AQS®, Inc., a leading provider of commercial policy administration solutions for property and casualty insurers, has announced a licensing agreement with General Casualty Insurance, an 82-year-old auto, home and business insurer based in Sun Prairie, Wis.
Through the agreement, AQS will provide General Casualty with its exclusive AQS/advantage™ solution- a comprehensive commercial lines policy administration system, as well as AQS/advantage Integrator, a back-end administrative tool used to monitor the ETL process, providing the client success/failure notifications to their target back-end systems.
AQS/advantage will be used to facilitate internal processing needs and services for the company’s external clients. General Casualty serves more than 1,500 agents based in 25 states, and has 1,800 employees in 15 states.
General Casualty chose the AQS/advantage system after a thorough evaluation. The systems’ ability to address integration requirements with other General Casualty systems and its “production ready” implementation convinced company officials to license the AQS system. “The evaluation also involved ‘hands-on’ demonstrations, technology meetings and reference checks. Our team dug deep in the system. We liked the intuitiveness, functionality, and the fact that they have multiple clients in production,” states Richard Kalina, General Casualty’s Senior Vice President of Commercial Lines.
“Through the use of Web services, XML and .NET technologies, the AQS/advantage solution is technically compatible with our environment. It met our criteria for architecture and flexibility, and it allows integration with current and future customer facing systems,” said Peter Logothetis, General Casualty’s Senior Vice President and CIO – QBE Regional Insurance.
“We are pleased that General Casualty chose AQS to be its policy administration solution partner,” stated David Kerford, President and CEO of AQS. “As we went through the evaluation process, we came to understand that we would work well together and form the kind of partnership that will ultimately lead to greater success for General Casualty. We are already off to a very good start.”
General Casualty Insurance Companies is rated A (Excellent) by insurance analyst A.M. Best. Founded in 1925, the company reported direct written premiums of $1.15 billion in 2006. Additional information on the company is available on the company’s Web site http://www.generalcasualty.com/
About AQS, Inc.
Since 1979, AQS has provided leading policy administration solutions for commercial property and casualty insurance carriers. In addition to its innovative Web-centric product, AQS/advantage™, and integration solution, AQS/advantage™ Integrator, AQS provides diverse professional service solutions to 35+ insurance companies throughout the United States. AQS/advantage™ supports all transactions for all commercial lines of business, in all states. The system is architected for scalability and leverages the Internet and innovative technologies such as Web services and .NET to automate and shorten the entire policy transaction lifecycle. AQS is a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner. For more information on AQS and the AQS/advantage product suite, please contact AQS or call Nancy Hines at 262.369.7500. Web site: http://www.aqssys.com/.