Archive of articles, editorials, commentary, research and published material pertaining to Canadian insurance and policy management & administration.

• 2010
• IBAO: Ontarians Support Banning Credit Scoring from Home Insurance
• MajescoMastek acquires the assets of SEG Software, LLC
• Celent Report: North American Life Insurance New Business and Underwriting Systems, 2010
• ISO Announces Development of Driving Behavior Database
• New Decision Tool from ISO's Applied Informatix Unit Assesses Risk Using Driving Locations
• Lloyd's puts the i(Pad) into Insurance
• MIB Solutions' Audit Focus with Lab Data Provides Sharper Insights into Excess Mortality Risk
• DAS Canada rolls out new Canadian product: iter8
• Fast, Successful Implementation of Duck Creek Rating™ for Millers Mutual Group
• Hazardous research needed: Lloyd's
• MIB Solutions and Hooper Holmes Team Up to Provide Risk Management Solutions for the Life Insurance Industry
• RiskMeter.com Integrates RMS Data & Analytics into its Real-Time Natural Hazard Risk Report Service
• Guy Carpenter - GC Securities, a Division of MMC Securities Corp., Announces Completion of 144A Catastrophe Bond - Johnston Re Ltd.
• Novarica Research Documents Insurers' Experience with Core Systems Replacements and Finds Business Capabilities, Not Cost Reduction, Drive Projects
• Munich Re announces a new EDGE: Life, Disability and Critical Illness Underwriting Manual
• A New Report From Aite Group - Automatic Underwriting for Life Insurance: Driving Scale for New Markets
• Reinsurance Rates Continue to Decline at April 1, 2010 Reinsurance Renewals, Guy Carpenter Finds in Annual Review
• EagleEye Analytics Announces Successful Canadian Launch
• Price Optimization in Insurance: A Revolution in Progress: Report Published by Celent
• 2009
• ISO Offers ProMetrix Suite of Services to Help USA Insurers Assess, Measure, and Manage Risk
• Future-Proof: Considerations in Choosing Rating Solution Platforms: Report Published by Celent
• Co-operators Life Insurance Company Selects SunGard's iWorks to Help Grow Group Business
• ISO Introduces First Standard Green Building Upgrade Endorsement for Commercial Properties
• US Property/Casualty Rating Systems: ABCD Vendor View, 2009: Report Published by Celent
• USA Employers Face 10.5 Percent Health Care Cost Increases, Says Aon Consulting
• Accenture and RSA Expand Existing Application Outsourcing Agreement
• European Policy Administration Systems 2009: Life and Pension ABCD Vendor View: Report Published by Celent
• Getting the Value from Life Policy Administration Systems: The European Insurer Perspective: Report Published by Celent
• Novarica Report: Variable Annuity Writers Must Streamline to Thrive
• Camilion Solutions and Pitney Bowes Business Insight to Combine Best-in-Class Location Intelligence with Industry-Leading Modern Policy Administration for Superior Underwriting Functionality
• RMS Unveils New Models for Evaluating Earthquake Risk in North America
• FBL Financial Group, Inc. Cuts Policy Production Time by 80% and Improves Speed-to-Market with Automated Document Management: Oracle Insurance
• Helping to Avert Catastrophe Whitepaper: How Real-Time Location Intelligence Can Mitigate Exposure and Better Manage Risk: PBBI
• CAMICO Mutual Insurance Drives 50% of Direct New Policy Submissions via Cost-effective Online Channel: Oracle Insurance
• Aon Acquires IAO Actuarial Consulting Services
• State Auto Fuels 70% Growth in New Business Quotes and Drives Expansion into Web Channels with a Single Rating Engine: Oracle Insurance
• Penn National Insurance Improves Pricing Accuracy and Expands Business Opportunities with Single Rating Engine: Oracle Insurance


• 2008
• Allianz Uses eReinsure for Facultative Reinsurance
• Guy Carpenter's New Casualty Cat Model Helps Carriers Uncover Hidden Risks
• The next twelve months will see product development activity for most voluntary carriers according to recent Eastbridge survey
• Aon Capital Markets Places Industry's First Transaction Utilizing WindX Parametric Index Solution
• In a challenging business environment, Swiss Re will continue to focus on disciplined underwriting
• Tuesday's Earthquake In Los Angeles Was Expected: ICLR
• Celent: Will Your Policy Administration System Support Your Future Growth? Measuring Scalability and Performance (North American Life/Health Edition)
• The Business Case for Modern Policy Administration Systems: Lessons from Early Adopters - Report Published by Celent
• Celent looks at how a business rules management solution has enabled Travelers to increase the flow of new business by over 50%
• SunGard Launches WealthStation 3.0 For End-to-End Wealth Management Capabilities
• SunGard's iWorks Launches New Investment Management Solution
• Harford Mutual Goes Live With CGI'S Ratabase®
• Latest Release of CGI's Ratabase® Paving The Road To Future Competitive Advantage In The Insurance Rating Space
• Electronic Accounting and Settlement arrives in the Bermuda Reinsurance Market: AON
• Conning Research: Shifting Risk Profile in Nonstandard Auto Insurance Market
• CGI Clients Recognized as Celent Model Carriers
• CGI Signs Midwest Family Mutual Insurance Company As INSideOUT Beta Site
• Trillium Mutual Insurance Moves to Automate Personal Lines Underwriting using iter8
• Towers Perrin Releases Second Tillinghast Study on Older Age Mortality, Which Provides Experience Data, New Insights
• York Fire and Casualty uses iter8 Technology to Streamline Underwriting process


• 2007
• Automating Commercial Underwriting: Overview, Best Practices, and Case Studies Report Published by Celent
• SunGard's Insurance Solution, iWORKS, Goes Live at Discovery
• AIR Worldwide Releases Updated U.S. Terrorism Model
• ACE Group Uses eReinsure for Property Fac
• CGI Signs Two Contracts With Leading Midwestern and Southern Insurers
• North Waterloo Farmers Mutual Insurance Company contracts with iter8 for Broker Connectivity and Automated Underwriting Software
• Zurich Canada supports SFU climate change initiative
• European Policy Administration Systems 2007: Life Insurance Vendors: : Report Published by Celent
• Guy Carpenter Selects Pitney Bowes MapInfo(R) Technology to Power Its Risk Management Solution
• Pitney Bowes MapInfo Aligns with Exclusive Analysis to Provide Advanced Terrorism Risk Analytics
• SunGard Launches iWORKS Prophet Enterprise New Generation Actuarial Modelling
• SunGard's iWORKS COMPASS Identified As "Best Choice" for Many Carriers by Research and Advisory Firm, Celent
• Alberta Motor Association Insurance Company Selects SunGard's iWORKS Policy Administration Solution
• Health Insurers Show 14 Percent Increase in Use of MIB Data Six Companies Sign on as New Health Members
• Policy Administration Systems 2007: Life/Health/Annuity Vendors: Report Published by Celent
• US Annuities: Market Trends and Key Technology Issues: Report Published by Celent
• MSB, Actuarial Firm EMB to Partner on Risk-Based Modeling for Property Carriers
• Product competition is a concern for worksite executives, according to a recent Eastbridge study
• Raising the Bar: Tools and Tactics to Drive Life New Business Efficiency: Report Published by Celent
• L.J. Gosselin & Associates announces a Tuition Reimbursement Program from Echelon General Insurance Company
• IBM and Camilion Team Up to Deliver Product Lifecycle Management Solutions to Insurers
• Liberty Life Completes Phase I of Single Platform Project with SunGard’s iWORKS
• Tritech Offers Integrated Real-Time Access to Third Party Data Using SOA
• Aviva hits a hole-in-one with new insurance program
• Aon Re Global Launches Global Facultative Reinsurance Capabilities
• HUB International Personal Insurance Partners with Hiscox at Lloyd's of London to Provide Homeowners Insurance in High Risk Areas
• MIB’s Standards Based Customer Transactions Pass Milestone
• Manulife Investments hits $1 billion in sales for Canada's first Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit product
• Lloyd's Managing Agents Use Google Earth to Help Manage Portfolios
• SunGard Addresses NAVA Straight-Through Processing Initiative
• SunGard iWORKS Launches Assumed Reinsurance Solution
• SunGard Acquires Maxim Insurance Software Corporation
• SunGard iWORKS Launches ProCede Advantage
• EDS SOLCORP Unveils Latest INGENIUM® Release: Delivers enhancements to help insurers meet tax and regulatory requirements
• Industry's Ability to Predict Loss Drives Auto Insurance Rates Lower: I.I.I.
• Approaches for Policy System Conversions. No need to fear. - By Robert Symons, Tritech Financial Systems Inc.
• Setting the Bar: Key Metrics in Life New Business: Report Published by Celent


• 2006
• Magic Software Enters US$2.5 Million Agreement with Farm Mutual Reinsurance Plan
• Xactware's Network Processes Five Millionth Valuation
• PMI Canada and Solidifi Sign Agreement for Collateral Analytics Software
• Great American Insurance Company to Deploy Castek's Insure3
• CNA Streamlines Underwriting Process with Guidewire PolicyCenter
• MortgageBrokers.com selects Manulife Financial as retirement savings provider
• Study of Industry Executives by TowerGroup Examines Business, Technology Initiatives Relative to Life Insurance Underwriting
• TD Waterhouse Insurance Services Inc., has contracted EDS SOLCORP (EDS) WealthServ Insurance as its insurance Book of Record.
• CAA Insurance Company (Ontario) chooses Integrated Technology Solution from Tritech
• MSB Offers Next Generation RCT Home Valuation Technolog
• Kingsway Chooses Insurity for End-to-End Property-Casualty Solution
• Conning Research: Variable Annuity Companies Must Manage Product Complexity to Compete
• Unity Life of Canada Announces Administration Agreement With GeniSys
• Manulife Financial selects RBC Dexia Investor Services as Fund Administrator for its Cdn$26 billion portfolio
• CSC's Insurance New Business Software Launched at Foresters
• Whitehill Technologies' InSystems releases IStream Writer 1.2
• SunGard iWORKS Launches FrontTier 6.5: New Generation Policy Administration System
• ISO: Who Drives that Car? Where is it Driven? New Analytics Tool Enables Auto Insurers to Identify Missing Operators, Unstated Business Usage
• Guy Carpenter Publishes Comprehensive Study on Nanotechnology
• Manulife Financial to administer group retirement savings plans for Rogers Communications Inc. employees
• InspectionHost.com from ISI Launches with Rave Reviews from Initial Customers
• EDS SOLCORP Releases RADIENCE: Consolidation v2
• EDS SOLCORP Adds Retirement to RADIENCE Family
• SunGard Named As A Leading Insurance Vendor by Celent
• EDS SOLCORP Launches RADIENCE: New Offering Revolutionizes Policy Administration
• Pervasive Software Provides Internet Connectivity to MIB’s New Web-Enabled Business Solutions
• Camilion Announces New Releases of AuthorityUnderwriter, AuthorityOnline, and AuthorityTemplates
• MSB Announces Insurance-ready Home Data at Point of Sale
• eReinsure Expands Product Offering
• Mutual Concept Computer Group Inc. receives significant Investment Tax Credits from both Federal and Provincial governments
• Empire Life announces enhancements to Solution Series
• La Capitale adds Best Doctors(R) service to its group insurance plans
• White Paper: "Legacy Systems a CIOs Dilemma" by OARBIC
• New Lloyd's proposals to ensure right checks at right time
• Commercial Underinsurance & Solutions Topic of MSB Forum
• Web technology from MSB Integrates Hazard Data into Underwriting Workflow
• Desjardins Financial Security Goes Live with SunGard's iWORKS
• Sapiens INSIGHT™ Solution Selected by Majpor European Insurance Company to Transform Its Commercial Lines Operations
• Commonwealth Insurance Company and EQECAT Join Forces to Create an Integrated Catastrophe Management System (ICMST)
• New TowerGroup Research Suggests Method For Spending Your Way to Retirement Security
• Guy Carpenter and AIR Worldwide Join Forces to Develop First Ever Earthquake Catastrophe Model for Switzerland
• CFIB and Sun Life Financial launch group insurance products for self-employed workers and SMEs in Quebec
• Product Development Best Practices: Report Published by Celent
• Guy Carpenter Introduces Industry’s First Agricultural Risks Exposure Model for Italy’s Hail Insurance Market
• Basing Auto Insurance on Exact Odometer Readings: Another Pricing Innovation from Progressive Direct
• Arbella Mutual Insurance Company Reports Success with MSB's Tele-Estimating ServicesTM (TES)
• Cornerstone Appraisal Services and MSB Form Strategic Alliance: High value home inspection vendor joins forces with MSB
• eReinsure Reports Growth in 2005: Leading placing platform provides distribution effectiveness and productivity
• ACE USA Selects Camilion's AuthorityUnderwriter™ and ProductAuthority™
• SunGard Announces iWORKS NAVIGATOR: Insurance Sales and Administration Solution
• SunGard Announces Introduction of iWORKS
• Global IQX Renewal Solution Launched
• Camilion Solutions to Host Web Seminar on Online Sales and Underwriting
• InSystems Tracker 6.3 a Streamlines Insurance Product Development, Boosts Speed-to-Market
• Wawanesa Purchases WebWriter Inspection from Insurance Systems Inc. for Loss Control Operations
• AIR Worldwide Releases Winter Storm Model for the U.S.
• European Policy Administration Systems 2005: Life Insurance and Pension Vendors Report Published by Celent
• ISO'S iiX Unit Delivers Integrated Underwriting Solutions to Insurance Agents on IBQ Systems Platform


• 2005
• IMS announces successful completion of pilot program for Usage-Based Insurance with DBV-Winterthur of Germany
• i-flex to provide next-generation insurance solution based on components from Castek to Tokio Marine Management
• Assumption Life Selects SunGard’s COMPASS for Group Retirement and Segregated Funds
• RLI Selects ISI’s WebWriter Cargo to Launch New Marine Division
• ISO'S eLiens Unit Enhances Basic Loss-Payee and Mortgagee - Information Service With New Capability
• Camilion Solutions Wins Company-to-Watch Recognition
• Life Insurance Premium Rates to Continue Downward Trend, Reports I.I.I.
• CGI: INSideOUT comes to Canada
• Full MS/B Valuation Capability Soon Available in Compu-Quote Raters
• European Policy Administration Systems 2005: General Insurance vendors - Report Published by Celent
• The Progressive Direct Group of Insurance Companies Launches A Research Program to Gather Driving Habit Data That Could Revolutionize How Policies are Priced
• New Consumer Home Valuation Tool From MS/B Is Good News For P & C Industry
• Camilion Solutions Acquires AbovePlan Corporation; Appoints Ross Orrett as CEO of Camilion
• Quest Diagnostics to Acquire LabOne for $934 Million in Cash
• ISO Acquires eLIENS From Xtria To Automate Insurance Coverage Notifications to Lenders
• AIR Worldwide Analysis Determines Potential Impact of Climate Change on Insured Losses
• Policy Administration Systems 2005: Life/Health/Annuity Vendors Report Published by Celent: Detailed Profiles and Comparisons of 18 Systems
• Policy Administration Systems 2005: P/C Commercial Lines Vendors Report Published by Celent - Detailed Profiles and Comparisons of 24 Commercial Lines Systems
• SOLCORP / INGENIUM 6.6 Released to Provide Insurers With High-Performance, Full-Function Policy Administration
• Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies Select Sapiens INSIGHT™ For Property & Casualty Solution Suite
• eReinsure Receives Four ACORD Awards Leading reinsurance platform recognized for work on XMLintegration
• Eastbridge study finds that hospital indemnity and supplemental medical products are fast growing
• Guy Carpenter Publishes Survey of Specialty Program Issuing Carriers
• EDS-SOLCORP Releases SOLCORP / ProductXpress 2.4
• Policy Administration Systems 2005: P/C Personal Lines Vendors Report Published by Celent - Detailed Profiles and Comparisons of 19 Personal Lines Systems
• Camilion Solutions Introduces Product Lifecycle Management for Financial Services
• Insurance Systems Inc. “Intensely Focused” on IASA Conference
• CSC Launches Life Underwriting Strategic Technology Program With Five Insurers
• EDS-SOLCORP Releases Radience: Consolidation to Streamline Life Insurance Customer Service Operations
• Camilion Solutions Joins IBM PartnerWorld Network for Insurance
• Sapiens INSIGHT™ For Reinsurance Launched In the U.S.
• Desjardins Financial Security Selects SunGard System to Administer its Group Retirement Business
• Middle East Expansion for Insurance Systems Inc.
• SOLCORP releases SOLCORP / INGENIUM® on the Microsoft .NET framework
• ISO Expands A-PLUS Auto Database to Cross-check Vehicles Stolen and Shipped from Mexico
• Eastbridge study looks at the operational best practices of worksite carriers.
• Risk Classification and Underwriting Criteria, Non-Payment Terminations, and Fee Filing Guideline: FSC of Ontario
• Report of the Task Force on Automobile Insurance Issues: Canadian Institute of Actuaries
• Swiss Re achieves another successful renewal as attractive pricing levels maintained
• Guy Carpenter Publishes Marine & Energy Reinsurance Review Report 2005
• SOLCORP signs global exclusive rights and option agreement with Winsoft Software, Inc.
• Wisconsin Insurer Goes Live with Phase iii of new Integrated Technology Solution from Tritech
• Mutual Concept Computer Group Inc. Acquires Bralar Software Inc.
• WebWriter Ocean Cargo Application Keeping Pace with Industry Issues: Insurance Systems Inc.
• U.S. Tort Costs Increased in 2003, But at a More Moderate Pace than in Prior Years, According to Tillinghast Study
• Regulators and Industry Champion Speed to Market Imperative: InSystems
• LOMA Research Report Explores the Challenges Involved in Separate Accounts
• Ontario Auto insurance rates for first, second, third and fourth quarters of 2004: FSCO
• Policy Administration Systems Overview: 2005 - Report Published by Celent
• Phoning It In: Teleunderwriting Comes of Age: Report Published by Celent


• 2004
• The Clarion Call of Business Process Outsourcing: GeniSys
• Kinnect obtains second ACORD certification
• Insurance Systems Inc. Continues Expansion with New Office in Quebec and Staff Appointments
• IBM to acquire Liberty Insurance Services from RBC Insurance
• Speed-to-Market Seminar January 19, 2005, Chicago: InSystems
• Skandia leverages SOLCORP product implementation platform to accelerate time-to-market
• Sapiens Joins ISO's Preferred Partner Program to Integrate ISO Rating Service with Policy Insight Policy Administration Solution
• Sapiens is Recognized as a Leading Vendor in the Global Life Insurance Solutions Market
• Guy Carpenter Introduces Reveal™: Refined Exposure Rating Model for Writers of Workers Compensation Risk
• American Driving Records Delivers Instant Motor Vehicle Records Through IVANS Transformation Station™
• Camilion Solutions and ISO Partner to Deliver Next Generation Underwriting Solution
• Mutual Fire Insurance Company of B.C. finds the right technology solution in AIS from Garvin-Allen
• LOMA Research Report Examines the Changing Reinsurance Industry
• Configuring the Agile Organization: How to Reduce Time to Market by 50%: Sapiens Whitepaper
• Sapiens International Engages Top Global Insurance Executives
• MIB´s e-Services Corp. Introduces New Tool to Enhance Life Underwriting Audits
• BMO Life Chooses GeniSys to Provide Policy Administration Services for its Term Life Insurance Product, DirectTerm
• AVIVA UK road-tests revolutionary new motor insurance
• Offshoring will help U.S. Mortgage Lenders Lower Total Origination Costs per Loan 6% by 2008: TowerGroup
• Innovative Auto Insurance Discount Program to be Available to 5,000 Minnesotans: Progressive Insurance
• Enterprise Underwriting: Strategic Direction - A White Paper from Camilion Solutions, August 2004
• GeniSys is pleased to announce Mr. Ross Morton as the new Chairman of the Board
• Camilion Solutions Introduces Camilion Underwriter
• Major USA Regional Carrier to Implement Policy INSIGHT: Sapiens
• CarProof now includes Experian Automotive Vehicle History Data
• Kinnect Among First to Meet New ACORD Standard
• Camilion Solutions Announces Enhanced Enterprise Product Management Offering
• Swiss Re investigates the opportunities and risks of nanotechnology from an insurance perspective
• Hannover Re signs on with eReinsure
• Camilion Solutions Named a Top 25 Canadian Up and Comer
• MDA To Acquire Major U.S. Information Products Market Leader Marshall & Swift / Boeckh
• Foresters Licenses CSC's Insurance New Business Software
• Wawanesa Enhances Policy Administration Systems with SunGard’s FrontTier Solution
• GeniSystems.ca Services Launches New Brand Strategy
• Four Insurers License CSC'S Visual Product/Modeling System
• CompuOffice Software Inc. Introduces Multi-Quoter™ Software for Use by Life Insurers in Product Development and Pricing
• Benfield to Use eReinsure Platform to Manage Facultative Reinsurance Solutions for Customers
• Guy Carpenter Develops Industry’s First Frequency and Severity Model for Analyzing U.S. Publicly Traded Directors & Officers Liability Risks
• Best Doctors selects GeniSys® to provide policy administration services for their Best Doctors Service Card.
• Insurers announce five-point action plan to lower auto insurance rates in response to New Brunswick government pressure and public outcry
• GeniSys® is selected as a finalist for Outsourcing Center’s prestigious Outsourcing Excellence Awards.
• Property/Casualty Reinsurance Cedent Technology Strategies: Report Published by Celent
• GeniSys and Transact One together unveil multi-purpose information management tools
• GeniSys and Direct Response Insurance Administrative Services Inc. (DRIASI) enter into strategic alliance to provide comprehensive administrative services to life insurance companies.
• "Virtual P&C Insurance Solution Centre" Announced by Tritech


• 2003
• SOLCORP Awarded Multi-Year Contract With Great-West Life; Great-West Selects SOLCORP / INGENIUM as Strategic Technology Platform
• Product Guarantees: The Price of Doing Business for Insurers: Tillinghast - Towers Perrin Survey
• The Return to Underwriting Governance. By Sorin Rogojinaru
• Sun Life Financial's GRS business to administer Falconbridge savings and profit sharing plans
• Iain Saville appointed Lloyd's Head of Business Process Reform
• New Eastbridge Study Finds Carriers May Need New Skills to Offer Voluntary Supplemental Medical Products
• Web Portals: Tactical or Strategical? - By Anthony Kumnick, OARBIC
• Sun Life Financial's GRS business sets industry benchmark with ISO 9001:2000 certification
• Using Data Mining for Rate Making in the Insurance Industry: SAS Institute
• Conning Research: Car Owners Subsidizing Premiums For Light Truck and SUV Owners
• Equitable Life of Canada and Penad Pension Services Limited Sign DC Pension Administration Software Agreement
• eReinsure® System Selected by AIG Member Companies for Online Placement and Management of Facultative Reinsurance
• Blue chip partners to help deliver Kinnect: Lloyds
• ACORD and Lloyd's Market Association Unveil New Risk Exposure Standards
• CSC Introduces Advanced Software "Exceed" for Large P&C Insurers Worldwide
• Wisconsin Insurer Goes Live with Tritech/Picom Integrated Technology Solution
• CNA Purchases WebWriter™ Solution for Cargo Insurance from Insurance Systems Inc. (ISI)
• Camilion Solutions Opens New Office In New York City
• Automating Commercial Insurance Underwriting Not Automatically Profitable: Conning Study
• AIG Small Business Underwriting Center Introduces Product Recommender, a New Web-enabled Risk Profiling Tool
• U.S. Insurance Industry Loses $13.7 billion Annually Due to Auto Premium Rating Error: Quality Planning Corp
• inreon Reinsurance Marketplace to be Discontinued
• Policy Works® /Broker Edition 5.3 is here! - Tec4 Systems Inc.
• Camilion Solutions Selected by MFXchange Holdings, Inc. for Enterprise Product Management (EPM)
• Camilion Solutions Announces Insurance Innovator 3.0 for Enterprise Product Management (EPM)
• Iter8 Provides Product Update Information in their latest Newsletter
• iter8 Announces EDI Contract with Pembridge
• Insurance Innovation with Enterprise Product Management: White Paper by Camilion Solutions
• iter8, Compu-Quote Provide End-to-End Portal Solution
• iter8 Completes EDI Project for CGU
• Fireman’s Fund to use eReinsure™ Platform for Facultative Reinsurance
• Leading Asian Reinsurers Prepare to Write Business Online: inreon
• Older UK Motorists See Falling Premiums: Tillinghast - Towers Perrin
• Jumbo Jet Underwriting Takes Off: Canada Life
• New Marsh & McLennan Securities Study Says Catastrophe Bond Market Reached Record Issuance of $1.2 Billion in 2002
• Japanese Insurers Support Industry's Online Marketplace: inreon
• Ecclesiastical Launches WebWriter™ Solution for Yachts from ISI
• CSC Adds Advanced Life Insurance Underwriting Systems and Services to nbAccelerator
• RMS Launches First Hurricane Model to Include Effects of Extratropical Transition
• Renewals Drive Growth in On-line Trading Activity: inreon
• eReinsure Leads Online Reinsurance Industry with 20,000 Submissions in 2002
• Bermuda Leads Expansion of inreon Reinsurance Trading Platform
• TEC4's Policy Works receives Award of Merit


• 2002
• China Pacific Insurance Corp. Selects Sherwood For Pilot Business Process Automation Project
• The Evolution of Rule-Based Life Insurance Underwriting Systems: Report by Celent
• Life Closed Books: An Opportunity to Increase Profits; by Raj Vaswani, Sapiens
• IBC Uninsured Vehicles (UV) Project Update -- Legislation Introduced October 30, 2002
• German Broking Firm is inreon's 100th Member; ACORD Standards Certification
• Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Goes Live with Sherwood International's Group Administration Insurance Solution
• Iter8 Announces the First Issue of their Newsletter
• CSC Awarded $80 Million Applications Outsourcing Agreement by Manulife USA
• Sherwood Announces Substantial Contract Wins and Reveals New Global Headquarters
• inreon Provides Exclusive Access to Leading Reinsurance Capacity and adds Facultative Liability Product Range
• IBC Begins Live Testing of Critical Coverage Reporting for Ontario Auto Insurance
• Conning Research: Life Insurers May Need to Break from Traditional Underwriting Process to Create Competitive Advantage
• LAWPRO(R) expands coverage, reduces premiums for 2003
• iter8 Incorporated and Compu-Quote Inc. Join Forces
• Gore Completes First Phase of Underwriting Automation Project: iter8
• AIM Underwriting Agencies Launches iter8 Technology Solution
• iter8 Helps Insurers Reduce Regulatory Costs
• Lessons Learned Through Six Years of Component-Based Development, by Michael Sparling, Castek (as published in "Communications of the ACM")
• MIB Group, Inc.Launches 1st Ever Advertising Campaign
• SSQ General Insurance Inc. Selects Sherwood International's FrontTier and ProCede Insurance Solutions
• Castek Secures $22.9 Million (US) in Series C Financing
• TransGuard to Implement FrontTier and ProCede Insurance Solutions from Sherwood International
• inreon Membership Grows by 100% Plus in Six Months.
• ri3k set to revolutionise life reinsurance market
• Kingsway Announces Approval of Ontario Private Passenger Rate Increases
• Royal & SunAlliance Introduces Think-Tank for Specialty Products
• CSC's VANTAGE-ONE System Enhanced for Japanese Market; Manulife's Japanese Subsidiary First to Use Annuity System
• More than 5,000 Reinsurance Submissions Presented on eReinsure.com Online Platform
• Sherwood International Launches AMARTA Life Fast-Start for Rapid Development and Implementation of New Life Insurance Products.
• InSystems and FileNET Announce the Integration of InSystems Calligo with FileNET Acenza for Insurance
• CSC Delivers Two New Property and Casualty Insurance Software Releases; iSolutions Tools and S3+ Billing Offer New Capabilities
• Sherwood International Secures Services Contract with New York Life Insurance Company.
• Sherwood International Secures PROCEDE Sale with Leading U.S. Insurance Group
• InSystems and AscendantOne Form Marketing Alliance
• New York Life International Chooses Sherwood International's Amarta Life for Global Expansion
• Sherwood International Secures Additional Contract with New York Life Insurance
• Sherwood International Strengthens Its Position in the Caribbean With Co-Operators General Insurance Contract
• IBC launches second test of critical coverage reporting
• Dominion of Canada General Insurance has been successful in its bid to have a discount approved by Ontario's insurance regulator for teen drivers in the "I Promise" Program.
• Sun Life Financial to outsource UK insurance back office operations to Marlborough Stirling


• 2001
• AXA Corporate Solutions commits to using Inreon for placing its facultative reinsurance worldwide
• Profiling the Vendors of Web-enabled Policy Administration Systems: Report Published by Celent
• AIS is changing the way insurance companies do business: Garvin-Allen Solutions
• Time. Get Connected Now. As the first vendor to provide proven connectivity to the CSIO Portal, Sherwood International has been working with our forward thinking clients like Markham General Insurance to build and test this technology. In just a few short weeks we can have you connected with guaranteed rates utilizing CSIO XML communication standards.
• Castek Software Factory, Inc., a provider of software systems for financial services organizations, announced today that it was honoured the "Top Product Launch of the Year Award" by Branham Group Inc. for its Insure³ (insure cubed) family of insurance software for Property & Casualty insurers.
• Commercial properties have come a long way in the past 20 years. So-called "intelligent" buildings and industrial sites that make use of advances in technologies and design approaches have helped risk managers and insurers alike. The results are healthier environments, better safety and security for employees and visitors, and effective protection of such high-value assets as computer equipment, R&D labs, and distribution centers. This progress on the "hard" side of securing assets has helped achieve gradual reductions in premises injuries, losses and litigation. And yet progress has been slower in other "soft" security-related areas -- such as putting in place processes that will reduce liability issues related to inadequate security and help companies and their insurers defend premises liability lawsuits. By Robert M. Figlio, CAP Index Inc. published in CI Canadian Insurance Magazine August 2001.
• Erie Selects Castek's Insure³ for Core Policy Administration Quicker Product-Delivery, Enhanced Service to Agents/Policyholders
• Sherwood International, a leading supplier of information technology solutions to the global insurance market, announced today it has partnered with CSIO and will be one of the first vendors to provide guaranteed real-time quotes to the CSIO (Centre for Study of Insurance Operations) Insurance Portal, an Internet-based comparative quoting services available to brokers and insurers.
• Auto insurers are looking at more than a consumer's driving record when determining rates; they are also examining how drivers manage their finances, according to a recent Conning & Company study. Auto insurers are using credit data, a proxy for how one manages his/her assets and finances, as a key predictor of future claims costs.
• Insurance Systems Inc. announces commencement of phase 2 for the www.OMMni.com product.
• COUNTRY Insurance & Financial Services Contracts Castek's Insure³ Provides Product Flexibility, Functionality, Scalability
• Acquisition of Concise Technologies Inc. Extends Sherwood's Property & Casualty Insurance Product Portfolio. Hartford Conn., April 30.
• ISI's new flagship product Webwriter has been completed and is ready for implementation in Europe.
• Castek Software Factory Inc., a provider of enterprise-wide processing systems for financial services, is pleased to announce that National Grange Mutual Insurance Company (NGM) has licensed Castek's Insure³ policy administration and claims processing systems.