Chris McMahon

Dina Shapiro takes over as head of tax for the broker, a position she held previously for American Express and GMAC.

Andre Stewart is named to newly created position of SVP, underwriting, custom accounts, by the medical professional liability insurer.

The new app features direct access to ACE’s medical and emergency assistance partners and location-specific safety alerts, including for diseases, crime, civil unrest, acts of terrorism and natural disasters.

The Touchstone catastrophe modeling platform and suite of CAT models will be rolled out across the organization to support a range of risk management needs.

The broker has launched GC ForCas, a stochastic modeling platform to help insurers understand their exposure to casualty catastrophe losses.

Commercial lines prices have only risen 2% in the past year, and for workers' comp, even that would be good, says Towers Watson.

Online platform automates the submission process for insureds, agents, brokers and carrier partners.

The Native-American-owned insurer will implement SurePower Innovation in the cloud as part of a core administration and automation project.

The state-run insurer has rolled out InsuranceSuite as part of an organization-wide transformation initiative, including underwriting, policy administration, billing and claims management.

The global reinsurer will deploy Launchpad Marketing Cloud, a multi-channel marketing platform designed to enable clients to select prospects and policyholder audiences to market life insurance.

Now that consumers have access to low-cost devices that can collect and transmit health data, it's crucial for insurers to leverage them for improved underwriting and customer experience, says Neil Sprackling, managing director at Swiss Re, in an exclusive interview.

The insurer has consolidated multiple claims platforms on Guidewire to streamline claims management.

Six insurers in total have been recognized by the National Association for Female Executives for policies, practices and the number of women reaching the upper echelons of management.

The application combines case management, intelligent workflow and decision support systems with geospatial functions, to streamline the underwriting process, according to the company.

P&C insurer will implement InsuranceSuite and DataHub; PwC to assist with implementation.

West Coast serves commercial and personal lines and developed a national insurance practice focused on the marine industry.

Andrew Rose, CEO of aggregator Compare.com, says his company's mission is to provide a lifeline to small and midsize insurers who are trying to compete with the massive marketing budgets of the largest carriers.

Policy admin system chosen for ease of integration and speed of implementation, insurer says.

Winners will be selected based on their ability to develop products and services with the potential to bring significant innovation to the industry.

Demand for technology, claims and actuarial positions is skyrocketing -- but those positions are the hardest to fill, according to The Jacobson and Ward Groups.