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Transformational effort includes document management and analytics initiatives to improve efficiencies and customer experience.

Don Culpepper, risk management consultant for Fireman’s Fund, discusses insurance applications for the Internet of Things.

IT organizations still years away from essential data management and analytics capabilities.

Insurer will roll out UBI analytics applications and use a national data set to offer discounts to insureds in six states.

The council today also heard a presentation from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on activity in the Treasury futures market the morning of Oct. 15, the Treasury Department said in a statement.

Integrate product is intended to help life insurers with the automation and governance of actuarial modeling and reporting.

Subsidiaries American Life Insurance Co. and Delaware American Life Insurance Co., solicited business in New York without a license and made misrepresentations to the state watchdog, according to the Department of Financial Services.

By outsourcing, the insurer expects to improve customer experience while reducing costs.

Claims transformation effort includes document management and analytics initiatives to improve integrations, efficiencies and customer experience.

Selection made following a two year due diligence and interview process.

LeapFrog’s investors are using the firm both to generate returns and to gain insight into African markets and companies.

Canada’s third-largest auto insurer enters five-year agreement for UBI and insurance telematics technology and services.

Q3 net income climbed 0.6 percent to $706 million, or $1.56 a share, from $702 million, or $1.50, a year earlier.

Q3 earnings per share, excluding one-time items, were $2.36, WellPoint said, beating analyst estimates.

U.S.' second largest life insurer 'well equipped' to take on longevity risk

Auto insurers have managed to eke out modest gains in customer satisfaction, but are still failing to leverage technology in ways that meet the high expectations of Millennial drivers.

Partnership will help companies adopt and manage Google’s lineup of Internet-based software.

The top trends for 2015 cover three themes: the merging of the real and virtual worlds, the advent of intelligence everywhere, and the technology impact of the digital business shift.

The measure is calculated by dividing total qualifying capital resources by required capital at group level, defined by applying 15 factors to different types of activities such as life insurance or banking activities.

Aetna Marketplace for Sam’s Club provides cost control and budget predictability

Legacy systems are constraining insurers across the globe, but transformation—which varies in the different regions—is underway, according to a new report.

Stream Claims can help Regional Insurance to reduce manual and paper-based processing.

The WebXL reporting tools can help the insurer isolate the claim experience and identify weather trends and severity.

More than 25 percent of luxury cars taken from 2010 through 2013 were never returned to their Floridian owners, the National Insurance Crime Bureau said.

Three women insurance execs cite personal experiences and lessons learned.

Insurer expands use of social business platform to multiple European countries.

Overall, insurance agencies are optimistic about their future, except for the smallest agencies, which are at greater risk.

Global costs from natural catastrophes were $125 billion in 2013, including $31 billion in insured losses, a number that is expected to increase.

More the 300 industry professionals attend the 9th annual meeting of industry conference.

Over 40 percent of otherwise satisfied auto and home policyholders likely to switch insurers soon, Accenture finds.

Insurers, healthcare providers and consumers stand to benefit from widespread adoption of wearable devices.

Effisoft’s WebXL reporting tools provide stronger controls and dramatic productivity gains.

Celent report compares policy administration systems supplied by everyone from Accenture to Xuber

Most of those organizations surveyed use big data analytics to monitor equipment and assets to identify operating issues and enable proactive maintenance, according to a new study from GE and Accenture.

Eight Annual Vanguards in Insurance Practices Awards shines spotlight on the industry’s most innovative carriers and vendors.

Combining Perspecsys Cloud Data Protection and ClaimVantage Claims Processing provides insurers with a secure infrastructure for claims automation.

New SurePower Innovation functionality offers insurer clients improved data mining and reporting capabilities.

Liazon, Cigna collaboration offers a national solution for companies with 250 or more employees via Bright Choices and other Liazon-powered exchanges

2014 Vanguards in Insurance Practices Awards winners determined by surveying insurance company executives.

Mutual of Enumclaw is using ProcessOne to improve customer payment processes and streamline reconciliation.

Federal health insurance exchange's performance should reflect major improvements over last year

Private health insurance exchange enables employers to offer personalized health benefits at big savings

So-called Risk-O-lator app allows teens to test their knowledge about risky driving behavior.

Health care premiums expected to rise an average 4.2% next year on the nation’s largest state-run public exchange.

NICB report shows that newer model vehicles are stolen less and are more likely to be recovered.

When CareerBuilder asked about the most unusual lie they've ever caught on a resume, employers recalled these doozies.

By 2016, the availability of capacity and performance management skills for horizontally scaled architectures will be a major constraint or risk to growth for 80 percent of major businesses, Gartner says.

Starr alleges in its shareholder suit that the U.S. didn’t have the authority to demand 80 percent of AIG’s equity in consideration for a loan and didn’t pay a fair price for the stock it took.

Demand for coverage has accelerated after some of the largest companies in the U.S. revealed that they’d fallen victim to cyber hackers.

A new report, released in September by Celent, examines the constantly changing insurance market and recommends key strategies and investments Asian life insurance companies should focus on to be successful.

Starr International claims the government illegally took equity in the insurer, and that the 14 percent on an $85 billion rescue loan was an “extortion rate.” Starr is seeking at least $25 billion in damages.

Geithner is scheduled for a third day of testimony and will be followed by another architect of the bailout, Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.