Newsletter | June 8, 2007

6.8.07 -- Scanner Network: IBML Partners With Cranel Imaging, Expands VAR Network For ImageTrac Scanners

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Top News Stories
Scanner Network: IBML Partners With Cranel Imaging, Expands VAR Network For ImageTrac Scanners
Imaging Business Machines, LLC (IBML) announced a distribution agreement with Cranel Imaging, the value-added distributor of document imaging, storage and duplication products and services. The agreement -- the first two-tier selling arrangement for IBML -- expands distribution for IBML technology to a broader base of resellers and image capture service providers...

Pitney Bowes MapInfo Announces New Risk Data Suite
Pitney Bowes MapInfo, recently introduced the Risk Data Suite for underwriting, rating and portfolio risk management. Based on historical information (updated annually) on weather and natural disaster-related occurrences, the Risk Data Suite is a source of robust data that enables property and casualty underwriters, actuaries and risk managers to make better decisions in areas such as: underwriting policy analyses and rating; custom rating territory creation and maintenance; credit and risk scoring; portfolio risk aggregation and realistic disaster scenario analysis; and claims planning and preparedness...

Weather Risk Data: Pitney Bow+C51es MapInfo And WSI Join Forces To Provide Insurers With Weather Risk Data
Pitney Bowes MapInfo, the provider of location intelligence, recently announced an alliance with WSI Corporation the provider of weather-driven business solutions, to integrate real-time and forecasted weather information within the Pitney Bowes MapInfo desktop and Web-based location intelligence applications. This integration enables insurers, reinsurers and brokers to analyze geographic risk exposure with greater detail, resulting in more accurate business decisions...

Site Selection: Location, Location, Location: For Retailers, Strategic Site Research Yields Better Results
Major retailers face the need to attain constant year-over-year, quarter-over-quarter growth. To do this, they must establish and open new stores, sometimes dozens of them a year. Submitted by MapInfo...

Location Research: Optimize Your Retail Recruitment And Retention Efforts
With MarketSuite developers can efficiently target only the very best candidates for their locations — saving time and money. Developers know upfront exactly what retailers fit the demographic profile of their property's trade area. Submitted by MapInfo...

Companies Honored With Best Practices Awards
Three national insurance companies and an insurance technology company recently received the prestigious "Best Practices Award of Excellence" at the 2007 Big "I" Legislative Conference & Convention. The awards were presented at the Young Agents Breakfast and Leadership Panel on April 27...

Commercial Mutual Leases IDP's Agentxpress P&C Web-Based Processing Capabilities
In a move that empowers its agents to immediately access billing and claims information, view images of printed policies and to generate reports, such as loss run—all via the Internet, Commercial Mutual Insurance Company has licensed IDP's AgentXpress web-based processing capabilities...

PIANJ Supports Bill To Prohibit Step-Down Provisions
Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. President Andrew Anderson, CIC, recently provided testimony to the New Jersey Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee in support of bill numbers S-1666/A-3038...

Ironshore Insurance To Provide Property And Catastrophe Insurance For South Carolina Risks
Ironshore Insurance Ltd. was approved recently to provide property and catastrophe insurance on an excess and surplus basis for risks located in the State of South Carolina. Ironshore will provide commercial property and condominium coverages to the coastal exposed businesses statewide...

NAMIC Asks Governor To Veto Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Coverage Legislation
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) is urging Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter to veto legislation concerning uninsured and underinsured motorists. In a letter to the governor, NAMIC warned that the legislation would hurt, rather than help, consumers...

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