Insurance Online
When Risk & Insurance last visited Zurich U.S.’s Web site in March 1999, the Schaumburg, Ill.-based property and casualty insurer had just introduced RiskIntelligence, its fee-based Internet service that allows current or former insureds to access up-to-date claim, claimant, and payment reports for all lines of insurance (www.zuricbus.com, click on “RiskIntelligence”).
Now, users will have access to information from Zurich and other past or present carriers, so that they can compare data from different companies, years, etc. Zurich officials say the upgrade will give users, especially those who have more than one carrier, more comprehensive loss analysis reports on which to base critical decisions. Zurich officials say that the company is planning another release of the product during the first quarter of 2001. The new release of RiskIdntelligence will include user-friendly upgrades, including: a streamlined log-in process, improved response time, increased user capacity, and increased organization of reports for easier access. The site is secure.
Zurich-based Swiss Re has also upgraded its Web cap abilities. Among the company’s new products is CatNet, a new service offered on ELRiX (www.elrix.com), a B2B exchange that is designed to provide risk management tools for Swiss Re reinsurance clients.
CatNet is an Internet-based information service for assessing risks posed by natural hazards.
The product offers an interactive atlas that provides an overview of the hazard exposure and the insurance solution, as well as actual losses and potential losses from individual countries.
The company has also made available The Swiss Re Portal, which offers insurance and reinsurance data from the company’s sigma research that are downloadable as Excel sheets; access to more than 50 industry-specific news topics from more than 300 sources; and a library of insurance and reinsurance Internet links.