ACORD, the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development, is the insurance industry's nonprofit standards developer, a resource for information about object technology, EDI, XML and electronic commerce in the United States and abroad.
ACORD's most widely known accomplishment is the publication and maintenance of a huge library of standardized forms for the insurance industry. Most claims in the U.S. are recorded or transmitted on ACORD forms.
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