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Norvax Builds New Web Presence And Automates Agent Quoting Using Quotebuilder™ To Help United Security Life & Health Reach More Agents
Chicago, IL — April 18, 2005— Norvax, a leading developer of web-based productivity tools for the insurance industry, and United Security Life and Health, a provider of individual health insurance plans, are proud to announce their collaboration. “Our collaboration came as a result of an exhaustive vendor search. We selected Norvax because of their insurance industry expertise,” states Sam Weiss, president of United Security Life & Health, “The Internet has changed the way insurance companies, their agents and consumers communicate. We needed a vendor to help us take advantage of this technology and Norvax was able to help us achieve our goals. Norvax has given our website the professional image we were looking for. They were extremely helpful and easy to work with.”
“We are pleased that United Security Life and Health (USL) chose us,” says Brandon Cruz, president and chief technical officer of Norvax, Inc., “I believe the key to our selection was our ability to demonstrate our experience in developing web-based solutions for insurance carriers and how our QuoteBuilder™ tool would allow their agents to be more productive. While USL will continue to supply agents with specialized quoting software, QuoteBuilder enables them to automate their agent quoting via the Internet. By embedding QuoteBuilder into their website USL is able to reduce the time necessary to build a quote while monitoring agent quoting activities, which they aren’t capable doing at this time. Additionally, it gives them the ability to reach more agents.”
“Reaching more agents and monitoring agent activity is critical to our continued growth. We wanted QuoteBuilder in addition to our current quoting options. We find that most agents rely on the Internet. By offering web-based quoting we believe agents will quote us more often” says Weiss. “With QuoteBuilder, our agents are able to fill in some basic information about the prospective insurance buyer and in under 60 seconds they can build a quote that compares our three plans. From there they can print it out or email it to the client. Beyond our agents, consumers can come to our website and develop quotes themselves. This allows them to be a more educated consumer. An added benefit of having this automated quoting system on our website is it enables us to quickly and simply keep rates up-to-date with minimal costs and man-hours.”
Cruz states, “Insurance carriers are able to update their rates by sending them to us in a spreadsheet. We import them and our quality assurance department tests the system for integrity. We currently have 40+ carriers who have chosen to have their rates built into QuoteBuilder and over 900 health insurance agents using this productivity tool. We believe as more carriers find out about the benefits of QuoteBuilder, they too will use or endorse our productivity tool to their agents.”
Weiss and Cruz state, “We are pleased with our relationship and the initial fruits of our collaboration. The first efforts will be on display with the launch of United Security Life and Health’s new website on Friday, February 18th. We look forward to continuing and expanding our relationship and collaboration.”
“As soon as our new website is launched we will begin a campaign letting our agents know of our new online quoting option. We are excited see what the results are of our efforts over the coming months,” says Weiss.
About Norvax
Established in 2001, Norvax is a Chicago-based company who provides a suite of web-based productivity enhancement tools, which help insurance brokers, agents and carriers connect with customers and transact business more efficiently.
In real world application environments, its suite of tools has proven to increase agent productivity over 2500%. Its suite of tools includes SiteBuilder — easily builds & maintains web sites; QuoteBuilder™ — displays carrier rates instantly online; BrokerOffice — a one-stop virtual office for the entire insurance sales process, from organizing customers, leads, applications, and brochures to email-based marketing solutions; and InsuranceProspect™ — provides brokers with pre-filtered prospects actively shopping for insurance.
Norvax also services large agencies and carriers with customized web site solutions and applications such as quoting engines, e-applications, Internet marketing strategies, and agent recruitment consulting.
For more information visit our website at www.norvax.com or contact Norvax at 1-866-4-NORVAX.
About United Security Life & Health
United Security Life Inc. is a Rosemont, IL-based company with more than 15 years of experience providing strong, efficient and affordable individual life and health insurance plans to consumers in five states — Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois and Nebraska. We offer consumers traditional, PPO and HSA (health savings accounts) health insurance plans along with additional products that provide security in the event of a disability, loss of life or tragic illness.
We pride ourselves in providing our agents and policyholders with common sense underwriting that enables United Security Life and Health to effectively accept more cases without compromising our profitability; personalized customer service from friendly, caring people with the experience and willingness to solve problems; and automated claims technology and courteous, caring, expert claims representatives that process all health claims promptly and accurately.
For more information visit our website at www.unitedsecuritylifeandhealth.com or contact us at 1-800-875-4422.
Contact
Jeremiah Desmarais
Vice President, Marketing
Norvax, Inc.
312.226.0027 x8223
jdesmarais@norvax.com
