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Have you visited the Claims Channel Lately?
Our blog spot features commentary by leading industry experts. Here’s a peek at
some of the posts we’ve recently added.
ORSA Feedback Pilot Project Lands With Little Turbulence
By Denise Tessier, senior regulatory consultant for Insurance Compliance
Solutions, enterprise Risk Management and the Consulting Practice
at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services
For this pilot project, more than a dozen undisclosed insurers and groups
voluntarily submitted a sample of their ORSA Summary Report for regulatory
review under a confidentiality agreement. The reports were delivered to the
NAIC early in the summer, and were recently reviewed by the committee over
two days. Regulators went through each report one by one for comment and criticism, both to
provide feedback to the individual companies submitting the reports, and to address potential
wording and substantive issues with the Manual itself.
Small-Business Consumers Need to See the Light About Claims Process
By Sam J. Friedman, insurance research leader at Deloitte’s Center for
Financial Services in New York
If processing a claim is indeed the moment of truth in an insurer’s relationship
with customers, why are small-business consumers apparently being kept in
the dark when it comes to how a loss will be handled?
How Close Are We To Casting Presidential Election Ballots on the Internet?
By Robert Regis Hyle, editor, Tech Decisions magazine,
PropertyCasualty360.com
The presidential election is the most important event of the year, but I think
we’re all getting tired of the campaigning, especially if, like me, you live in the
Greater Cincinnati area. Ohio is apparently no longer the Buckeye State, but
rather the Battleground State. In planning my visit to the polls, I wonder when
polling places are going to become electronic.
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E-mail: claims_editor@sbmedia.com
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K Editorial Advisory Board
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Patrick Harmon, IMaCC
James R. Jones, Katie School of Insurance and Financial
Services, Illinois State University
Thomas Mallin, Property Loss Research Bureau
Charles J. Reilly, Jr., edward R. Reilly & Co.
Kathleen J. Robison, CPCU, K.Robi & associates, LLC
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