Cyber News

e-ABSENCE MgmT.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based UnumProvident Corp. has released an expanded version of Comparative Reporting & Analysis, an information service that allows companies to monitor employee absences.

Jefferson Pilot Site

Jefferson Pilot Financial (Greensboro, N.C.) introduced electronic pending-case status updates to producers. Jefferson Pilot has partnered with AgencyWorks (Salt Lake City) to provide updates pursuant to ACORD (Pearl River, N.Y.) XML standards.

TRAVELERS' PASSPORT

Travelers Property Casualty Corp. (Hartford) is working with AMS Services Inc. (Windsor, Conn.) to implement Carrier Passport, an expansion of AMS' TransactNOW that provides automated sign-on directly to Travelers' agent Web sites from within AMS management systems.

CIGNA In Spanish

MyCIGNA.com, the personalized benefits Web portal of CIGNA Healthcare (Bloomfield, Conn.), now has Spanish-language capabilities.

Guarded Networks

Guarded Networks (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) now supports Fortinet's (Santa Clara, Calif.) FortiGate Antivirus Firewall products in its BorderShield security platform to capitalize on the demand for outsourced security services.