By Ara C. Trembly

When I first migrated to the insurance industry from the technology industry some eight years ago, I was astounded at the antiquated level of technology being employed in insurance.

What amazed me was how far behind the technology curve the insurance industry seemed to be. Insurersonce among the pioneers of computing as mainframe userswere still slogging away on those same systems over 20 years later, and they had no intention of changing that situation.

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