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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