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Honor Roll: This Week's Top Insurance Blogs (Mar. 22-28)
Our favorite insurance technology-related blog posts from around the Web (March 22-28, 2009):Why Buy When You Can Just Take?
Celent's Mike Fitzgerald shares an interesting conversation he had with executives at an unnamed P&C carrier that is reaping the benefits of implementing an automated rules-based underwriting system and predictive model pricing technology in its commercial lines business. ---
Document Retention - Boring But Necessary
This quick post from the Specialty Insurance Blog touches on the importance of document management technology, particularly for agents and brokers. ---
In another Celent blog, Nicolas Michellod seeks to define "Web 2.0" as an attitude as opposed to just a set of technologies and concepts. "People need information more quickly but they also want to share it more rapidly. In terms of technology, systems allowing instant communication like chats, Instant Messaging (IM), Really Simply Syndication (RSS) and to a certain extend SMS and Voice over IP (VoIP) are the drivers of spontaneousness," he writes. ---
"Why not make the NAIC an arm of the federal government and give the U.S. President the right to appoint its leadership (just as he appoints the head of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve)?" wonders Mike Gantt in a sizable post on federal regulation. ---"Why not make the NAIC an arm of the federal government and give the U.S. President the right to appoint its leadership (just as he appoints the head of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve)?" wonders Mike Gantt in a sizable post on federal regulation.