System and method for automatically generating automobile insurance certificates from a remote computer terminal

• US 6,526,386 B1
• Filed: 06/10/1999
• Issued: 02/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cigna Insurance Company (CIGNA Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Ace Limited (Sanwa Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Chu, Patrick, Dean, Lloyd M., Chapman, Ellen, Isherwood, Kathy L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rimell, Sam
• Application Number:
  US09/329,660
• Time in Patent Office: 1,356 Days
• Field of Search: 705/4, 705/2, 705/3
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

A system and method for generating automobile insurance certificates from a remote computer terminal connected by a computer network to a central computer, wherein an expiring automobile insurance policy is identified by viewing on the remote computer terminal data, stored on the central computer, relating to expiring policies and an automobile insurance certificate relating to the expiring policy is ordered electronically, in response to such identification, from the remote computer terminal.

Claims

1. A method of generating at least one of a cancellation certificate, a renewal certificate, and a proof of insurance for an automobile, from at least one remote computer terminal connected by a computer network to a central computer, comprising the steps of:

automatically flagging at least one expiring policy stored on the central computer;

generating a list of expiring policies according to said automatically flagging step;

notifying a local user of at least one expiring policy from the list of the expiring policies requiring user action by the local user;

receiving at least one user action instruction from the local user, wherein the at least one user action instruction is in accordance with an examining by the local user of the at least one of the expiring policies; and

electronically ordering and printing the at least one of the cancellation certificate, the renewal certificate, and the proof of insurance at the local user in accordance with said receiving step.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the proof of insurance is a standardized proof of insurance certificate in accordance with an FH1 form.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the cancellation certificate is a standardized termination certificate in accordance with an FH1 form.

4. A method in accordance with any of claims 1, 2, or 3, wherein the automobile insurance policy relates to a black car.

5. A system for generating at least one of a cancellation certificate, a renewal certificate, and a proof of insurance for an automobile, from at least one remote computer terminal connected by a computer network to a central computer, comprising:

automated means for flagging at least one expiring policy stored on a central computer;

means for generating a list of the expiring policies in accordance with the at least one expiring policy from said automated means for flagging; and

means for electronically ordering and locally printing the at least one of the cancellation certificate, the renewal certificate, and the proof of insurance in response to a user action responsive to said means for generating.