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The Hot Wheels: America’s 10 Most Stolen Vehicles report reveals a 50-50 split between domestic and imported cars.

As more consumer and household goods are equipped with connected sensors, opportunities for risk mitigation and pricing are on the rise.

Today's technologically advanced homes are altering how insurers use real-time telemetric data for the assessment of risk and prevention of loss.

Gartner warns enterprise application development teams against using traditional practices.

MEM also worked with Risk Control Technologies to integrate Guidewire PolicyCenter and ClaimCenter data into the loss prevention system.

Bankers will implement the application across all lines of business it writes, including its TPA business.

The latest version of the firm’s risk and capital management decision-making application is designed to enable insurers to better understand the drivers of risk, assess options and deploy capital efficiently.

The exchange is available to Cigna U.S. clients and prospective clients starting September 1.

Marketplace Connector Cloud will integrate and transition HRIC’s comprehensive plan offerings for individuals and SHOP plans.

Project is intended to consolidate data and analytics tools, improve data quality and the efficiency of analysts.

The market for data loss prevention products will reach $1.7 billion by the end of 2014.

The name change will be completed by the end of the year, pending shareholder approval.

AIG, Amica, Legal & General and 8 other insurers among the finalists for the awards honoring best practices in insurance industry IT initiatives and strategy.

Erie, Nationwide and State Farm lead in satisfaction, according to J.D. Power; all insurers benefit by offering highly satisfying customer experiences, which result in increased customer loyalty and advocacy.

The lawsuit escalates a dispute with Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber.

CRM data analytics can enable a business to make the sales process smarter as well as empower field reps with easy access to business intelligence.

The multiyear agreement is expected to result in improved revenue, data security and market sustainability for ACE clients.

Mphasis will offer offshore and BPO services for managing complex data entry.

The offering will include full billing, claims, endorsement and renewal functionality for the carrier’s personal lines.

A recent survey identifies insurers' highest-priority investment areas over the next two years.

Companies seek competitive advantage in industry; investments in talent and technology also rate high on wish list, according to KPMG survey.

Annual payments for uninsured claims total $2.6 billion, up 75 percent in 10 years.

Online consumers who access social networking sites from a smartphone are more likely to read, comment, like or share content posted by a company than their PC counterparts.

Insurers place stock in upgrading systems, but are ambivalent about securing top talent, according to report from Xchanging.

ClaimCenter enables claims organizations to define, enforce and refine their preferred claim-handling practices, Guidewire says.

Cheap connected sensors soon could disrupt insurance product creation, distribution, services, pricing, data and analytics and business metrics, according to SMA.

CEO Steven Kandarian, who last month announced the insurer’s first stock buyback since 2008, says it’s hard to commit to additional repurchases as he awaits clarity on U.S. capital oversight.

The Government Accountability Office places blame for the site’s rising price on poor planning and supervision of contractors who built the federal health exchange in testimony for a congressional hearing Thursday in the Republican-led House.

The most widely regarded as well as the most vilified state-run operations are experiencing technical glitches and data-management challenges.

Insurer looks to ComplianceCourier to help centralize and automate the access control process.

Insurer expects to increase operational efficiency through automation and improved data analytics and real-time reporting.

The global application performance monitoring and application-aware network performance monitoring market earned revenue of $2.55 billion in 2013 and estimates this will reach $7.19 billion in 2020, says Frost & Sullivan.

Insurer accounts for 769,000 of the 8 million people who signed up for coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The not-for-profit health care services organization intends to automate and streamline investment accounting and reporting.

Gartner points out lack of consistent definition for and how to get value from a data lake.

Net income for the quarter rose 2 percent to $548.8 million, or $1.52 a share, from $536 million, or $1.49 a year earlier.

Sometime between 2008 and 2009, the number of devices online surpassed the number of people, giving rise to the Internet of Things (IoT), an ever-expanding ecosystem of smart devices that use wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) technology to communicate with each other and with business systems.

Stonebridge Life, a Transamerica company, turns to the iGO app for Medicare supplement to help speed the annual sales process.

A data analysis reveals that expenses for deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs are changing inconsistently among the four categories of Accountable Care Act plans.

Mobile Device Management arose as a way to manage and secure devices and the information on them, including the ability to lock, track activity or erase sensitive data.  Learn more in 60 Seconds!

Forrester Research finds apps are helping insurers increase revenues, decrease loss expenses and reduce risk.

The Financial Conduct Authority is demanding higher standards of consumer protection from insurers, which could lead to greater customer engagement and understanding.

Cloud deployment can improve risk management for The Barnstable policyholders, company says.

Many industry reports say carriers are investing in underwriting technology, but will all of these investments benefit underwriters?

Tropics Breeze can help improve AlaCOMP’s workers' compensation program.

InsureRight Platform can help improve underwriting performance in workers' compensation.

Time will tell if the Halbig decision remains viable. But in the meantime, a new level of uncertainty has been injected into the process.

The tool could give customized, 24-hour access that wasn’t possible with USAA’s website or its employees.

PolicyWriter, by Adaptik Corp., is like no other P&C policy administration solution on the market – and we’re happy to prove it. Today’s Adaptik Blog entry highlights the software’s innovative data and rule alignment .

U.S. appeals court rules the government can’t give financial assistance to anyone buying coverage on the insurance marketplace run by federal authorities.

Financial returns continued to improve; Ward's 50 companies, which include Aetna, Great American Life, Liberty National Life and others, produced a 21.8-percent statutory return on average equity from 2009 to 2013.

ForeSight illustration app is intended to boost agent efficiency and mobility for National Life Group’s life products.