FIS Software, a provider of enterprise level end to end insurance policy administration systems, today announced that Binghamton, New York based Columbian Financial Group (CFG) has completed the implementation of FIS’s Agency Management System (AMS), a component of FIS’s flagship ALIS policy administration platform. With AMS, CFG now manages its independent agent workforce using a [...]

Medversant Technologies LLC, the company that changed the paradigm in provider credentialing with AutoVerifi™ (U.S. Patent 7,529,682), announces the addition of contract management to its on-demand Integrated Provider Management Platform (IPM). Medversant’s IPM with AutoVerifi dramatically improves the way healthcare organizations manage their provider related business processes.
“We tackled the hardest problem first and enabled continuous [...]

Assurant Employee Benefits, a national carrier of life and disability insurance and dental coverage, today announces the formation of a new Administrative Services department in Seattle, Wa.
The new department was formed with the acquisition of certain capabilities, technology assets, and employees of a Seattle-based Third Party Administrator (TPA), Administrative Systems, Inc., with which the company [...]

In response to the New Era of Risk Management(TM) in which global businesses are currently operating, OpenPages, the leading provider of integrated risk management solutions for global companies, today unveiled ten best practices to help companies appropriately prepare for a new era of risk and regulatory oversight.
– Following the release of the bank stress test [...]

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* Oracle Insurance today introduced Oracle® Revenue Management and Billing for Insurance, providing insurers the robust billing capabilities necessary to deliver streamlined, convenient billing, payment and collections processes, and improve service to customers and distribution channels.
* Oracle’s new solution [...]

AQS, Inc., a provider of policy administration systems for property/casualty insurance, and FirstBest® Systems, Inc., developer of advanced Underwriting Management Systems(TM) (UMS) that enable property and casualty (P&C) insurance carriers to profit from better underwriting, have announced a strategic alliance to deliver AQS’ comprehensive rating and policy administration system with FirstBest’s agent portal and underwriting [...]

MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, today announced that it has been selected to deliver its Alineo ™ 2.0 collaborative health care management platform to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (BCBSKC). The two parties have agreed to begin implementation in June. The arrangement reinforces MEDecision’s position as [...]

Allied World Assurance Company (U.S.) Inc., a member company of Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, announced that Tom Rocca, Assistant Vice President, General Casualty, Brokerage, will be participating in a panel at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Risk Management Seminar to be held on June 7-10, 2009 in San Jose, California. The panel, taking [...]

ACE Westchester, the U.S.-based wholesale-focused property and casualty operation of the ACE Group, today introduced a new product line, providing coverage and services for hazardous material (hazmat) and hazardous waste transporters. Underwriting will be based in Philadelphia and Roger Murphy, Assistant Vice President, has been appointed to lead these efforts, reporting to Barbara Deas, Senior [...]

C.V. Starr & Company, a subsidiary of C. V. Starr & Co., Inc., is pleased to announce that it will begin offering its Resolute PortfolioSM products, designed specifically for Private and Public Companies as well as Not For Profit Organizations, through Starr Indemnity & Liability Company (Starr Indemnity) for business effective June 1, 2009 and [...]