AS U.S. domiciled companies increasingly do business abroad, more agents and brokers are discovering a need to expand their customary product offering beyond property and liability insurance to the oldest line of all: marine insurance. In particular,
Combining elements of workflow, enterprise application integration, document management, and business rules, business process management (BPM) claims to solve old problems in a new way. ...
Outsourcing Claims Could Be Risky Business TPAs may streamline work, cut costs short term, but poor vendor could ruin planMany risk managers believe they can ...
Industry Hurricane Loss May Hit $32 BInsurance industry losses from four hurricanes that devastated parts of Florida and other Southeastern states could go well above ...
Some Carriers Waive Multiple Florida DeductiblesWhile superstitious Floridians may recoil from discussions of ramifications of the 2004 storm season with more than five weeks still ...
Insurers Unite: Use Tech To Trap Comp Cheats Carriers tap same system used to alert banks about suspicious credit card useInsurers are banding together to ...
Technology Boosts Agent Response To Storm When Hurricane Charley struck, agency had backups in place to stay in businessIn some peoples' minds, technology failed or ...
Hurricanes Could Boost Oil Rig Reinsurance Costs Ivan put a chill on a softening insurance lineThe effects of Hurricane Ivan might halt the softening of ...
Danger Lurks In Construction Defect Market Residential contractors, homebuilders getting less for more, brokers warnA construction specialist wouldn't walk onto a job site without a ...
Pricing Picture Uncertain After Jeanne Hammers Florida Unprecedented fourth hurricane in single season could send homeowners rates soaringHurricane Jeanne the fourth massive storm to hit ...