Josh discusses Microsoft’s Office and technology stack in the marketplace and financial services. As a result of Microsoft’s deepening relationship with ACORD and the vendor community, the company was able to produce InfoPath 2003, part of the Office 2004 suite. InfoPath provides ACORD forms and a seamless experience with deep XML integration for the end user to leverage data. Bill, a former independent agent who was on the board of directors of ACORD, discusses Microsoft’s role in web services and the insurance value chain.
John, principal of Norwood & Associates, has been an lobbyist for insurance and financial services sectors across several decades. Norwood offered a focused looking at the all-important workers’ compensation issue, and he gave his thoughts on health insurance exchanges. In fact, Norwood forecast that 2012 will rank as an important one when it comes to [...]
John Norwood is one of California’s best known legislative advocates for the insurance and financial services sectors. Norwood spoke to the Insurance Journal about legislation and regulation, including a proposal by a consumer advocacy group that would establish prior approval for healthcare insurance and would make major changes to auto insurance and homeowners insurance in [...]
For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to guide disabled veterans into careers in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal experiences with disabled family members. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson, the two share their dream of an organization [...]
This year the Entrepreneurial Insurance Alliance (EIA), sponsored by MarketScout, named Vertafore and Risk Metrics, as winners of it 2011 Entrepreneurial Award in technology. Vertafore’s WorkSmart and Risk Metrics’ Insurance 360 technology products received recognition from the EIA as being some of the industry’s most innovative concepts in technology. Each year, the EIA receives hundreds [...]
Retail and wholesale brokers face the challenge —and opportunity— of redefining their relationships and value proposition in today’s changing insurance distribution world, according to Glenn Hargrove, president, MarketScout Wholesale, Dallas, Tex. In this interview from the recent Western Insurance Agents Association’s Insurance Industry Roundtable in California, Hargrove outlines the value proposition of agents and brokers [...]
The medical liability market continues to perform well even as the nation struggles to implement health care reform. Robert Allen, senior vice presidents at Torus Insurance, says many health care institutions are implementing new strategies to be successful in today’s health care reform world. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andrea Ortega-Wells from the annual [...]
Interview with Transcal Associates CEO, Mark Scott, at the NAPSLO 2003 Annual Meeting
Inside IMCA Interview with Jennifer Presley at the 2005 Annual Meeting Communcation Roundup
Insurance experts hungry for new business have found the mobile food truck business to be one of the healthier growth markets in the past few years. Technology can help to service these mobile customers quickly and efficiently. Yet to be really successful in this program business, Matt Carlson, vice president of Risk Strategies Co., says [...]