Digital Platforms

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.

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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.

The hurricane weakened to Category 1 upon landfall on the North Carolina Outer Banks.

The next phase of personal cloud will impact mobile, wearables, networking and cloud providers.

High performance claims handling could turn overlooked data into actionable information with considerable economic impact, Aite Group says.

The agreement covers Liberty Mutual Insurance’s potentially volatile U.S. asbestos and environmental liabilities, as well as commercial insurance’s workers’ compensation liabilities.

The bill, passed 93-4 today in Washington, now goes to the House, where Republican leaders propose cutting back the reimbursement for attacks involving conventional weapons.

ABI Research predicts that cloud platforms will generate $3.6 billion in mobile enterprise application revenue by 2019.

Revenue rose 7 percent, led by the company’s Optum unit, which has been credited with helping to fix Healthcare.gov.

Major shifts in the health care market will lead to disruptive and ever-changing changes, including private exchanges, and those that realize the change and adapt to it will be the ones that are successful.

Development and operations teams are under more pressure than ever to deliver software faster, more efficiently and at higher levels of quality, according to Enterprise Management Associates.

New functionality includes non-catastrophe risk analysis and an underwriting mode.

Bringing together clinical and claims data is a key to population management as the combination of data helps identify two-to-three times more patients for intervention services.

The two companies will work together to develop applications tailored to work with IBM’s data analytics and cloud services.

USAA, GEICO and RLI make the list for the 24th consecutive year.

P&C insurer intends to manage and control reinsurance business and related processes on a single platform.

The insurer will use ARC Logics’ regulatory change management, risk assessment and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance functions.

18 states were given permission to opt out of SHOP’s employee-choice provision after determining it would produce adverse selection.

Financial institutions lead others in terms of purchases, according to Marsh.

Kaiser Family Foundation confirms industry suspicions that public exchanges would cover a sicker population than traditional avenues.

Life and annuity insurer rolls out new components to streamline application entry, case management and underwriting, and product calculation.

Insurer seeks to accelerate sales, service and policy delivery with electronic signatures.