Cyber News

A recent listing of e-commerce-related news briefs.

REAL-TIME WC

Agents doing business with The Hartford Financial Services Group (Hartford) now can quote and request issuance of small commercial workers' compensation products in real-time directly from their agency management systems using University Park, IL-based Applied Systems' Web Edits technology.

STANDARDS PORTAL

MessageStandards.com has been launched to integrate standard users, standards organizations and vendors that provide products to support standards. The list of standards-setting organizations is structured by industry.

ZURICH DIRECT BILLING

Schaumburg, IL-based Zurich North America Small Business launched a new direct bill function on zurichna.com. The new site gives agents and brokers online access to their customers' billing information.

INSYSTEMS CERTIFIED

Markham, ON-based InSystems has received ACORD (Pearl River, NY) certification for its InSystems New Business (INB) application, for use of ACORD's most recently published XML for life insurance standards.

ONLINE POLICY VIEW

Travelers Property Casualty (Hartford) now offers agents electronic policy view (EPV) capability through AMS Services Inc.'s (Windsor, CT) TransactNOW, a product that enables communication among carriers, agents and the AMS Services management system product line.

ACCENTURE CLAIMS .NET

Accenture (Chicago) has released Accenture Claim Components 5.0, a Web-based claims application, designed using Microsoft .NET.

EMONEY ADVISOR VAULT

Conshohocken, PA-based eMoney Advisor has increased the storage available for its online Vault for those advisors who need additional capacity beyond the 200 megabytes.

I.I.I. EN ESPANOL

The Insurance Information Institute (III, New York) has formed an alliance with Terra.com, the US Hispanic portal of the Terra Lycos Network, to connect Spanish-speaking consumers with insurance companies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

CURSIVE DIGITAL SIGS

Glenview, IL-based Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Co. (GTL) has launched CursiveOnLine (COL), a technology that enables insurance applicants to attach their cursive signatures to online insurance forms. The patent-pending technology was developed by MARKETech, Inc., (Gainesville, FL).

R&SA/APPLIED/IVANS

Royal & SunAlliance (Charlotte, SC) standard and preferred personal lines agents who use Applied Systems (University Park, IL) agency management software can now access real-time claim and billing information through IVANS (Greenwich, CT) Transformation Station.