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Mobile Technologies for Insurance 

Mobile Technologies for InsuranceLeading analysts predict that within the next three years, more people will access the Web on tablet and smartphone mobile devices than on computers.

Join us to learn why you should be thinking about mobile technologies and how FirstBest is helping address underwriting and collaborative business challenges of an insurance workforce increasingly accustomed to mobile connectivity.

Also learn how your underwriters, agents, executives, and other stakeholders can use mobile technologies to:

  • Speed underwriting
  • Increase efficiency
  • Improve customer service

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Back by Popular Demand: The Pursuit of Profitable Underwriting 

Insurance industry experts continue to predict slow growth and other challenges for P&C markets. With premiums significantly lower, analysts report that carriers are investing in technologies to improve underwriting profitability and grow market share.

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Beyond Products: Building the High-Speed Specialty Lines Platforms 

Insurers increasingly are targeting specific niches with customized products. Ideas are plentiful; it's the execution that's hard, and often grows harder with each new niche. A panel of insurance and technology experts examine how some insurers are reinventing the product pipeline, capturing market share, and improving underwriting profitability by reinventing their underwriting and front-end infrastructure.

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The Pursuit of Profitable Underwriting

Insurance industry experts continue to predict slow growth and other challenges for P&C markets in 2011. Register now to download this webinar and learn:

  • Why experts believe that underwriting emphasis will be key for profitability in 2011
  • How modern systems are helping insurers to improve short- and long-term profitability
  • How you can drive profitability in your organization

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Innovation in the Insurance Front Office: What’s New
Part II of the FirstBest Front Office Series

Are you challenged to increase ease of doing business and streamline underwriting - with limited IT resources? In today’s environment, insurers need to increase EODB in order to become the carrier of choice. And it’s critical to lower the loss ratio through greater underwriting efficiency and discipline.  But how can you make it happen with today’s limited IT budgets? You can – with the FirstBest Front Office Suite. 

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Introducing the New Front Office
Part I of the FirstBest Front Office Series

Are you looking to drive more revenue from your distribution channel? Many carriers are finding that in order to drive more revenue from the front-end distribution channel, they need to go beyond the back-end. They need applications that weave a seamless collaborative process from agent to underwriting to back-end systems. They need the new front office.

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Trends and Spends in Commercial- and Specialty-Lines Underwriting
Presented with Chad Hersh of Novarica

As you plan for 2011, join us for an informative Webinar with Chad Hersh, a principal in Novarica's insurance practice. You’ll also learn how FirstBest empowers IT departments to deliver front office transformation.

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AppReader 2.0: Upload for all Your Agents Regardless of Agency Management System

Would you like to let all your agents upload to you - without proprietary network and transaction fees? Then AppReader is for you. Learn about FirstBest AppReader, the new alternative to traditional, costly upload options. AppReader enables data upload for agents and underwriters, regardless of agency management system, and without proprietary network or transaction fees.

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Mastering Commercial Lines: The new combo - underwriting and policy systems  Presented with Deb Smallwood, Principal, SMA Strategy Meets Action

Today's specialty and commercial-line markets are highly competitive and complex. Carriers need to be able to grow premium while keeping costs low. The best insurers are seizing the opportunity to become more nimble using next-generation underwriting solutions to manage risk, deliver automation directly to underwriters’ and agents’ desktops, and help manage the entire front-office.

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Agent Technologies Today

Commercial lines carriers want their agents to submit high quality applications that are complete and fit their risk appetite. Agents are under extreme pressure to quote business quickly and accurately, and they want real-time responses and feedback. According to a recent Rough Notes survey, agents want more carriers to offer real-time functionality, including quoting, checking a submission’s status, and communicating directly with underwriters.Learn about findings from this survey conducted by FirstBest and Rough Notes Magazine. If you are looking to accomplish fast, accurate and relevant collaboration with your agents, please join us for this exciting demo webinar.

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Underwriting Processes and Disciplines for Stronger Profitability

Presented with AM Best Magazine 

Insurance innovation starts with solid underwriting. A panel of insurers, technologists and underwriting experts will examine the best practices and cutting-edge techniques insurers are using to make their underwriting more accurate and tie those activities to claims, pricing and performance. The best are leveraging these skills to quickly and effectively penetrate new markets and launch products that produce results. 
 

Pursuing Underwriting Efficiencies and Market Growth: A Workers Comp Webinar

Learn how ICW Group worked with FirstBest to grow their book of business, expand into new markets, and improve underwriting quality and efficiencies, all driving an increase of 71% in outbound quotes and an improvement of 47% in policy processing time.

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The pursuit of profitability: How to enhance price accuracy and risk management
Presented with MajescoMastek

Commercial lines underwriting has remained a manual, redundant and intensive process. So, how can carriers eliminate multiple systems, data/rate inaccuracies and manual touch points? By adopting Web-based and rules-driven systems that integrate with multiple enterprise systems (such as agent portals and policy administration systems), insurers can increase speed-to-market, enhance pricing accuracy and risk management, and capitalize on new business opportunities.

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FirstBest Application Form Reader - A New Way to Upload

FirstBest has developed an agent upload solution that allows all agents to upload their ACORD Applications to you, regardless of what agency management system they use. They could even fill out the ACORD application in ADOBE FormFill! And they can do so without any transaction fees and without any costly network services.

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Improve P&C Underwriting Decisions by analyzing catastrophe risk at the point of underwriting

Presented by FirstBest and RiskMeter

Wouldn’t it be great if you could determine the proximity to natural hazards for any property in the United States and have this information automatically downloaded into a form that underwriters could then tier, apply rules to and price right at their finger tips. All of this can be done in one integrated solution.

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Ease of Doing Business: What Agents Really Want from their Carriers?

Presented by Barry Rabkin, Financial Insights and Julian Pelenur, FirstBest Systems

What do Agents & Brokers really want and expect from a carrier system that purports to provide ease of doing business? How many times have you heard carriers and vendors discussing how to achieve true Ease of Doing Business? But have you seen many real solutions in action?  Join us as we present key findings from The Financial Insights-Council For Insurance Agents and Brokers survey.

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How Technology Can Help Insurers to Capture New Markets More Rapidly and Profitably

Presented with Ellen Carney, Forrester Research and Richard Kerr, MarketScout

The P&C insurance industry is under ever increasing pressures to produce return-on-investment and improve their underwriting profitability.  Insurers that want to improve their competitive position, as well as maintain their book’s quality and breadth must process significantly larger volumes of business.Today’s market is also far more fluid than it has ever been.  In order to meet market demands, insurers need to adopt new approaches and technologies to significantly accelerate the development of new products and to benefit from first-mover advantages.

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Underwriting 2.0: The New Carrier-Agent Era

What does Underwriting 2.0 mean to you? For some carriers, it means a more streamlined underwriting process, a leaner and meaner way of doing business. For others, it means making it as easy as possible for agents to work with them, to speed the flow of new business in this soft market cycle. Maybe it’s about quality, making the whole process more consistent. Or taking on only those risks that make business sense.Or, maybe it’s both or some type of combination.

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Up & Coming Insurance Technology Firms - Class of 2008

This webinar identifies the "Class of 2008" and highlight specific technology vendors, their strategic objectives, market footprint and approach to product development and deployment as well as Financial Insights' analysis of their market opportunities, barriers, critical success factors, potential paths and the implications for insurers, VC firms, and technology firms.

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Strategic Technology Investments to Combat the Soft Market

Presented with Jeff Rieder, President, The Ward Group

Learn how technology investments are not only helping carriers combat the soft market, but also enabling them to build a stronger foundation to increase underwriting productivity and profitability, as the market turns.

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Quality Underwriting in a Soft Market

Presented with Matt Josefowicz, Director of Insurance Practice, Novarica

The pressures of a soft market demand improved quality in underwriting. Given the time, the information, and the guidance, underwriters know how to write good business. The challenge is bringing all the information, the right tools, and the best practice guidance right into the underwriters’ system and process, so it’s easy and doesn’t take extra time to do things right. A true Underwriting Management System can help you achieve both improved productivity and quality.

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Ease of Doing Business, The UMS Way

Presented with David West, TowerGroup. Moderated by Ara Tremby, National Underwriter

Insurers face increasing price pressures and as a result, earn less revenue on the same number of accounts. The challenge is to scale their businesses efficiently and profitably, while at the same time, making it easier for agents to do business with them. Forward thinking carriers, who make it easier for agents to do business with them and who underwrite faster and more accurately, will continue to capture higher shares of better risks – driving higher retention, profit and market share.

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Making Predictive Analytics Operational for Real Time Underwriting

A Combined Solution Brought to you by FirstBest Systems and Valen Technologies

In a softening market, insurance carriers are rightly concerned about the downward spiral in premiums. Forward-looking carriers are searching for strong competitive advantage. Carriers who can segment their business more granularly and implement precision pricing strategies will retain a higher percentage of lower risks and avoid higher risks altogether.

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Underwriting in a Soft Market

Presented with TechDecisions Magazine and Barry Rabkin, Financial Insights

The commercial lines marketplace is experiencing major shifts. Natural disasters and the advent of new business models are pressuring carriers to find new roads to profitability. Several leading indicators predict the continuing soft market. Today's insurance executives are increasingly eager to maintain high levels of growth and profitability, regardless of changing market conditions.

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Profit From Better Underwriting

Presented Insurance Networking News and Matt Josefowicz, Celent

Mid-tier commercial property and casualty carriers face a number of business challenges as they attempt to grow market share, fend off competition from larger carriers, and enhance their relationships with customers and agents. Many carriers are looking for better ways to increase underwriting revenue and profitability and decrease the influence of soft market cycles and the reliance on investment income.

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For additional information or to schedule a demo, please contact Meira Primes, VP of Marketing at 781.863.6005 or mprimes@firstbest.com.

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