ACE USA’s Senior Vice President, ACE Environmental Risk, William P. Hazelton, has won the 2009 Risk Innovators award in the category of Construction from Risk & Insurance magazine. The award promotes the achievements of those who advance innovation not just within their company, but for the entire insurance industry.

WellPoint, Inc. has been honored with a 2009 BlueWorks^® award for their work on the Journey Forward program, a collaboration among the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS), the UCLA Cancer Survivorship Center, Genentech, Inc. and WellPoint.

The goal of Journey Forward is to improve management and continuity of care for cancer survivors throughout their lives.

American Family Insurance customers will find it easier to file a claim or pay their bill by using a new smartphone application. Available for both the iPhone and Blackberry Storm the new application provides on-the-spot service for activities such as filing a claim at the scene of an accident, finding a nearby repair shop, or locating the nearest American Family agent.

Insurance software and service provider, Duck Creek Technologies, Inc. has been recognized in Celent’s latest report, US Property/ Casualty Rating Systems: ABCD Vendor View 2009. The report profiled Duck Creek along with eight other vendors using the Celent ABCD Vendor View analysis framework.