HEALTH INSURANCE
EquiTrust | June 24, 2022
Sapiens International Corporation, (NASDAQ: SPNS) (TASE: SPNS), a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, announced today that EquiTrust Life, a leading North American life and health insurance company, has selected Sapiens' award-winning suite of e-application, illustration and digital solutions to provide their agents next generation customer acquisition and service capabilities.
Sapiens IllustrationPro, Sapiens ApplicationPro and Sapiens DigitalSuite support EquiTrust Life's key product offerings by providing comprehensive, new business illustrations with enhanced solutions for complex scenarios with split second calculations, and an interactive experience to reduce re-keying, resulting in fewer errors, faster time to decision and better engagement. Sapiens' simple, intuitive, device-agnostic user engagement with flexible branding and integrations enhances EquiTrust Life's partner experience. Leveraging Sapiens' toolkit, the solution provides self-sufficiency and reduces total cost of ownership.
We were looking for one vendor to drive our digital transformation and accelerate innovation within our agent sales process. Innovation is a key pillar within EquiTrust Life, and we felt that Sapiens' digital tools would enable innovation much faster than any other competitor, while providing us industry insights and best practices, We administer financial products for retirees, and Sapiens' solution delivers a superior agent experience to market complex financial products that help protect our growing senior population."
Carol Woodruff, Vice President, Information Systems with EquiTrust Life.
We are very excited to partner with EquiTrust Life on their digital transformation journey, Sapiens not only provides a wide array of best-of-breed solutions, but we also truly understand our customers' operational goals and are committed to delivering best-in-class solutions, seamlessly to drive growth and deliver value. "
Jamie Yoder, Sapiens North America President & General Manager.
Sapiens IllustrationPro for Life & Annuities is a cloud-first, point-of-sale illustration and quoting solution, offering a fully responsive, modern, intuitive user experience for the life and annuities and health markets. Sapiens ApplicationPro is a robust electronic application software that helps carriers address critical business drivers, such as decreasing time–to–issue and reducing policy acquisition costs, all in an extremely intuitive and easy–to–use package.
Sapiens DigitalSuite offers a dynamic, digital engagement and enablement platform for insurers to provide a unified, omni-channel experience. The flexible, component-based platform can be leveraged together with Sapiens' core solutions or on top of other (non-Sapiens) solutions.
About EquiTrust Life
EquiTrust Life Insurance Company is a trusted provider of life insurance and annuity products with a strong track record of operating performance. EquiTrust is a national carrier of competitive, client-friendly options, available through various distribution channels including more than 15,700 independent sales representatives and independent marketing organizations. EquiTrust offers fixed-rate and indexed annuities and life insurance and is headquartered in Chicago with operations in West Des Moines. In June 2015, Magic Johnson Enterprises became the majority shareholder, making EquiTrust Life Insurance one of the largest minority-owned life insurance company in the history of the country at $25.7 billion in assets.
About Sapiens
Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ: SPNS) (TASE: SPNS) empowers the financial sector, with a focus on insurance, to transform and become digital, innovative, and agile. Backed by more than 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens offers a complete insurance platform, with pre-integrated, low-code solutions and a cloud-first approach that accelerates customers' digital transformation. Serving over 600 customers in 30 countries, Sapiens offers insurers across property and casualty, workers' compensation and life markets the most comprehensive set of solutions, from core to complementary, including Reinsurance, Financial & Compliance, Data & Analytics, Digital, and Decision Management.
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LIFE INSURANCE
Chubb | July 04, 2022
The personal accident, supplemental health, and life insurance businesses of Cigna (NYSE: CI) in six Asia-Pacific markets are housed in the life and non-life insurance firms that Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB) has completed its acquisition of. The businesses, which include Cigna's accident and health (A&H) and life business in Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Indonesia, were purchased by Chubb for $5.36 billion. The final acquisition price was less than the first announcement, which takes into account several small modifications as well as the effects of rising interest rates and currency exchange rates on the acquired book value.
By increasing its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, a long-term development area for the company, this complementing strategic purchase helps Chubb. With the addition of Cigna's business, Chubb's global portfolio in the Asia-Pacific region will increase from $4 billion to about $7 billion in premiums, or about 18% of the company's total premiums, with roughly 95 percent of the acquired business going to its life insurance segment and the remaining going to its overseas general insurance segment. The company's global A&H writings will grow to a premium amount of around $6 billion, up from $3.7 billion, and its life insurance section will grow to a $5.4 billion enterprise.
"Cigna's business, which is approximately 80% A&H, adds significantly to our business in Asia. The Asia-Pacific region offers great potential for long-term growth and wealth creation. The Cigna businesses have favorable underwriting margins, produce high-quality earnings, and are not exposed to the P&C cycle. Chubb is so well positioned to capitalize on market and product opportunities, including the cross-selling of Chubb's non-life products to life customers, with a strong brand, technology, and complementary direct marketing skills and partnerships. At the same time, I am also pleased to welcome nearly 3,000 new colleagues to Chubb. Together, the leadership and talented professionals of Chubb and Cigna will enable us to provide greater value to our customers, distribution partners, and shareholders."
-Evan G. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of Chubb.
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LIFE INSURANCE
Policygenius | June 27, 2022
Impact Partnership intends to use Policygenius Pro to enable its member firms to significantly reduce the time spent placing term life insurance while increasing overall profitability.
Policygenius and Impact Partnership are collaborating to bring the term life fulfillment platform Policygenius Pro to Impact's network of financial advisory and broker-dealer partners.
Policygenius Pro is a turnkey partnership platform that assists advisors in accelerating and streamlining life insurance sales. Advisors and agents can use this tool to refer their clients to Policygenius, who will walk them through the entire process, from policy selection to coverage implementation.
The change allows Impact's extensive partner network, including over 200 constituent firms and 2,000 advisors, to save significant time and energy while still providing a superior client experience. The time savings enables Impact to reduce its current costs of placing term life insurance while also capturing additional opportunity that advisors may have missed due to the time-consuming process of assisting clients in obtaining term life insurance. The partnership is one of many innovation partnerships. Impact has formed, furthering its position as a forward-thinking field marketing organization (FMO).
We're thrilled to be able to offer Policygenius Pro to Impact partners, Term life coverage has always been tricky for advisors due to its time-intensiveness, and Policygenius Pro is the leading solution for alleviating that pain point."
Clay Eschrich, Impact SVP of Life and Distribution.
This gives Impact advisors who use Policygenius Pro access to a wide range of insurers, coverage types, and policy options, including accelerated underwriting offerings that are only available on the Policygenius platform. Case management, underwriting, and product support are also provided by an expert staff of 200+ dedicated specialists.
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