New Contracts

NAVISYS WINS

NaviSys (Edison, NJ) announced three new contract wins. VantisLife (East Hartford), operating in Connecticut as SBLI, TIAA-CREF Life Insurance Co. (New York) and The Guardian Life Insurance Co. (New York) have deployed NaviSys Front Office.

MONY SELECTS VIP

The MONY Group, Inc. (New York), will deploy VIP, SunGard Insurance Systems' (Miami) enterprise-wide illustration system for its annuity channel.

ALLIED PICKS AMS

Allied Insurance (Des Moines) has purchased TransactNOW, a Web-based transaction application for agents, from AMS Services (Windsor, CT).

ADMINSERVER DEAL

Western United Life Assurance Co. (Spokane, WA) will use Malvern, PA-based AdminServer's AdminLife & Annuity (AL&A) solution to administer its annuity product lines.

SHERWOOD INKS NY LIFE

New York Life International, the overseas arm of New York Life Insurance Co. (New York), has signed a new services order with Armonk, NY-based Sherwood International. The contract builds on an agreement from January 2000.

TRITECH GETS RURAL

Rural Mutual Insurance Co. (Madison, WI) has gone live with a policy management, information reporting and point-of-sale solution from Tritech Financial Systems, Inc. (Toronto), and Picom Software Systems Ltd. (Boston).

TOP DOWN FOR PREMERA

Top Down Systems Corp. (Rockville, MD) announced that Premera Blue Cross (Mountlake Terrace, WA) has selected its Client Letter application to automate correspondence generation for its new suite of health insurance products.

CNA MARINE PICKS ISI

Insurance Systems Inc. (ISI, Toronto) won a contract from CNA Marine Operations, a unit of CNA Financial Corp. (Chicago), for its OMMni.com ocean cargo insurance application.

FFIC/MITCHELL ROLLOUT

Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Novato, CA) has begun a nationwide rollout of Mitchell International's (San Diego) eGlassMate solution. EGlassMate allows customers, agents and autoglass shops to look up and verify availability and policy numbers.

STATE AUTO PICKS GEAC

State Auto financial, a Columbus, OH-based regional property and casualty insurer, will roll out GEAC's (Southborough,MA) Extensity Expense Report application to over 2,000 users.

SECURIAN PICKS E-Z DATA

The Securian Financial Network, the distribution arm of Securian Financial Group (St. Paul) has licensed E-Z Data's (Pasadena, CA) Enterprise CRM Platform solution and will migrate from E-Z Data's Windows-based Client Data System.

REDSKY AT FARMERS

Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group has installed a 911 call management solution from RedSky Technologies, Inc. (Chicago), at its Aurora, IL, facility to satisfy the requirements of Illinois' new law on E-911 service for businesses.

Greg MacSweeney is editorial director of InformationWeek Financial Services, whose brands include Wall Street & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology, Advanced Trading, and Insurance & Technology. View Full Bio