OneShield has announced a strategic partnership with digital experience platform Airkit Inc.

Airkit’s templated insurance products give OneShield clients the capability to implement applications that unify customer data across web, messaging, chat, email, and voice channels—elevating to live agents when needed. For OneShield clients, internal teams can build simple to complex omnichannel applications with building blocks purpose–built for customer experience.

OneShield platforms are designed to give insurers functionality for handling the full lifecycle of policy administration from portals, policy management, billing, and claims administration, including extensive reporting and analysis.

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Akur8 and FCCI Insurance Group announced their partnership in an effort to enhance and streamline the commercial insurers’ underwriting process and pricing capabilities across most FCCI lines of business.

Through this agreement, Akur8 expands its presence in the U.S. within the commercial property and casualty insurance marketplace.

Specifically developed for insurers, Akur8’s product automates risk and rate modeling using proprietary transparent machine learning technology. It offers automated model building, transparent GLM outputs, data-driven underwriting, and no coding required.

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NeuralMetrics, which enables risk-assessment intelligence for property/casualty insurers, brokers, and agents, announced it has partnered with property/casualty industry service provider, Duck Creek Technologies, to offer carriers API access to critical NAICS code prefill for risk assessment.

The partnership provides property/casualty insurers with the ability to underwrite commercial lines policies quickly and accurately. Codes and data for additional lines of business, such as workers’ compensation and commercial umbrella, can be enabled via the partnership’s API integration.

Insurers using Duck Creek Policy can prefill underwriting information for quote generation, including account name, address, and NAICS six-digit codes. The NeuralMetrics service uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to provide data for evaluating risk eligibility, enabling straight-through processing, and reducing the time required to complete policy underwriting, quote, and binding.

Sources: OneShield Software, FCCI Insurance Group, NeuralMetrics