WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. & MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 16, 2026--
Input 1, a provider of billing, digital payments, and premium finance technology and tech-enabled services for the insurance industry, and OneShield, a provider of core systems for property and casualty insurers and managing general agents, today announced a strategic partnership agreement that makes Input 1's payments and premium finance capabilities a pre-integrated part of the OneShield platform.
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Under the agreement, carriers, MGAs, and program administrators running OneShield can adopt Input 1 digital payments and premium finance pre-integrated with OneShield.
“When we call something pre-integrated, that is a commitment to our clients that the connection is already built and already running before they arrive. Input 1 has been live in our client environments for years. Formalizing the partnership means insurance carriers, MGAs, and program administrators can turn on digital payments and premium finance at implementation instead of sourcing and connecting them separately,” said Rex Blazevich, President, OneShield Market Solutions.
The integration covers premium collection at new business, endorsement, and renewal. A broad array of payment methods is supported, including debit/credit card, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, and Venmo. Payment options are also presented alongside premium financing at the point of purchase, so the insureds make one choice in one flow rather than moving through a separate process for each.
Proven with mutual clients
Organizations already running Input 1 within OneShield include Forrest T. Jones & Company (FTJ), an insurance broker and administrator serving associations and employer groups with more than 1.5 million members, and ALPS, a carrier specializing in lawyers' malpractice insurance.
FTJ runs Input 1 digital payments within OneShield. FTJ processes more than 10,000 online submissions a year and binds most eligible policies without underwriter involvement.
ALPS uses Input 1 for agency-billed policies administered in OneShield, alongside standalone and recurring payments and its premium finance program.
“Carriers and MGAs shouldn't have to choose between the core system that fits their business and the payment experience their policyholders expect. This partnership delivers both broad flexibility and an excellent customer experience,” said Todd Greenbaum, Chief Executive Officer, Input 1.
Availability
The integrated capabilities are available now to OneShield clients. Organizations interested in adopting them can contact either company.
About OneShield
OneShield develops and delivers modern, flexible core systems to P&C carriers and MGAs. Built for speed, configurability, and real-world operations, OneShield's policy administration, billing, and claims products have a proven track record helping insurers modernize without the cost, risk, and timelines typically associated with other vendors. OneShield also offers our AI Hub, accelerating innovation and automation across our core systems and other insurance platforms.
Learn why insurers trust the OneShield team to deliver at OneShield.com.
About Input 1
Input 1 delivers technology-enabled billing, digital payments, and premium finance capabilities for the insurance industry through a single, integrated platform. Trusted by more than 2 million users and supporting the management of $16 billion in annual insurance premiums, Input 1 provides the infrastructure insurance organizations rely on to manage inbound premium payments and finance operations with consistency and confidence across North America.
For more information, please visit www.input1.com.
Input 1 Payments and Premium Finance Now Pre-Integrated with OneShield
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A news helicopter used by NBC and Telemundo crashed in a Los Angeles neighborhood and burst into flames, killing at least three people while reporters were covering the collision of an SUV and a city bus, officials and the news outlet said.
Colleen Williams, an NBC4 Los Angeles anchor, confirmed during live broadcasts that two people were killed Tuesday when the chopper went down. At least one other person was killed on the ground, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
“We are going to take a couple of minutes to think about that, process it,” Williams said, her voice shaking with emotion. Moments later the coverage cut off.
There were no immediate details on what may have caused the helicopter to crash. But an alarm can be heard sounding inside the helicopter's cockpit as it loses altitude in the final video the crew broadcast live before the crash. Just after the beeping noise starts, a woman’s voice says “uh oh.” The helicopter moves quickly away from the bus crash site and goes down. The woman says “You can’t pull up?” before the video stops as the chopper nears the ground.
The helicopter went down near a large storage facility in the neighborhood of Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley, officials said. News crews were reporting on a collision from earlier in the day, when an SUV slammed into the middle of a city bus, killing at least two people and injuring six others. Photos and videos online showed half the SUV lodged in the side of the bus.
At least four cars and two storage containers on the ground burned after the helicopter caught fire, which was quickly put out, according to officials. NBC4 reporter Robert Kovacik was at the bus scene and saw black smoke and rushed to the helicopter crash site. Dozens of police cars surrounded the scene as ambulances entered.
Two people were brought to a hospital, said Rico A. Gross, a fire department battalion chief. Their conditions were not immediately released.
Williams and the station’s website identified the dead aboard the helicopter as Eliana Moreno, a familiar voice for NBC4 and Telemundo 52 during the station’s aerial coverage, and pilot George Marciniw. Both were employees of Angel City Air, which operated the chopper.
Moreno, born in Orange County, joined the Angel City Air helicopter team in 2010, the same year she earned a broadcast journalism and political science degree from Chapman University. She reported for several Southern California news outlets and began flying with Marciniw in 2023, the NBC4 website said.
Marciniw grew up in Southern California and graduated from Burbank High School in 1974.
“I think a lot of us are still trying to process what happened, this terrible loss,” NBC4 reporter Lauren Coronado said during a newscast early Wednesday. She was standing near the crash site during the newscast and said a hazmat crew was cleaning up jet fuel.
In a tribute to Moreno and Marciniw, the newscast referred to them as “the team in the sky,” saying Moreno would often post videos from her job and was in awe of the view she had. News anchor Lynette Romero held a colleague’s hand and wiped away tears after hearing Moreno’s voice when one of her posts was played.
In an interview with the station, Esteban Jimenez, a pilot, said he had known Marciniw since the 1990s. He said Marciniw had been his instructor.
“I just talked to him on Sunday. We were talking about the aviation business and retiring,” he said.
Aviation safety expert Jeff Guzzetti said the alarm sounding in the helicopter’s final video sounds like the low rotor RPM warning horn that signals the main rotor is no longer spinning enough to keep the helicopter in the air.
“It just has all the earmarks of a potential loss of engine power and a dangerous decrease in the main rotor speed,” said Guzzetti who used to investigate crashes for both the NTSB and FAA.
Guzetti said the pilot appeared to be trying to do an autorotation maneuver to use the wind to get the rotor moving, so he could help cushion the impact. But there would have been little opportunity to do that because the helicopter had been hovering at a low altitude beforehand.
NBC4 and Telemundo 52 Los Angeles said in a statement they “are deeply saddened” and extended “heartfelt condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of those who lost their lives.”
“Losing five Angelenos is very painful,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said. “And I know this community of Chatsworth, hit hard, will be grieving for some time.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom thanked the emergency crews responding to both crashes and said in a post on X that “our hearts are with the victims and families.”
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration said personnel will arrive Wednesday to begin an investigation into the cause of the helicopter crash.
The station said this is the second aviation tragedy in its history. In 1977, a KNBC news helicopter crashed when it ran out of fuel while returning to the station after covering a wildfire in Santa Barbara, killing the pilot and camera operator. The pilot, former U.S. Air Force officer Francis Gary Powers, had been in the news years earlier when he was shot down and captured while flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union for the CIA, an ordeal portrayed in the movie “Bridge of Spies.”
There have been at least eight fatal crashes involving news helicopters in the U.S. since 2000, killing 16 people, according to a review of federal accident records and news accounts. They include a 2023 crash in a New Jersey forest that killed the pilot and a photographer aboard a helicopter used by Philadelphia station WPVI and a 2022 crash beside a Charlotte, North Carolina, interstate that killed a pilot and meteorologist during a training flight for WBTV.
This story has been updated to correct that Marciniw, not Moreno, graduated from Burbank High School.
Golden reported from Seattle.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attends a news conference at the scene of a helicopter crash in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
First responders work the scene after a helicopter crashed near a bus crash in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined by other officials walk to a news conference near the scene of a helicopter crash in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Two people hug each other behind police lines at the scene of a helicopter crash in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass talks during a news conference at the scene after a helicopter crash in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
In this still image provided by KABC-TV shows first responders work the scene after a helicopter crashed near a bus crash in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (KABC-TV via AP)
In this still image provided by KABC-TV shows First responders work the scene after a helicopter crashed near a bus crash in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (KABC-TV via AP)
In this still image provided by KABC-TV shows firefighters respond to a deadly bus crash, in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (KABC-TV via AP)
In this still image provided by KABC-TV shows a helicopter that crashed near a deadly bus crash, in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (KABC-TV via AP)
First responders work the scene after a helicopter crashed near a bus crash in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
