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... industry, including insurance. This has moved ACORD to participate in organizations and programs developing globalized standards, and to take a leadership role in uniting these separate efforts to improve electronic communications and data transfer. ACORD has long recognized the need to be active in national and international standards initiatives. Since the early 1990s, ACORD representatives have participated in the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport (EDIFACT) . This has been helpful, although a comprehensive vision of global ... standards sprang up in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and other countries. With the development of the European Union, European countries saw the need for standards that all the member nations could share, leading to the development of EDIFACT standards for the property/casualty segment of the business. While EDIFACT has addressed property/casualty standards, there is no life insurance participation. ACORD has begun filling the void in global life insurance standards through initiatives in South Africa and Australia, where we have formal working groups; ... , which participates in our national working group; as well as vendors in the U.K. and Japan. EDIFACT is a global cross-industry standards group under the auspices of the United Nations. In regions where insurance standards didn't previously exist, or where there was a practical need for a global standard, EDIFACT has seen wide support and implementation. ACORD participated in EDIFACT, but there weren't many opportunities for implementation in the United States, where strong standards were already in place. The EDIFACT Working Group (EWG), in an effort ...

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...evenues and about $30 million in Property/Casualty premiums to land on the top 100 agency list. Now an age...n easily turn into a big fire that can and will consume every one in the agency.

...re in the wind in the Commercial Property/Casualty marketplace. Some industry ...ht not give it to you in Commercial Property/Casualty, but many agencies are showing increased interest in expanding into other lines such as Group B...

... the business, more and more agency principals and managers are working on the business by focusing on technology and workflow improvements. The latest Future One agency survey confirms this trend ― 72% of the agents surveyed responded that core management issues for them are to make their internal operations more efficient and to use technology to conduct business with carriers more efficiently. Jeff Yates shows you how to improve agency workflows with technology. All Articles by CompleteMarkets Editor Comments (0 ) It's a Small World: Doing Business Abroad This content has not been ... is, if you're at all like the estimated 2,000 independent agents who participated in the "Future One Agency Universe Study." The study shows that independent agents are increasingly aware of the need to be full-service insurance providers. Agents who have traditionally focused on Property/Casualty insurance see the need to expand more aggressively into Life and other types of insurance products. In fact, slightly more than half the agencies surveyed said that over the next three years, they'll devote a higher proportion of agency resources to Life and Health ... . All Articles by CompleteMarkets Editor Comments (0 ) 1 2 x No Thanks Loading.. Loading.. x No Thanks Loading.. ...

... the business, more and more agency principals and managers are working on the business by focusing on technology and workflow improvements. The latest Future One agency survey confirms this trend ― 72% of the agents surveyed responded that core management issues for them are to make their internal operations more efficient and to use technology to conduct business with carriers more efficiently. Jeff Yates shows you how to improve agency workflows with technology. All Articles by CompleteMarkets Editor Comments (0 ) It's a Small World: Doing Business Abroad This content has not been ... is, if you're at all like the estimated 2,000 independent agents who participated in the "Future One Agency Universe Study." The study shows that independent agents are increasingly aware of the need to be full-service insurance providers. Agents who have traditionally focused on Property/Casualty insurance see the need to expand more aggressively into Life and other types of insurance products. In fact, slightly more than half the agencies surveyed said that over the next three years, they'll devote a higher proportion of agency resources to Life and Health ... . All Articles by CompleteMarkets Editor Comments (0 ) 1 2 x No Thanks Loading.. Loading.. x No Thanks Loading.. ...

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