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West Bend moves claims operations to Guidewire Cloud. The carrier says the cloud implementation creates the data foundation needed to expand analytics and AI across claims workflows. Anthony R. O'Donnell // September 30, 2026 (Image credit: IIR.) West Bend Insurance Company (West Bend, Wisc.) has moved its claims operations onto Guidewire Cloud across all lines of business, establishing what the companies describe as a foundation for broader use of analytics and AI in claims. The implementation gives West Bend direct access to claims data within live operational workflows, which the carrier says will support improved claims decision-making and future expansion of AI capabilities. "Connecting our reliable data directly to live workflows is what makes AI in claims management possible," comments Murali Natarajan, SVP and CIO, West Bend. "By embedding analytics directly into the daily workflow, we can improve indemnity accuracy and deliver optimized claims service to our policyholders." Natarajan says the architecture is intended to create a claims environment that can learn from previously closed claims and apply those insights to subsequent ones. Building the Claims Data Foundation Guidewire (San Mateo, Calif.) positions the migration as an example of how insurers can prepare existing core workflows for AI and agentic applications by improving access to operational data. "Implementing Guidewire Cloud provides the direct, real-time data access required to turn raw claims information into actionable operational intelligence," comments Michael Mahoney, Head of Professional Services, Guidewire. Ernst & Young LLP (EY), a Guidewire Consulting member, led the implementation. "West Bend now has the foundation to shift from reactive claims handling to a proactive, data-driven strategy across the entire business," comments Chris Raimondo, EY Global and EY U.S. Insurance Consulting Leader. West Bend writes property, casualty and workers' compensation insurance in 14 states and offers surety coverage nationwide.

Ogon deepens InsuranceNow product investment ahead of Guidewire Connections. September 28, 2026, 11:00 GMT Ogon will host the InsuranceNow Collaboration Room, moderate a breakout panel, showcase its policyholder portal, and celebrate customers in Las Vegas. We bring carriers together and lead conversation, working through the most complex challenges our customers face and learning firsthand how their businesses are evolving." - Ankur Jaiswal SAN JOSE, CA, UNITED STATES, September 28, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / - Ogon Consulting, a Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partner specializing in Guidewire InsuranceNow, today announced its return to Guidewire Connections 2026 as a Gold Plus sponsor, alongside continued expansion of the digital engagement products it builds for InsuranceNow carriers. Connections 2026 takes place October 26-29 at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Ogon's digital engagement suite - Skyway, Jetstream, and Command Center - is built to help insurers extend the capabilities of Guidewire InsuranceNow into the experiences their policyholders and agents touch every day. Skyway and Jetstream are now live or in implementation with seven carriers. Each product is purpose-built for InsuranceNow and powered by the robust Guidewire API framework. "Guidewire InsuranceNow does a great deal for carriers and our job is to help them realize more of it," said Ankur Jaiswal, Co-Founder of Ogon Consulting. "That is where our product investment goes - building solutions that sit naturally alongside InsuranceNow and extend what carriers can offer their policyholders and agents." Enabling carriers to run InsuranceNow independently is a defining focus of Ogon's practice and the subject of the company's breakout session at Connections. "From Implementation to Independence: How to Become Self-Led on InsuranceNow and Drive Innovation" will feature a panel of InsuranceNow customers sharing firsthand accounts of their transitions to a self-led model. The session is designed to give attendees a candid, practical look at the varied paths carriers take to self-sufficiency and what it takes to sustain innovation once they get there. Connections remains the largest annual gathering of the InsuranceNow community and the one week each year when customers, partners, and the Guidewire team are in the same place. As sponsor of the InsuranceNow Collaboration Room, Ogon provides customers a dedicated space to meet peers, work through shared challenges, and engage directly with experts from both Ogon and Guidewire. The company will also host its annual celebration for InsuranceNow customers, a tradition that has become one of the community's regular fixtures. "There is no other week in the year when this much InsuranceNow expertise sits in one room," Jaiswal added. "We bring carriers together with the Guidewire teams who build the platform, and we lead the conversations that follow - working through the most complex challenges our customers face and learning firsthand how their businesses are evolving. That work shapes how we serve them the other fifty-one weeks of the year." About Ogon Consulting Ogon Consulting is a Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partner specializing in Guidewire InsuranceNow. Ogon supports 21 InsuranceNow customers with implementation, configuration, production support, upgrades and updates, and data migration, along with a digital engagement suite - Skyway, Jetstream, and Command Center - built to extend the InsuranceNow platform. Ogon is a Gold Plus sponsor of Guidewire Connections 2026. Media Contact Steve Timperley Director of Strategy, Ogon Consulting [email protected] 952-412-6748 Steve Timperley Ogon Consulting email us here Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above. You just read: September 28, 2026, 11:00 GMT EIN Presswire's priority is author transparency. We do our best to weed out false and misleading content. The content above is the sole responsibility of the author who makes it available. If you have any complaints, kindly contact the author above. Steve Timperley Ogon Consulting

StreamSettle joins Guidewire Vanguard Program to accelerate claims settlement. StreamSettle Sep 28, 2026, 06:00 ET StreamSettle joins Guidewire Vanguard Program to bring triple-blind settlement technology to P&C carriers, cutting litigation cycle times and claims costs. CYPRESS, Texas, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - StreamSettle, the industry's first triple-blind deal detection software for claims settlement, announced that the company has joined the Guidewire Insurtech Vanguards program, an insurtech incubator from Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE), the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. "Guidewire is the gold standard for P&C innovation, and we are honored to be named as an Insurtech Vanguard," says Chrysa Jones, COO, StreamSettle. "For decades, negotiation posturing has cost the industry millions in unnecessary litigation. We are proud to bring our triple-blind deal detection software to the Guidewire ecosystem, empowering carriers to cut through years of litigation and the associated costs." Insurtech Vanguards is a community of select startups and technology providers that are bringing novel solutions to the P&C industry. As part of the program, Guidewire provides strategic guidance to and advocates for the participating insurtechs, while connecting them with the Guidewire customer community. "We are thrilled to welcome StreamSettle to our Insurtech Vanguards community," said Laura Drabik, Chief Evangelist, Guidewire. "Their innovative approach enables insurers to identify settlement opportunities early, avoiding the risks and costs of unnecessary litigation while driving measurable value through improved cycle times and reduced loss adjustment expense." StreamSettle utilizes patent-pending, triple-blind encryption protocols to securely and confidentially test for overlap in disputing parties' True Settlement Thresholds (the number they'd be willing to settle for but would not say aloud to their opponent). When an overlap is detected, the parties have a binding settlement at the mathematical midpoint. If there's no overlap, no numbers are revealed, no fees are charged, and no leverage is lost, making StreamSettle uniquely risk-free. About StreamSettle StreamSettle was built by board-certified trial attorney Joe Jones, who grew tired of settling claims after years of costly litigation, for an amount that everyone would have been happy with at the beginning of the claim's life cycle. There just had to be a way to test for settlement overlaps without either side showing their cards. And thus, the idea of blind threshold testing was born. More than half of the claims that are negotiated on the StreamSettle platform reach immediate resolution, with 76% of those settlements captured pre-lit. The mission behind StreamSettle is to resolve claims before suit is even filed and catch the rest at their earliest mathematical possibility. For more information, visit www.streamsettle.com. Media Contact Chrysa Jones, StreamSettle, 1 281-705-4226, [email protected], https://streamsettle.com Joe Jones, StreamSettle, 1 832-419-6891, [email protected], https://streamsettle.com SOURCE StreamSettle