Moving Into its 6th month of production with Maple Tech’s Aspire Information System, Pinelands Insurance Company is realizing significant gains in workplace productivity, Maple Technologies announced today.

Maple Technologies announced today a joint initiative with Princeton-based Definitive Insurance Management Services, Inc. focused on providing bundled solution services to the Captive and Alternative Risk Transfer markets.

Maple Technologies announced today that it is sponsoring this years’ Captive Manager of the Year Award, which will be presented by Maple’s Chief Executive at the black-tie gala event.

Maple Technologies announced today that it is delighted to sponsor the upcoming 2008 Vermont Captive Insurance Association Conference.

Maple Technologies announced today that The Taft Companies, based out of Towson, Maryland, have joined Maple Tech’s initiative to develop an end-to-end solution for Captive Manager operations.

Maple Technologies completed the implementation of their Aspire information System for Positive Physicians Insurance Exchange. Aspire’s web-based real-time interface will handle electronic application processing, rating, underwriting validation, policy issuance, endorsement processing, premium accounting, reinsurance analytics as well as claims administration functions for the Pennsylvania insurance carrier.

Maple Technologies announced today that Robert M. Willis, former Commissioner of the Department of Banking and Insurance for the District of Columbia, has agreed to support and participate in Maple’s beta development of a Captive Manager’s Information System.

Once every two years, industry-leading consultant Celent conducts an evaluation of Policy Administration Systems available from the industry’s technology vendors, and publishes a report with their findings.

Maple Technologies announced today that it would be one of the sponsors for the upcoming captive association conference to be held in Burlington, Vermont later this year in August.

The enhancements to Maple Technologies’ Aspire Captive Suite product will focus specifically on firms engaged in the business of providing data management, actuarial reporting, financial reporting, statistical reporting and other data-mined processes critical for managers who are responsible for Captives, Fronting carriers and Risk Retention Groups.

Aspire’s Administration Console will allow clients the ability to make real-time changes to rate tables, rating algorithms, underwriting rules, and other table driven elements through the web-based interface. In addition, the Console will also maintain a complete and concise history of all such changes tracking values and effective periods for such criteria.

Adriatic Insurance Company rolled into production today with Maple Tech’s Aspire Information System, which will handle electronic application processing, rating, underwriting validation, policy issuance, endorsement processing, premium accounting, reinsurance transactional management as well as claims administration functions for the carrier. Aspire is a web-based real-time information system that will fully automate Adriatic’s business process through an ASP hosted e-commerce platform.

Maple Technologies announced new incentive-based pricing plans with extended cost amortization options for small property and casualty insurance carriers, as well as startups, to level the playing field and offer these carriers advanced technologies to compete for business more effectively.

Maple Technologies welcomes Timothy Aumueller as the newest member of its business development team, in its quest to grow and expand Maple’s product base.

Maple Technologies deployed an Add-On Commercial Package Policy Module today for Commercial Insurance Alliance; configuration implementation was completed for the Florida insurer in 30 business days.

CIS Insurance Group is the national administrator for the Program for Sovereign Indian Nations, which affords insurance protections for tribal Indian nations throughout the United States. Comparable to a municipal-level type program, CIS provides coverage to tribal governments covering a variety of insurance exposures resulting from diverse tribal operations, including gaming, as well as tribal government agencies (such as school systems, local law enforcement agencies and the like).

Maple Technologies announced new features in its Aspire Information System product that will allow on-demand data-extraction capability for their clients using a number of different format types including the new Excel©-XML format.

Maple’s Aspire web-based property and casualty policy and claims management information system currently supports users with Windows© based operating systems using Internet Explorer© version 6 or 7 as their web browser.

Maple Technologies is beginning a 90-day speed-to-market customization for Pinelands’ complete IT solution to support the carrier’s multi-state commercial automobile business platform. Aspire’s web-based real-time interface will handle electronic application processing, rating, underwriting validation, policy issuance, endorsement processing (including out-of-sequence endorsements), premium accounting, reinsurance reconciliation as well as claims administration functions for the Pennsylvania insurance carrier.

Maple’s flagship product, Aspire, includes a comprehensive policy management system that was recently enhanced to provide even greater user-functionality for Maple’s clients. Insurance carriers and MGA’s, who deal with large risk schedules for their insureds, will now be able to take full advantage of a simple “copy and paste” type functionality to complete their data entry needs. This will allow Aspire users to complete data entry in seconds what previously took hours, or in some instances even days.