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QBE's General Casualty Goes Live on AQS Advantage
Flexible Architecture and Efficient Implementation Create Sound Partnership
| Source: AQS
HARTLAND, WI--(Marketwire - March 6, 2008) - AQS, Inc., a provider of policy administration
systems for commercial property/casualty insurance, announced that General
Casualty, a subsidiary of QBE Regional Companies (N.A.), Inc., has gone
into production on AQS Advantage, the AQS policy administration system for
commercial property/casualty lines. General Casualty also purchased AQS
Integrator, an administrative tool that monitors the ETL process, providing
success/failure notifications to targeted back-end systems.
"We needed to automate commercial lines that we'd been processing
manually," said Rich Kalina, General Casualty's Vice President for the
Wisconsin Region. "And we wanted to give our processing and underwriting
personnel automated quoting capabilities. We also wanted to work with a
partner who knew and understood our business. AQS provided that
partnership, efficiently implementing their system, and collaborating with
us at all levels -- from the executive leadership through the project
teams."
General Casualty initially went live in Wisconsin with Commercial Package
(Property, Crime, General Liability, and Inland Marine), including
Commercial Mass Marketing and Target Market programs, and Garage lines of
business. Twenty-five remaining core states will be rolled out over the
balance of the year. And 22 non-core states will be implemented in 2009.
"The relationship we've established with General Casualty is a model for
our business," said David Kerford, CEO at AQS. "Our companies worked
together as a team to determine the best solution for each implementation
step and together managed the scope of the project effectively and
efficiently. We look forward to quickly completing the roll out of their
remaining states."
About General Casualty Insurance
General Casualty is a property/casualty insurance provider headquartered in
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The company sells through 1,500 independent
agencies in 25 states and offers a complete line of coverages for homes,
autos, and businesses. General Casualty is rated "A" (Excellent) by A.M.
Best and reported $1 billion in premiums last year. Additional information
is available at www.generalcasualty.com.
About AQS, Inc.
AQS provides complete policy administration and business-support services
to commercial property and casualty insurers, supporting all transactions
for all lines of business in all 50 states. The AQS policy administration
system -- AQS Advantage -- is built for scalability and interoperability,
using Web services and .NET architecture to maximize extensibility, to
optimize integration with other systems, and to automate the entire policy
lifecycle. For more information, please visit www.aqssys.com.