Anyone who challenges authority lives by the phrase, “Rules are made to be broken.” But what if the rules themselves are broken? Business rules, that is.

I spent some time on Monday speaking with people about underwriting and the problems insurers face in correctly performing this important function. That led to another discussion of business rules.

I spend a lot of time speaking with software vendors and one of the points they invariably bring up about their systems is how easy it is for their customers to infuse the systems with business rules. The problem some carriers have, though, is they have rules for writing rules about their rules. In other words, rules run amok.

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