THE HARTFORD WINS EIGHT ACORD AWARDSHartford, Conn.-based The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. received eight awards from the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD): the Greatest Dollar Volume of Premium Award; the Greatest Growth in Number of Trading Partners Award; the Greatest Growth in Number of Implementations Award; the Greatest Number of Direct Trading Partners Award; the Business Integration Enabler Award-Internal; the Business Integration Enabler Award-External; the Web Services/SOA Award, and the AL3/XML Data Transformation Award.
HARLEYSVILLE APPOINTS TECH LEADERSHIP
Harleysville Insurance, the Harleysville, Pa.-based P&C insurer has made three appointments to broaden and strengthen its commercial lines processing, customer support, systems architecture and agency/field automation functions: William Page has been named vice president of operations and services; Stephen Byrne has been named assistant vice president and chief architect; and John Philip has been named assistant vice president of agency and field automation. In his position, Page oversees Harleysville's customer service unit, as well as the company's commercial lines processing centers in Harleysville, Pa., and Worcester, Mass. Byrne is responsible for design and implementation of packaged information systems and the integration of software architectures that support Harleysville's core business functions. Philip oversees all automation initiatives that support Harleysville's agents and field organization.
