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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (Jacksonville) has tapped Connextions.net (Orlando, FL) to launch a Web site allowing online self-enrollment in the company's Over-and-Under 65 health care plans. The implementation enables licensed agents to field customer inquiries by phone, e-mail, live, text-base chat, and to assist customers with the enrollment process.

Reno, NV-based QuickQuote.com has partnered with market data network provider BanxQuote.com (New York) to provide BanxQuote visitors with access to thousands of insurance plans, offering term life, individual health, fixed annuities travel health and international health insurance.

UK-based Friends Provident employed Allfinanz Inc's (Dublin) xpertMatch software to launch a virtual distribution community (VDC) so agents and brokers can sell and purchase of term life insurance on the Web.

AMS Services (Windsor, CT) released Sagitta Online, an ASP-hosted offering for the large agent/broker market and other insurance distributors requiring customized agency management software.

Anthony O'Donnell has covered technology in the insurance industry since 2000, when he joined the editorial staff of Insurance & Technology. As an editor and reporter for I&T and the InformationWeek Financial Services of TechWeb he has written on all areas of information ... View Full Bio