Winning the Battle for Consumers, Online Interactivity: The Carrier's Secret Weapon [ Source: Priority Data ]

July 2010- Millions of consumers who want to work directly with an agent are still beginning their search for insurance quotes online. They are tech savvy, and expect to find user-friendly, interactive websites that deliver the information they want quickly, without having to pick up the phone or wait for a call. Regional and super-regional carriers have been slow to offer an option to consumers who research online. They have relied on their independent agents entirely. This ...

Unitrin Business Insurance Launches Innovative Commercial Package Policy with CSC's BPO Services [ Source: CSC ]

March 2007- Unitrin Inc., one of the top 100 US property and casualty insurance providers, committed to increasing its commercial lines business through its’ Unitrin Business Insurance (UBI) network of 1,000 agents. To make it as easy as possible for these agents to write new business, UBI wanted to be able to push insurance services out to them over the Web. But with a legacy system that could not be easily Web-enabled, management had to look outside the company ...

State Auto Expands into New Markets and Keeps Pace with Technology, Fueled by CSC's Software [ Source: CSC ]

March 2006- Over the past decade, State Auto’s growth was fueled by four acquisitions – Milbank, Midwest Security, Farmers Casualty and Meridian insurance companies. The last acquisition, which was migrated to CSC’s Series II system in 2005, pushed State Auto above the million-policy mark, boosting revenues to more than $1 billion in P&C premium. Now more than 3,200 independent agents in 27 states throughout the Midwest and Southwest are doing business with State Auto. The company wanted to simplify ...

Norwich Union Extends Processing to Brokers, Call Operations and Banks [ Source: CSC ]

March 2006- After a series of high-profile mergers, Norwich Union needed to consolidate large books of business on an administration system capable of processing 5 million policies. Rather than cobble together multiple legacy systems, Norwich Union talked to CSC about co-developing a Web browser-based administration system. Collaborating with Norwich Union and three other carriers in the United States, CSC invested three years and $28 million in CSC’s Exceed, an integrated set of software components designed to extend, enhance ...

Advancing Agent Connectivity: The 5 levels of maturity [ Source: iter8 Inc. ]

June 2008- Excellence in agent connectivity is rarely, if ever achieved. Rather it is a work in progress, one which is in flux as the carrier develops from one level of maturity to the next, always increasing effectiveness and efficiency, and thereby, profitability. Fortunately the cost-benefit ratio of advancing agent connectivity is highly favorable for the carrier, with relatively small investments, wisely deployed, yielding substantial returns in short order. Agent Connectivity is without a doubt the most ...

Excellenece in Insurance Distribution: Not for the Faint of Heart [ Source: Adobe ]

October 2007- Join us to learn about solutions in the marketplace that can overcome the challenges of an ever-increasing time-sensitive distribution landscape.

Blue Frog Solutions ADMServer Product Profile administration tool [ Source: Blue Frog Solutions ]

October 2007- The ADMServer Product Profile administration tool is a module of the full ADMServer suite. The PPFA Administration Tool is designed to allow Carriers to load and manage all of their product and sales rules (including Product, Fund, Rider, and Commission information) in a single location managed and controlled by your business analysts, not your technical staff. Product Profile Administrator allows you to query the information in the database or update other internal systems automatically; in ...