Ebix.com Adds Auto Insurers to Lineup.Several auto insurers have joined online insurance aggregator Ebix.com Inc. to provide quotes via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . A total of 13 carriers will be available through its Web site (www.ebix.com), the company said. The online aggregator recently added Amica Home & Auto; Great American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of Insurance Co.; Permanent General; Ashland Ashland (ăsh`lənd). 1 Industrial city (1990 pop. 23,622), Boyd co., E Ky., on terraces along the Ohio River near the influx of the Big Sandy; settled 1786, inc. 1854. ; and Instant Auto Insurance Co. Its other new addition, Kemper Response Insurance, already is equipped to provide real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. quotes, the company said. Ebix.com uses a real-time quoting system to connect consumers with insurers' individual rating engines. It offers access to more than 1,000 agents representing about 2,000 carriers, as well as 30 insurers quoting directly, such as Penn Treaty Group, Western-Southern Life Assurance Co. and Pioneer. Besides auto coverage, Ebix.com offers quotes for homeowners, dental, vision, life and long-term-care policies. It also offers a virtual marketplace called Ebix.mall, which allows consumers to define their policy coverages and seek competitive quotes from insurers or agents/brokers. Jeff Larson, director of business development for Ebix.com, said the company wants to add additional insurers and increase the coverage areas of its insurer An individual or company who, through a contractual agreement, undertakes to compensate specified losses, liability, or damages incurred by another individual. An insurer is frequently an insurance company and is also known as an underwriter. base. |
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