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Swiss Army knives are designed to do just about anything—from cutting to sawing to drilling to poking to scraping and on and on. But when something new needs to be done, if the gadget isn’t there, you...
Trends & Tech
Last week I decided to use my new Clear card. Clear cards are issued by a private firm and are supposed to make the process of passing through airport security less painful. To obtain a Clear card, yo...
Stats Watch
Despite the problems in the economy, many insurers believe the time is right to consider modernizing their legacy systems. In a report written for Celent by Catherine Stagg-Macey, a senior analyst in ...
Departments
Industry Intelligence
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has announced the System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing (SERFF) reached a milestone during the month of November, surpassing 500,000 fil...
The Fireman’s Fund Knowledge Site (www.knowledge.firemansfund.com) was designed to present climate change and sustainability issues from different perspectives while focusing on proven solutions and c...
Business Solutions
Too often property/casualty insurer Century-National Insurance (CNI) was inhibited from moving into newer distribution channels and technologies. Significant portions of its transaction processing wer...
Top Tech
Shortly after Thad DeBerry joined Western World Insurance Group as vice president of IT five years ago, he began losing sleep over one issue: the company’s lack of a business continuity plan. “When I ...