CORE INSURANCE
Hub International | June 04, 2021
Hub International Limited, a leading global insurance brokerage, announced today that it has acquired Salvatore Insurance Brokers Ltd. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Located in Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada, Salvatore Insurance is a family-owned insurance agency providing clients in Atlantic Canada commercial insurance. They specialize in the transportation industry, which supports Hub's Specialty practices by complementing and strengthening its existing capabilities in commercial auto and fleet. Christina Salvatore, President of Salvatore Insurance, and their team will join the Atlantic Region and report to Susan Murphy, President of Hub Ontario.
About Hub's M&A Activities
Hub International Limited is committed to growing organically and through acquisitions to expand its geographic footprint and strengthen industry and product expertise.
About Hub International
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Hub International Limited is a leading full-service global insurance broker providing risk management, insurance, employee benefits, retirement and wealth management products and services. With more than 13,000 employees in offices located throughout North America, Hub's vast network of specialists brings clarity to a changing world with tailored solutions and unrelenting advocacy, so clients are ready for tomorrow.
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INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY
LoadStar and K2 Insurance | October 05, 2021
Decision Research Corporation (DRC), an industry-leading provider of cloud-based enterprise solutions for the P&C insurance sector, announced today K2 Insurance Services has successfully deployed their innovative LoadStar Customs Inspection Insurance product on the DRC Insurance Platform. Via the DRC Agent Portal, freight forwarders and Customs Brokers are now able to purchase coverage online, submit claims, and are issued certificates in a single session, with full policy service, billing, and claims enabled for back-office processing.
LoadStar, developed by K2 in partnership with a global insurance leader, is the first insurance solution to solve the problem of unpredictable shipping container inspection costs. President of LoadStar Insurance Services, Dan Williams said, "By creating a predictable cost to eliminate an unpredictable threat, LoadStar can mitigate uncertainty and protect profit margins to keep containers flowing smoothly." Due to the novel nature of the product, K2 required a platform that could handle any risk, not just established insurance products.
DRC is our longtime technology partner, so we felt extremely confident turning to them to help us get this unique new product to market quickly and in a cost-effective manner. We were able to get LoadStar up and running on the DRC Insurance Platform, and totally integrated with our enterprise architecture, in just a few months. We take pride in serving our customers using the best and most efficient systems available to the insurance industry, which is why we rely on the DRC Insurance Platform.
- Rebecka Kilkenny, CIO of K2.
Beyond direct portals and servicing, the DRC Insurance platform includes enterprise rating, document generation and storage.
At K2 we're always looking to launch creative programs run by exceptional people. We consider it part of our core mission to provide innovative products and exceptional results in specialty markets, and DRC's technology empowers us to do exactly that.
- Mark Smith, K2 President.
Innovative thinking is part of DRC's DNA, so we're always excited to see how visionary clients like K2 are able to use our solutions to create a brand-new market. We have been honored to be part of their success and growth for the past seven years and look forward to continuing our partnership for many more to come.
-Karen Yamamoto, CEO of DRC.
About LoadStar and K2 Insurance
LoadStar Customs Inspection Insurance was born out of a decade long "thorn in the side" problem of Importers who have never been offered a solution to offset the unpredictable financial sting of a Customs Inspection. Today we pride ourselves on offering a first ever solution to deliver "a predictable cost to eliminate an unpredictable threat". LoadStar is there to cover your inspection fees from an X-Ray Exam to a Tailgate Exam to a full devanning of your container in an Intensive Exam. LoadStar covers the expense of the invoice and reimburses the claim in 24-48 hours. Fast and efficient processing of your invoice ensures you'll be back up and running and protecting your profit margins and future business. K2 partners are top-tier insurers and MGAs in the specialty areas they serve. In addition to working with financially sound companies, we also employ robust, modern technology that aligns with our expansion plans and allows us to bring products to the marketplace efficiently and quickly. We understand how important it is in today's environment to have a policy administration system nimble enough to accommodate new products, enhancements, and regions. We're continually looking for acquisitions and growth opportunities. Through a combination of specialized, successful MGAs and well-capitalized, nationwide insurance carriers, K2 offers a compelling value proposition to the marketplace.
About DRC
DRC provides innovative, cloud-based, enterprise solutions to P&C insurance companies looking to boost their business development efforts, reduce administrative overhead, and accelerate speed-to-market for their products through automation. RS X Rating, DRC's no-code rating solution, gives actuaries the ability to configure powerful automation functions without IT assistance, and to price risks and model products, no matter how complex, all through a familiar Microsoft Excel® interface. DRC's flagship product is the DRC Insurance Platform, a full-service policy administration system, including portals, quoting, billing, claims, and advanced analytics, powered by RS X Rating, and engineered to streamline internal processes and empower business users within a secure and robust enterprise ecosystem. DRC has remained committed to total customer satisfaction throughout its 50-year history, and its clients, running the gamut of size and scope from large global carriers to regional start-ups, continue to rely on DRC's trusted solutions to manage over $7 billion in written premium.
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ANNUITIES
Luma Financial Technologies, Insurance Technologies | February 24, 2021
Luma Financial Technologies ("Luma"), a free, multi-issuer structured products and annuities platform, reported today that they have chosen Insurance Technologies, LLC, supplier of FireLight®, a multi-transporter start to finish insurance and retirement deals platform, as its most recent accomplice to bring their annuities solution, "Luma Annuities," to market.
The Luma platform, which is sponsored by three of the world's biggest banks, was worked to improve on the structured item venture measure. After solidly setting up itself as the worldwide fintech market leader in the structured products space, Luma is currently presenting an unequaled annuities solution that gives improved customer worth and helps consultants in battling their customers retirement saving difficulties, which are being driven by increasing market unpredictability and a low interest rate climate.
Luma Annuities is a turn-key annuity deals and lifecycle management solution that straightforwardly addresses the greatest difficulties confronting counselors selling annuities today. The solution works on all parts of getting the hang of, executing, arranging, and overseeing annuities for venture firms and guides, allowing them to unquestionably offer their customers a more extensive scope of income-generating products.
“Our mission has always been to simplify product complexities and give advisors smart solutions that they can believe in,” said Jay Charles, Director of Annuities at Luma Financial Technologies. “By partnering with Insurance Technologies and leveraging the FireLight platform’s embedded API capabilities, we bring a seamless order entry experience to financial professionals around the world. It is through our scale that we’re able to provide advisors with this unmatched experience, allowing them to offer their clients a wider-range of solutions to potentially put them on a path to a more secure retirement.”
The new solution offers best in class innovation modules that are worked by guides, for counselors. It was intended to offer top tier instructive substance just as highlight broad information across a merchant seller's whole annuity item rack so guides can look at rates, riders, and item includes. Additionally included are prescient investigation and transporter delineation includes that enable consultants to introduce the best, most secure item solutions to their customers. Independently, the solution additionally allows guides to track and screen the presentation of the products they sold through the Luma platform, just as products in their past book of business.
By inserting the Insurance Technologies FireLight solution inside the Luma platform, clients get a durable deals insight, allowing them to oversee products and rules in one incorporated area.
Since 1995, Insurance Technologies has been altering the insurance and financial services industry to enable financial experts and counsels to all the more likely serve their customers. Their solutions have for some time been executed inside industry-driving insurance transporters and wholesaler firms.
“We’re extremely excited to partner with a company that is adding tremendous value to the annuity category at a time when Americans need guaranteed income options more than ever,” said Doug Massey, EVP of Sales and Relationship Management, Insurance Technologies. “The ability for Luma to utilize the FireLight sales platform to access e-application and illustration data demonstrates the power of FireLight to allow carriers to build product rules once and re-use anywhere, seamlessly offering products in various user interfaces and effective solutions such as Luma Annuities. The transparency, efficiency, objectivity, and easy-to-manage tools that Luma provides financial professionals are simply powerful. We look forward to working with them to enhance the annuity investment experience provided to their customers.”
About Luma Financial Technologies
Luma Financial Technologies is the creator of Luma, a fully customizable, independent, buy-side platform that helps financial teams more efficiently learn, create, order and manage market-linked investments such as structured products, structured annuities and more. Launched in 2011, Luma is one of the largest and longest-tenured structured product platforms in the U.S. market and is used by broker/dealer firms, RIA offices and private banks to automate and optimize the full process cycle for offering and transacting in market-linked investments. This includes education and certification; creation and pricing of custom structures; order entry; and post-trade actions. Luma is multi-issuer, multi-wholesaler and multi-product, thus providing teams with an extensive breadth of market-linked investments to best meet clients’ specific portfolio needs.
About Insurance Technologies
Insurance Technologies provides innovative sales and regulatory automation solutions to the insurance and financial services industries. Offering a suite of integrated sales solutions, from pre-sale functions to quoting and illustrations through e-application and e-delivery to post-sale services, Insurance Technologies provides carriers and distributors the sales capabilities and tools to create automated and cohesive sales experiences for their advisors and clients across all lines of insurance, retirement and investment products. The unique architecture and flexibility of its solutions deliver front and back-office configurability and usability to support multiple business strategies, encourage cross-channel growth and evolve with regulatory changes.
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