Chris McMahon

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.

Tina Workman, VP of accounting and assistant treasurer at Shelter, talks to INN about the challenge of re-engineering business processes with long-time staff as the company moved from a green-screen environment to cloud-based software.

Version 3.0.10 of the core systems suite offers prefills and shortcuts intended to save time, as well as document management functionality.

Anticipated benefits of the new core systems suite include greater automation and streamlined processing, faster time to market, improved data integrity and lower cost of ownership.

While mobile applications are seemingly everywhere, insurers – especially midsize and small ones – have been slow to adopt the technology. But some vendors now offer off-the-shelf products and services to push the technology and resulting savings to smaller insurers.

Matthew Eagle will be responsible for providing thought and resource leadership across the EMEA and AsiaPac regions and developing catastrophe modeling and analytics propositions.