About 120 policyholders are presently using the system. A Microsoft Windows-based risk management information system, Loss History Analyzer is designed to help agents and policyholders keep track of insured losses. The downloadable software, now in its third version, allows users to sort, select, analyze, report, graph and export monthly updates of loss information. The software supports boiler and machinery, business auto, general liability, inland marine, ocean cargo, package, property and workers compensation coverages. Ocean cargo policyholders and freight forwarders can laser print ocean cargo certificates of insurance and simplify the process of reporting shipment details for premium invoicing through an online connection.
Security is still the key issue with Internet-based electronic commerce applications.
We have been working on several levels of Internet security that would eventually allow a wide range of access to policyholder and agency-related information. But before we begin to send this information over the Internet, we want to be sure that this proprietary information is transmitted safely to the viewers for which it is intended. Bronson says agents will eventually have online access to claims processing in progress, policy viewing and billing information online when the security design is completed as early as the third quarter of 1998. He expects that many of the 500 Applied Systems agency automation system users will be using the interface by the end of the year. We want the interface to be as simple and efficient as possible without need for any sophisticated technical training.