Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Life Insurance Co. has extended its relationship with the MIB Group, Inc., of Westwood, Mass., by adding MIBs Select Membership for use by the Nationwide Health Plans division to improve underwriting intelligence.

Empire Life Insurance Company, based in Kingston, Ont., has tapped Atlanta-based DWL and its DWL Insurance for Group, a unified business application that will connect Empires brokers so they can access requests from the insurers back-end administration system.

Blue Shield of California (BSC) has signed a three-year license with DxCG, Inc., for its Diagnostic Cost Groups and Rx Groups models. The software models use medical and pharmacy claims information to predict health-care costs and evaluate historical performance. BSC, based in San Francisco, is the ninth Blue Cross Blue Shield Association member to use Boston-based DxCGs software solutions.

American National Insurance Company (ANICO) of Galveston, Texas, has reached an agreement with Universal Conversion Technologies of Addison, Texas, to have Universal convert 2.7 million ANICO policy records from four different sources to two target administration systems.

Philadelphia Insurance Companies has reached an agreement with AQS, Inc., of Hartland, Wis., to license the AQS policy administration software V³ Galileo.

Arch Capital, a Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance company, has selected Riskclick, Inc., of New York City, to provide the core technology for its underwriters to manage property/casualty placement activity in real time.

Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Company of McPherson, Kan., has gone into production with automated workflow and document management solutions that it acquired from AcroSoft Corporation of Columbia, S.C., for its claims department.

Old Mutual U.S. Life has entered into a licensing agreement with COSS Development Corporation to use the COSS customized illustration system, Iris, for Old Mutuals Americom Life & Annuity Insurance Company.

Amica Life Insurance Co. of Providence, R.I., has selected Life Portraits Enterprise Solution from Fipsco, a unit of Fiserv, Inc., of Brookfield, Wis. Life Portraits will support Amicas life insurance telemarketing programs.

Philadelphia-based CIGNA Retirement & Investment Services has chosen Dialogue from Exstream Software of Lexington, Ky., to produce newly designed retirement statements customized to the needs of its plan sponsors and participants.

The Amerisure Insurance Companies, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Mich., has gone live with PowerComp, a multi-state workers comp policy processing system from Denver-based Taliant Software.

Manulife USA, a subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation of Toronto, has signed a seven-year applications outsourcing agreement with Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif.

Cincinnati Insurance Companies has gone live with its Kansas business on the Diamond System, a property/casualty policy processing system from Applied Systems, Inc., of University Park, Ill.

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, a member of the Sun Life Financial group, has selected Worldinsure Limited of Toronto to provide new business processing software.

Americo Financial Life and Annuity Company, located in Kansas City, Mo., has completed implementation of a risk management system from Annuity Systems Incorporated, a Toronto- based risk management firm for equity-linked insurance products.

Several insurance carriers have signed contracts with ImageRight of Conyers, Ga., to purchase the ImageRight Insurance Focused Document Management and Workflow Solution. Among those signing up were Catholic Mutual Group of Omaha, Neb., Preferred Mutual Insurance of New Berlin, N.Y., Connecticut Underwriters of Portland, Conn., Lebanon Mutual Insurance Company of Cleona, Pa., and North Star Mutual Insurance of Cottonwood, Minn.