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Listings Updated for Winter/Spring
2009 Cycle
Also see Cross Domain Working Groups
ACORD/NAILBA Pending Case Status
Site: http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-acordnailbapendcs/
Email: life-acordnailbapendcs@teams.acord.org
Chair: Karen Mottley, Prudential; Jeff Kraber, NAILBA
See Proposal
The ACORD Case Status Notification message (#1125) is one of the more widely implemented messages in the ACORD LAH community. The group is working to:
- Update the current ACORD/NAILBA implementation guide to reflect more recent versions of the ACORD Standard.
- Prepare maintenance requests to update the ACORD Standard.
- Validate a User Guide developed for a non-technical audience.
- Focus on ACORD Case Status Notification transactions
(125/1125).
- Update the Guide to include more recent versions of the NAILBA EDI formats (if necessary).
- Propose additional updates to the model and the guides based on discussions with the NAILBA Technology subcommittee.
Annuity Forms
Site: http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-frma
Email: life-frma@teams.acord.org
Chair: Wendy Riihimaki, Allstate
See Proposal
This group is working to ensure standardized forms are designed in a way that would eliminate different versions of the same form for different carriers and different states. In addition to the standardization of other processes, the team is also committed to providing feedback toward the maintenance of standardized forms, such as form 951 - 1035 Exchange/Rollover/Transfer, as the forms are impacted by regulation or member request.
Annuity Products
Site: http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-anwg
Email: life-anwg@teams.acord.org
Chair: Steve Kilbon,
Hartford Life; Sandy Hampel, EbixExchange, Julie Appleget, AEGON
See Proposal
This working
group provides a
forum to address the
Annuity product
needs and ensures
the appropriate
standards are
documented to allow
for consistent
implementations.
This working group continues to:
- Refine and
expand the
existing ACORD
Life Standards
as related to
annuity
products.
- Where
applicable,
update the
respective
implementation
guides based
on actual
usage to maintain
their accuracy.
- Provide
support
resources for
ongoing and
expanding
implementations
of annuity
product related
messages.
Employee Benefits
Site: http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-empben
Email: life-empben@teams.acord.org
Chairs: Burt Tower, Mortenson, Matzelle & Meldrum Inc., & Tim Jordan, The Hartford
See Proposal
The group is working to further develop ACORD standards to support the employee benefits business within the insurance industry. The group plans to complete the development and forms implementation guides for the Basic RFP, Group Life, STD and LTD forms in preparation for pilot. The group will also support pilot testing and implementations and will submit updates to the ACORD LAH data model based on pilot findings. Also in scope is the expansion of the ACORD standards within the Framework to support RFI and RFP for life.
Illustration Transaction
Site:
http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-illustrations
Email: life-illustrations@teams.acord.org
Chair: TBD
See Proposal
This group will complete work on an Illustration Implementation Guide while removing gaps in the existing Illustration Request Transaction. The result will be a fully documented, service oriented transaction that can be used as an interface to calculation engines and/or full illustration services.
Life Architecture (LAWG)
Site: http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-awg
Email: life-awg@teams.acord.org
Chair: Jim Brain, AEGON
See Proposal
LAWG serves to reduce variations in the interpretation of the
Standard. It can
produce written recommendations on the best practices for dealing
with common problems in the use of the data model and improve
the uniformity within the data model by reviewing proposals
from Working Groups with specific business focus. The LAWG's
primary role is to develop, establish, communicate, and enhance
the architectural and technical structure of the Life/Annuity/Health
Standards. In addition, they: give architectural advice regarding
problems referred to us by individual member companies or by
a working group; develop proposals for enhancements to the standard
that do not fall within the scope of any active group; act as
a forum for post-subcommittee cleanup of MR items; and serve
as a liaison with the Joint Technical Efforts that are active.
Life Products
Site:
http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-ppfl/
Email: life-ppfl@teams.acord.org
Chair: Suzanne Brazeal, VERTEX Inc.
See Proposal
The overall purpose of this working group is to provide a forum to address the Life product needs and to ensure the appropriate standards are documented to allow for consistent implementations. The Life Product working group produced a draft implementation guide for Product Profile for Life (PPfL) product standards and is in need of a forum to address new business needs by developing enhancements and refinements to the ACORD LAH Standard.
Life Reinsurance
Site: http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-reinsurance
Email: life-reinsurance@teams.acord.org
Chair: Ellen Fedorowicz, JNL; Simon Bell, LOGIQ3
See Proposal
The group is currently supporting pilot implementations and will support these this cycle while providing a forum for any implementation guide enhancements. They will also explore possible usage and adoption in the UK and European markets.
Long Term Care Forms
Site: http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-formsltc
Email: life-formsltc@teams.acord.org
Chair: Sandra Latham, LTCI Partners
See Proposal
The ACORD Long Term Care Forms Working Group creates standardized forms and messages for use within the Long Term Care Insurance sector. They are currently working to:
- Create
activity diagram
outlining high
level carrier
process.
- Determine what
changes, if any,
need to be made
to the LAH
Standard to
support LTC
applications.
- Develop a New
Business Message
Sub-Tran message
for LTC
applications.
- Analyze current
Pending Case
Download Message
to see if any
additions are
needed for LTC
products.
- Determine and
prioritize
development of
the LTC forms
that correlate
to the process.
Forms
development will
include
standardization
of the data
elements
represented on
the form,
eLabels (logical
XML tags
assigned to all
fill-in fields)
and XPath
mappings from
the Forms to the
message(s).
Forms will be
assessed to
align with this
approach.
MR Review
Site: http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-mr
Email: life-mr@teams.acord.org
Chairs: Karen Mottley, Prudential; Lynn Gadue, VERTEX
See Proposal
The MR Review Working Group is an open forum where all members who desire to can review and comment together on proposed changes (MRs) to a Standard and recommend clarifications and/or alternate proposed solutions. This forum will allow for the development of more universal solutions. The group can provide recommendations for approval or reasons for declination of an MR which will be noted on the MR reports along with corresponding comments (if provided) by the MR author(s), and such content will be included in the voting ballot materials.
Policy LifeCycle
Site: http://teams.acord.org/apps/org/workgroup/life-plc
Email: life-plc@teams.acord.org
Chairs: Pat Graham, Prudential; Laura D’Anna, EbixExchange
See Proposal
The core
objective of this
group is to develop
implementation
guides describing
how to manage
policies - proposed
(New Business),
pending (Issue &
Underwriting), and
active (In-force) -
to support all lines
of business
(Annuity, Life,
Disability/Health)
and all distribution
channels (captive,
brokerage, bank /
securities, direct,
other).
This cycle, the group will review and prioritize all outstanding Working Group issues, resolving those considered to be critical as well as review of all messages impacted by work completed to-date. In addition they will:
- Identify and
complete
changes.
- Review the 103
New Business
Message.
- Revise the 103
to support Part
B.
- Document both
the request and
response
messages in the
Implementation
Guide.
- Use the
information the
PLC WG gathers
about the 103 to
facilitate the
work being done
by the AML
Working Group.
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