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Manulife Financial offers independent financial consultants Web access to ERISA Online; Sovereign Insurance Services enters into a partnership with DirectNet Insurance Agency; Grange Insurance Group chooses Applied Systems' Diamond System PC-based policy processing solution.

Toronto-based Manulife Financial is offering independent financial consultants Web access to an online prospecting base called ERISA Online, created by PensionPlanet.com. ERISA Online is a searchable listing of more than 1.2 million qualified retirement plans and qualified health and welfare plans. Access is offered free of charge to brokers who have sold a Manulife Financial group pension product and are registered to the Manulife Financial broker Web site, www.my401ksales.com.

Sovereign Insurance Services, a division of Philadelphia-based Sovereign Bank, has entered into a business partnership with DirectNet Insurance Agency, a subsidiary of Countrywide Credit Industries, Inc. The alliance allows Sovereign Bank to offer its consumers an expanded personal insurance marketplace through www.sovereignbank.com.

Grange Insurance Group (Seattle) has chosen P&C solutions provider Applied Systems' (University Park, IL) Diamond System PC-based policy processing solution.

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