Alliances & Partnerships

Boston-based PROMUTUAL GROUP's Risk Management Services will partner with eHEALTH SOLUTIONSGROUP (Vienna, VA) to create programs for eHealth's Web site.

ZURICH FINANCIAL SERVICES (Zurich) will form a strategic alliance with BANK OF AMERICA (Charlotte, NC) to offer integrated bank and insurance services starting in July.

KEYNETICA, INC. (Morrisville, NC), provider of portable personal identification tools and services, and FIDERUS (Research Triangle Park, NC), a consulting firm for security and privacy issues, will form an alliance to provide electronic privacy and security solutions.

INDEPENDENT AUTO DAMAGE APPRAISERS ASSOCIATION (Columbus, GA) has partnered with EAUTOCLAIMS.COM (EACC, Palm Harbor, FL) to allow EACC clients access to national appraisal assignment coverage.

NAVIGY, INC. (Tallahassee FL), a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, and HUMANA INC. (Louisville, KY) will operate an Internet connectivity solution for Florida's physicians and healthcare providers.

London-based THE INNOVATION GROUP has acquired PYRAMID ACQUISITION CORP. (Danbury, CT), the parent of Pyramid Services Inc., which specializes in the development and distribution of software applications to insurance third-party administrators.

BISYS (Little Falls, NJ) has acquired Memphis-based THE ADVANCED MARKETS, LLC and the related PJ ROBB COMPANIES, wholesale distributors of life insurance products and services for clients of brokerage firms, financial institutions and independent agents.

London-based SHERWOOD INTERNATIONAL has partnered with New York-based DELOITTE CONSULTING to provide the Amarta e-business workflow solution to P&C insurers.

WELLS FARGO & CO. (San Francisco) will purchase Minneapolis-based ACO BROKERAGE HOLDINGS CORP., a parent company of P&C agency, Acordia, Inc.

ALLFINANZ INC. (Dublin) will form an alliance with LINCOLN NATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT (Fort Wayne, IN) to deliver an outsourced solution for underwriting and issuing life insurance policies online. The service will be offered to US insurance providers and distributors.