Meet FirstBest in Kissimmee, FL, June 7-9, 2009
BEDFORD, MA, May 27, 2009 – FirstBest® Systems, Inc., developer of advanced Underwriting Management Systems™ (UMS) that enable property and casualty insurance carriers to profit from
better underwriting and collaboration, announced today that FirstBest is exhibiting and speaking at the IASA 2009 Educational Conference and Business Show. FirstBest executives will be available to discuss FirstBest UMS™, a next-generation underwriting workstation combined with a rich agent portal. Additionally, FirstBest will speak on a panel and with Amerisafe, Inc., a specialty writer of workers' compensation insurance for hazardous industries, presenting Amerisafe’s use of UMS to transform the company’s underwriting operations and collaboration with its agents.
FirstBest will also attend IASA Technology Achievement Award ceremony on Monday, June 8th at 8:00 a.m. as FirstBest customer ICW Group is awarded the first honorable mention for the results derived from their successful implementation of the FirstBest UMS for workers compensation insurance.
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FirstBest’s Joe Pilkerton, COO, Julian Pelenur, CTO, and Meira Primes, VP of Marketing, will be available for meetings at the FirstBest Booth, #313. |
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The Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, Kissimmee, FL |
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FirstBest will be exhibiting at booth #313 during show hours: |
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Sunday, June 7: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
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Monday, June 8: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
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Tuesday, June 9: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
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On June 8th, FirstBest will also hold two Vendor Connect Tours, open to all attendees who sign up; |
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Emerging Technologies, #883 (9:25 – 10:35 a.m.) |
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Underwriting, #987 (10:45 – 11:55 a.m) |
| SPEAKING: |
On June 8th, FirstBest customer, Vincent Gagliano, Vice President of Operations Analysis, of Amerisafe, Inc., and Julian Pelenur, CTO of FirstBest, will share ideas and lessons learned from a case study titled “Achieving ROI through Better Underwriting.” (Room #274: Sarasota, from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.) |
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On June 9th, FirstBest’s Ed Gray will participate in the panel session “OMG, My Talent Pool is Changing, What Should I Do?” Part of the Insurance Accounting, Risk Management, and Finance program, the session will be led by Deborah Smallwood of SMA, with additional panelists from LexisNexis and Glatfelter Insurance Group. (Room #503: Sanibel 1-2, from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.) |
The Insurance Accounting & Systems Association, Incorporated (IASA) is one of the insurance industry's largest and most well-represented trade associations. The IASA 2009 Annual Educational Conference and Business Show provides the most comprehensive educational program and business show targeted for financial and technology professionals in the insurance and financial services industry. If offers an unparalleled forum for education that will enhance insurer your knowledge, your career potential and the industry. For more information about IASA 2009, visit http://www.iasa.org/Members/Content/NavigationMenu/2009AnnualConference/default.htm
To arrange a meeting with FirstBest at IASA, please contact us at 781.863.6027 or marketing@firstbest.com. For more information, visit http://www.firstbest.com/news-meet-us.htm.
About FirstBest
FirstBest® Systems, Inc. delivers advanced Underwriting Management Systems™ (UMS) that enable insurance companies to write more business and write better business. The FirstBest UMS™ combines a next-generation underwriting workstation with a rich agent portal for commercial lines carriers. Insurers can achieve greater speed and business agility, provide real-time collaboration to make it easy for agents to do business with them, promote enhanced underwriting discipline and best practices, scale their book of business profitably, and empower underwriters and agents with greater visibility into the business. FirstBest Agent is now offered as a stand-alone solution and provides carriers with all agency-facing capabilities to enable a faster path to market-driven ROI, while enabling ease of doing business with agents.
For more information, visit www.firstbest.com or call 1.888.863.6095.
Press contact:
Meira Primes
VP of Marketing
FirstBest Systems, Inc.
781.863.6027
mprimes@firstbest.com
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