Co-operators moves to Guidewire cloud for claims management
The transition encompasses most of Co-operators' property and casualty (P&C) lines of business across the provinces it operates in.
It also includes the transition of its subsidiary, Sovereign Insurance, into the same cloud-based system.
This follows the migration of Co-operators' Guidewire PolicyCenter and Guidewire BillingCenter to the Guidewire Cloud Platform earlier in 2023.
Co-operators chief information officer and executive vice-president Harry Pickett said: 'This was a multi-year transformation for Co-operators, a successful result of collaboration across our P&C Business and Technology teams and Guidewire. We leveraged our learnings from our previous PolicyCenter and BillingCenter migration to accomplish this modernisation on time and with little disruption to our claims process.
'The full suite on the Guidewire Cloud Platform provides us with more stability and security, and establishes a solid foundation for future enhancements, enabling us to be faster in implementing new features and capabilities that will deliver value to our stakeholders.'
The organisation has been a client of Guidewire since 2007.
Guidewire professional services head Michael Mahoney stated: 'We congratulate Co-operators on its successful ClaimCenter implementation project on Guidewire Cloud Platform and concluding its full InsuranceSuite migration. We look forward to working with the company to grow its business and continue providing financial security for Canadians and their communities, as it has done for the past 80 years.'
Last month, Argentine insurer San Cristóbal Seguros deployed Guidewire InsuranceSuite on Guidewire Cloud.
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