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I go where the puck is going to be, not where it is. - Wayne Gretzky
Insurance Case Study - United Financial Consulting Group
UFC is an insurance brokerage firm based in Florida with insurance consultants located throughout Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Colombia. They represent various life, health, disability, and travel insurance from various insurance companies located in Denmark, Isle of Man, and Louisiana. Their objective was to motivate their salesforce located throughout South America, by providing faster turn a faster turn around on the approval of policies and improving communication channels across the board to enhance service to the sales team and clients.
Challenge:
- Eradicate the traditional inefficiencies of heavily paper-based business environments in various branch offices
- Streamline unintegrated and manual processes for submittal of new business applications, customer inquires, and agent's commission inquiries
- Provide access to underwriters, insurance consultants, and administrators to collaborate in a centralized location with restricted permissions for certain information
- Find a way to provide users with access to their documents, monitor workflow processes from multiple levels, and enter data in a database tailored for the insurance processes
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Solutions:
Unilogix was customized as their on-line workstation to:
- Automate and route work to support online health claims and insurance policy submissions
- Allow insurance consultants to receive immediate responses from UFC administrators
- Integrate to image scanning and document management and storage solutions for online application submission processing
- Balance workloads and intelligently route work to the appropriate administrator or insurance consultant based on business rules
- Provide online progress monitoring, application, and claims status tracking, archiving, auditing, and routing history
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Results:
- Reduced the cost and time associated with processing claims, renewals, pending commissions, policy changes, and new business applications
- Increased productivity by decreasing the duplication of tasks that takes place at various levels when processing the company's correspondence
- Eliminated the need to re-key data into multiple systems
- Improved communication, accountability and workload management
- Improved agent, staff, and customer satisfaction
- Provided accurate insurance information over diverse channels
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