1. The Fruitvale Branch of Manzana Insurance is experiencing loss of business due to late renewals, and long lead times on new policies and quotes. These problems have created an opportunity for a competitor to take market share. Incorrect interpretation of company income for new policy versus policy renewals has placed an overemphasis on new policies that is causing loss of profitability.
The company has official priorities with respect to turn around time and processing order of insurance policies. Officially, the company policy is to use a first-in-first-out (FIFO) system to process policy requests. However, these priority rules are not followed. In practice, new policy requests are given priority over existing policies. The employee compensation plan does not support FIFO, due to the 25% commission paid on new policies. The turnaround and scheduling time calculations are skewed to use an exceptionally high 95% of worst case Standard Completion Time (SCT) to determine the average processing time. The combination of these factors has created a situation where product priorities and scheduling inaccuracies are causing Manzana to be unable to meet company production and profitability goals.
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From the analysis, there is no bottleneck resource, however, Underwriting Team #1 is operating at the highest capacity. When the data in Exhibit 6 is analyzed, it is obvious that there was been a dramatic increase in the number of lost renewals beginning in 1990. This is a result of the 1990 underwriting department reorganization, specifically, the assigning of agents to specific underwriting teams. Exhibit 7 reveals the nature of the problem: individual underwriting departments can have too many policies to process if the assigned territory is has a high number of policy request, while the other underwriting teams may have excess capacity.
Underwriting is the assessment of risk that a potential customer may have, this allows the company to offer the customer a certain amount of coverage. This is something critical for
In the second year of business at Golf Challenge Corporation the company is struggling. The cost of their inventory is rising, and they are in grave danger of losing their bank loan (their prime source of financing) due to not meeting the required financial ratios agreed and set forth by the bank at the time the loan was given. The owner comes up with a solution, and figures that instead of using Last in-First out (LIFO) the company can use First in-First Out inventory cost system (FIFO) and meet their required financial ratios set forth by the bank. Ultimately, Golf Challenge Corporation should not submit documents to the bank using FIFO as opposed to their previous system LIFO in order to meet the bank requirements
In this critical analysis I will review the failures of negotiation for a contract renewal between TexasAgs Oil Company and Cousins Corporation. The key failures identified were: planning the negotiation, identifying BATNA, role
Aetna, Inc. was established in 1853 and offers health insurance options for purchase. The main product portfolios include health insurance products with medical, dental, pharmacy, behavioral health, group life and disability plans. This essay will analyze the company’s structure and environment and provide recommendations on strategies that the company could take to improve performance.
One of the key issues faced by McGraw is that there is a large gap between his projections for next year, and what the manager’s are promising him . His goal is to obtain a 15% increase in the operating income from his division (OM, LR and NP). The managers are projecting a decrease of 5.2% from the current year. In absolute terms there is a gap of $27 MM in the projected divisions operating income.
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Lisa’s insurance broker did not make sure she had the proper coverage to reduce her liability if something were to happen to the art gallery. Lisa’s insurance broker, Homer, broke his fiduciary duty to Lisa by not ensuring she had the proper coverage she needed; given that Lisa was responsible for the safekeeping of the artwork that was on consignment. Homer should have taken into consideration that nearly all her inventory, which was on consignment, would not be insured if a fire occurred. Nonetheless, Homer reassured Lisa that she was “well covered” with her policy when she should have had a policy where she would be covered for losses to artwork on consignment as well as fires that didn’t originate on her building
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Finally, I have suggested some recommendations for the issues that I have mentioned above. In reference to the first issue, it will be profitable for the company to change to level monthly production.
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...e steps that are required to be addressed while coming to deal with vendors. The Proposed idea, looks satisfactory in meeting the outcomes. One thing that should be ensured is that they should incorporate the clauses pertaining to risk in the plan.