Boston, MA - October 26, 2009 – Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, a strategic business unit of Liberty Mutual Group, has received the 2009 Interface Partner Award from insurance technology company Applied Systems.
The award, also given to Agency Markets’ personal lines provider Safeco® Insurance, recognizes broad involvement and achievements in agency-carrier interface and acknowledges Agency Markets’ leadership and innovation, citing commitment to providing agents with download, real-time inquiry, and real-time rating.
“We are honored to receive this recognition for our ongoing efforts to speed agents’ workflows through technology enhancements,” said Peggy Scott, assistant vice president, Agency Markets, and manager, Marketing Information Management. “We’re also pleased to join Applied Systems, ASCnet, and many other technology providers and carriers in support of the Real-Time 21 Day Challenge, a campaign aimed at encouraging agencies to either adopt or broaden their real-time capabilities.”
Agency Markets and Safeco received the Interface Partner Awards during a ceremony at this month’s 2009 TENCon, the Technology, Education & Networking Conference held in Kansas City, Missouri, and hosted by ASCnet, the Applied Systems Client Network.
“The continued commitment of Agency Markets and other forward-thinking carriers keeps our industry advancing,” said Doug Johnston, vice president, Partner Relations & Product Innovations at Applied Systems. “We recognize the company’s dedication to interface partnerships with its agencies for the overall benefit to the industry.”
Agency Markets’ companies provide appointed agencies with batch download of policies, claims, and direct bill commissions, real-time upload for quoting, bridge to quote/issue, and claims first notice of loss, real-time inquiries on policies, claims and billing, as well as real-time Alerts!™ for both personal and commercial lines.
About Liberty Mutual Agency Markets
Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, a business unit of Liberty Mutual Group, offers personal and commercial insurance through independent agents throughout the United States. Commercial lines products are offered through eight regional companies and Liberty Agency Underwriters, which provides specialty commercial products, including excess casualty and program business.
Personal lines products are offered nationally under the Safeco Insurance brand. Liberty Mutual Surety provides nationwide contract and commercial surety and fidelity bonds, and Summit provides workers compensation coverage in the Southeast.
Agency Markets operates under a unique regional/national model that leverages the service-oriented focus of regional operations with the cost efficiencies of a national infrastructure to deliver quality products and services to agents and brokers and the customers they serve.
Commercial Lines:
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America First Insurance™ (Central Region)
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Colorado Casualty™ (Mountain Region)
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Golden Eagle Insurance™ (California)
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Indiana Insurance™ (Midwest Region)
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Liberty Northwest® (Pacific Northwest Region)
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Montgomery Insurance™ (Southeast Region)
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Ohio Casualty™ (Mid-Atlantic Region)
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Peerless Insurance™ (Northeast Region)
Personal Lines:
Other Product Lines:
Liberty Mutual Group ranks 86 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations based on 2008 revenues. The company has financial strength ratings of A (Excellent) from the A.M. Best Company, A2 (Good) from Moody’s Investors Service, and A- (Strong) from Standard & Poor’s.
Applied Systems Inc. develops, sells and supports insurance agency and broker management systems and provides services for accounting, customer, policy, claims management, and all related agent and broker functions. More than 130,000 users in 11,000 agencies of every size and complexity level use Applied Systems solutions built around core systems Epic, TAM, Vision and DORIS. In addition, the company leads the industry in agency-carrier real-time and batch communication solutions. www.appliedsystems.com
Contact:
Christopher Goetcheus, 774-279-5923
or Christopher.Goetcheus@LibertyMutual.com
