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The combined company will be a ‘one-stop-shop’ to help employers manage risk and run safer, more profitable workplaces, executives say.

The app uses a phone’s camera to capture and upload images of documents and authorization forms that are needed to evaluate claims, and enables users to monitor their claims’ status.

Higher benefit maximums and online payment option allow for easy, convenient quoting and administration of policies, the insurer says.

Mo Tooker will oversee underwriting across small commercial, middle market, large commercial and personal lines segments and will lead the development of the company’s underwriting approach for new markets and growth areas, The Hartford said.

Pair Programming and other Agile development methods are helping Allstate and others find the best route on their digital journeys.

Allen Reichman, 54, and three others scammed Oklahoma regulators in the $37.5 million leveraged buyout of Providence Property & Casualty Insurance Co., according to prosecutors.

More than a dozen mergers and acquisitions in the reinsurance market, valued in the billions of dollars, have occurred in the last four months.

Eric Pruss will lead personal-insurance products and also oversee the farm and ranch insurance business; he previously worked for Fireman’s Fund Insurance, which was acquired by Ace Ltd.

The mobile app is intended to help driver- education instructors access, record, organize and monitor the progress of students during behind-the-wheel instruction.

Most of these advanced capabilities are being driven by a combination of five elements: analytics, data, digital channels, modern applications and innovative business practices.