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The insurer plans test flights near Bloomington, Illinois; could use drones to assess roof damage claims and respond to natural disasters.

The announcement today counts 14.1 million people who have enrolled in private plans or expanded Medicaid coverage since 2013, and 2.3 million young adults who were allowed to stay on parent's health plans until the age of 26.

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.

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

More than a third of visitors to Healthcare.Gov came through a tablet or smartphone, said CEO Kevin Counihan -- and they are converting to sales.

Regulators, industry representatives and others are encouraged offer perspectives, insights and recommendations to inform and shape emerging regulations.

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.

Building a strong relationship with the insurance industry has been a top priority for Sylvia Burwell since becoming the head of HHS nine months ago, she said at America's Health Insurance Plans' national health policy conference this week.

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

Companies have resisted providing data to the government about hacking attacks out of concern that they could be sued if they accidentally included private information about their customers, or accused of violating antitrust laws.

Google can't use aggregation-based connections with insurance companies to decipher their rating and risk management strategies -- but it might not need to.

Quicksolver will be used to support 27 types of coverage for entertainment production companies in 50 states; intended to cut quote-to-bind times and simplify rating and filing processes.

Commercial drones are photographing sporting events, monitoring construction sites and performing other aerial chores even though the Federal Aviation Administration is as many as two years away from issuing final regulations to govern their use.

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.

Carriers are polarized by the new Google Compare for auto insurance aggregator – but the search giant is hoping key partnerships will help it gain credibility.

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.

Today's launch of the Google Compare auto insurance comparison site represents a watershed moment in the U.S. insurance industry.

The life insurer will implement PolicyHS to streamline change requests for inforce policies.

The Supreme Court case King v. Burwell, which challenges the legality of subsidies available for individuals purchasing health insurance on the federal exchange under the Affordable Care Act, could rock the stability of the health insurance market. Arguments will be heard today.

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

Two-thirds of insurance companies intend to increase staff in 2015, according to the “Semi-Annual U.S. Insurance Labor Outlook Study,” conducted by recruiting firm The Jacobson Group and industry benchmarking firm Ward Group. That is an increase of eight points since the July 2014 survey and the highest rate since 2009, when the survey began.

A process is also in the works to provide funds to homeowners who disputed insurance payments without suing.

Genworth is struggling to contain the damage and on Monday warned of a “material weakness” in some of its accounting.

With fewer recent CAT events, insurers have been applying lessons learned to managing non-catastrophic claims, according to a survey from J.D. Power, resulting in the third-consecutive year of higher customer claims satisfaction.

A growing number of New York and New Jersey homeowners have accused insurers of rejecting or underpaying flood-insurance claims based on falsified engineering reports.

Financial leaders offer comments and remembrances; Benmosche’s career brought him to Chase Manhattan Bank, PaineWebber, MetLife and AIG.

The company also put out a HITECH Act notice over the weekend detailing the identity protection services it will provide affected customers.

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

Benmosche came out of retirement in August 2009 to take over a company reeling from losses on failed housing-market bets, and led the insurer for half a decade.

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

Kevin Counihan failed to directly answer other questions regarding re enrollments, tax data and if illegal immigrants were provided coverage.

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.

AXA Capital Ventures is investing in companies that focus on customer acquisition, climate change, travel insurance and more.

Federal Bureau of Investigation officials are still deciding whether to publicly reveal information about the attackers in one of the biggest thefts of medical-related customer data in U.S. history.

Seven Iowa insurers, including The Principal, Delta Dental, and Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance, are investors in the project, which provides capital and mentoring to six technology startups focusing on providing insurance-specific services.

Victims could includes millions of people who aren’t Anthem members, but used their Blue Cross or Blue Shield insurance in states, including Texas and Florida, where Anthem operates partnerships.

Financial strength, taking advantage of opportunistic ventures and market demand for products and channels ranked as the drivers of capital utilization decisions, according to Towers Watson.

The Allstate subsidiary, which offers a range of insurance products online, is beginning its Canadian push with auto insurance.

Superfish uses image-recognition algorithms that watch where users point on their screens and suggest ads based on the images they’re looking at.

Along with Logiq3, MSG Global's acquisition of Tindal Associates brings it more than 100 life insurance customers.

Private insurers working in partnership with FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program have come under scrutiny over allegations they denied or rejected damage claims based on falsified reports.

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.

Supported by the Accenture Cloud Platform and using Microsoft Azure, the suite is intended to enhance underwriting effectiveness, reduce loss costs, improve customer retention and drive profitable growth.

Obama signed an executive order intended to encourage companies to share information on Internet threats with one another and create a framework to help the private sector turn over data to federal agencies investigating data breaches.

The swap is part of an effort to upgrade technology that also includes new e-mail software and stronger security.

The global reinsurer is moving from a homegrown system with BlackBerry phones to a MobileIron offering with Windows phones and a bring-your-own-device option.

New Software for Agent Portal Offering is expected to help the carrier modernize its technology.

The affected consumers are those who have not been able to prove their U.S. citizenship, the government says.

However, research from the New York Department of Financial Services found that actual data loss is not a common outcome of compromised systems.

The CEO has to convince investors that the company has figured out the size of the hole at the long-term care coverage business, and that the gap won’t keep growing.