Broker Buddha, a client digital engagement platform for insurance agencies, announced its partnership with Herald, which builds digital infrastructure for commercial insurance.

The partnership aims to enable insurance agencies to simplify their client’s experience while improving the way they do business with their carrier partners. By combining Broker Buddha’s online smart forms with Herald’s carrier connectivity application programming interface, this partnership delivers a platform for businesses and their agents to get quotes and bind policies for small and middle-market businesses.

Agents will be able to access carrier quotes from their preferred carriers using Broker Buddha and Herald’s API. This allows Broker Buddha to deliver an end-to-end experience for more than 60 insurance products across eight lines of business, including seven supported cyber products and six supported BOP products from both admitted and surplus lines markets.

From the partnership, Broker Buddha will be able to offer automatic quotes for more than 400 classes of business. Herald’s list of API-enabled insurance products means that agencies using Broker Buddha will be able to place coverage for small and medium business owners across the country.

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Orion180, an insurance solutions provider leveraging advanced technology to serve independent insurance agents and homeowners in the Southeastern U.S., announced that it has partnered with Nearmap to utilize its aerial imagery to improve its risk selection and streamline the underwriting process.

Orion180 offers a combination of proprietary technology and customer-centric human interactions. The integration between the two partners will be delivered through a customized API.

Surveying more than 100 million parcels in the U.S. up to three times per year, Nearmap offers location insights for insurers, remote roof property assessments, and pre- and post-catastrophe imagery.

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Cloverleaf Analytics, a provider of insurance intelligence solutions, announced that Lititz Mutual Insurance Company has selected Cloverleaf to consolidate and manage insurance data as part of its migration to Guidewire InsuranceNow.

Lititz Mutual is transitioning from a data system serving 15 lines of business, including farmers and homeowners insurance, to InsuranceNow and will be utilizing the Cloverleaf Insurance Intelligence platform to consolidate the data and provide self-service advanced analytics.

Cloverleaf’s insurance-centric business intelligence experience serves as the foundation for Cloverleaf’s insurance intelligence platform that leverages a combination of tools and emerging technologies.

Lititz Mutual and its three affiliates — Penn Charter Mutual, Farmers’ & Mechanics’ Mutual, and Livingston Mutual — are collectively known as the Lititz Group of Mutual Insurance Companies, offering more than 130 years of experience writing property/casualty insurance in nine states.

Cloverleaf Analytics aims to enable carriers in diverse lines of business to create modern products that help insurers remain competitive against new market entrants.

Sources: Broker Buddha, Orion180, Cloverleaf Analytics