Podcast Center
Welcome to the PropertyCasualty360 Podcast Center, featuring ongoing discussions and professional insights on the latest trends impacting the industry.
August 01, 2011
The Billing Cycle: What Carriers Are Doing to Improve this Business OperationInsurance carriers are creating some positive examples for the industry through the use of new billing systems. Celent's Mike Fitzgerald discusses their value and their impact on several areas of the enterprise in this podcast with Robert Regis Hyle, editor of Tech Decisions and technology channel editor for PropertyCasualty360.com.
July 25, 2011
Examining the Benefits of a New Policy Admin SystemThe push to upgrade legacy policy administration systems has been going on for the last decade, but the newer systems have significant upgrades over systems just five years old. John Pettit, president and CEO of Adaptik, talks about policy systems in a podcast with Bob Hyle, editor-in-chief of Tech Decisions...
July 14, 2011
Paying Attention to Your Brand Through Social MediaAre you protecting your company's brand through social media? Tower group's research director Karen Pauli discusses what insurance carriers need to be doing in terms of social media and how they can help their agency partners.
July 11, 2011
Information Overload: Gaining Control of Your DataIn this podcast, Frank Petersmark, CIO advocate for X by 2, discusses what insurance carriers are doing to gain control over the increasing amount of data being collected and how they are turning it into actionable information.
July 11, 2011
Information Overload: Gaining Control of Your DataIn this podcast, Frank Petersmark, CIO advocate for X by 2, discusses what insurance carriers are doing to gain control over the increasing amount of data being collected and how they are turning it into actionable information.
June 30, 2011
Technology Transformation: IT's Affect on the Insurance Industry's FutureEuan King, CEO North America for the Innovation Group, discusses key transformation issues for the insurance industry with Bob Hyle, editor-in-chief of Tech Decisions magazine and technology channel editor for PropertyCasualty360.com
June 23, 2011
IT Outsourcing: Insurers Examine Options for Controlling CostsLeah Hollstegge, manager of Ward Group, discusses the results of a recent Ward Group benchmarking study on IT outsourcing in which the benchmarking company reports more than half of carriers are achieving negligible cost savings.
June 23, 2011
Kitty Ambers and Rick Gilman--PodcastKitty Ambers, AIMS Society executive director, talks with Rick Gilman of the Personal Lines Growth Alliance, on the importance of marketing and sales training for independent agents.
May 18, 2011
Steve Anderson on "Taking Back Personal Lines"--PodcastSteve Anderson, executive editor of The Anderson Agency Report (TAAR), talks with Rick Gilman of the Personal Lines Growth Alliance, on how independent agents can "take back personal lines" from direct writer and online competitors.
May 10, 2011
Arbella's "Distractology 101" Shows Young Drivers Dangers of DistractionsNow in its second year, Arbella Insurance's "Distractology 101" program uses high-tech simulators to provide teen drivers with a real-life look at the dangers of distracted driving. AA&B Editor Laura Toops spoke with Arbella CEO John Donohue on the program.