Here's what leading
analysts have to say about the explosive growth in the online insurance
marketplace. We've also pulled together reference material to help you
evaluate the industry.
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RESOURCES
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FinancialDNA
Electronic
Commerce in Commercial Insurance Markets
In this overview of the history of commercial insurance distribution
and the strategies of more than 50 vendors, FinancialDNA founder and
CEO Gary Craft, CFA, notes that InsureZone's AgentSecure market-access
solution for small and rural agents is, "...gaining widespread support
from the Independent Insurance Agents organization."
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IDC
Small
Business: The New Darling of eInsurance Marketplaces
In this survey of the online small commercial space, IDC Research
Manager Karen O'Brien writes: "One of the key challenges in
small-business insurance is to provide speedy responses to requests for
quotes while offering coverage to most types of businesses across a
broad geography. InsureZone has tackled this challenge by obtaining
underwriting authority with eight of its nine standard carriers to
enable rapid response times, and by establishing a Special Accounts
unit to handle hard-to-place risks."
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Celent
Communications
Web-Enabling
Small Business Insurance Policy Origination
This survey of the small commercial e-marketplace by Matthew Josefowicz
concludes that, "InsureZone will be a strong contender. Its mix of
online and offline channels, as well as its relationships with large
banks, should enable it to capture a significant piece of this new
market."
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Meridien
Research
www.meridien-research.com
North America's 7 million small businesses will spend $43 billion on
insurance in 2001, and banks are increasingly looking to reach this
profitable market via the Internet, says a new report authored by David
Potterton of Meridien Research.
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ASP Consortium
www.aspconsortium.org
Information center for Application Service Providers, their customers
and delivery partners.
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ASSOCIATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
American Bankers Insurance Association
http://www.aba.com/ABIA/default.htm
The non-profit association dedicated to the bank insurance industry,
providing its members with lobbying of federal and state legislators
and regulatory agencies on matters affecting the bank-insurance
industry.
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Financial Institutions
Insurance Association
www.fiia.org
The nation's leading trade association dedicated to the professional
marketing of insurance products and services by commercial banks,
thrifts, credit unions, mortgage companies, consumer finance companies
and their affiliated insurance agencies.
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Insurance News Net.com
www.insurancenewsnet.com
The online resource for the insurance industry.
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The National Underwriter
Company
www.nuco.com
Publishes a broad array of print, e-media and software products for the
insurance and financial services industries.
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American Banker
http://www.americanbanker.com
The financial services resource.
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