Everyone at Insurance-Canada.ca would like to extend a sincere thank-you to all who submitted ICTA nominations this year. There were more than three times as many as last year, and all were of high quality. The breadth and depth of the uses of technology is exciting.
The seven members of the jury held a technology-enabled meeting to review the nominations and then voted, selecting the following finalists in each category.
P&C Distributors
- AP Reid for ZipSure, a customer-facing fully automated insurance service targeted at tenants of larger landlords;
- Donovan Insurance Brokers for their overall use of technology, encompassing customer-facing and market-facing applications, and automated support for staff, allowing a focus on quality customer service;
- Ingle International for the technology they use to develop and operate micro-sites used by school administrators and student customers.
Insurers
- SGI Canada for the pioneering work implementing standards for downloading of broker copy of policy declaration pages and broker memos as part of their daily EDI download transactions;
- The Economical Insurance Group for a business location intelligence platform allowing underwriters to map a location, analyze current in-force policies, recognize key exposures and evaluate aggregate risk;
- Unica Insurance (formerly York Fire & Casualty) for their project to directly connect Broker transactions from the BMS to Unica's systems.
Suppliers
- Allianz Global Assistance for its implementation of an online claims portal resulting in a high level of adoptions;
- RMS for iClarify, a validation and valuation tool that provides brokers and insurers with residential property intelligence;
- Zycomp + MASTERCOM for the technology development and integration allowing downloading of broker copy of policy declaration pages and broker memos as part of their daily EDI download transactions. These are automatically filed at the broker without intervention.
Congratulations to all our finalists! The jury will meet again in January to select the winner in each category.
All finalists will be featured in the February Technology issue of CI Top Broker Magazine. The winners will be announced at the ICTA Awards Luncheon during the 10th annual Insurance-Canada.ca Technology Conference on Monday, March 5.
