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Health Net Inc. and insurers in at least 14 states will let consumers who missed open enrollment sign up for health plans in April.

Terry Albarella and Maria R. Morris were recognized for their work to advance gender equity.

Tom Parrent, AIG executive and industry veteran, will take on the role of chief risk officer.

Broker found success in Britain through a combination of technology and education; plans to enter the Canadian market this summer and the U.S. market in late 2014 or early 2015.

Head of enterprise data management at American Family Insurance and founder and managing partner of Information Asset consulting firm share tips on setting up centralized data management departments.

More than 1 million people waited until the last five days to sign up, and early indications are that many were young minorities.

Higher losses and premium rates likely to result from ACA open enrollment extensions, Moody's says.

Organizations are racing to establish contemporary cloud storage solutions that they can control.

Industry executives share their perspectives in a recent survey.

The figure doesn’t include enrollments through separate state exchanges or people who started the process and weren’t able to finish because of technical difficulties.

Using newly created tactics, Liberty Mutual has been able to have many of Progressive's patent claims cancelled, an important step in fending off the infringement case Progressive has filed against it and other insurers.

Attention should now turn to the quality of coverage Obamacare enrollees receive, their access to medical services and insurer preparations for 2015.

Atlas will provide cloud-based rating, underwriting, policy administration and other applications to the specialty insurer.

The general IT spending ratio range of 2-4 percent still holds; more benchmarking data in Novarica’s recent report.

Annual awards are based on 3,835 customer scores and rankings for 15 auto, home, health and 14 life insurers.

P&C insurer looks to BillingCenter for oversight of billing operations, including agency and direct bill, across all of its lines of business.

Insurer's technology unit, credited with helping fix the broken federal insurance website, is increasingly being used by state officials to salvage their troubled exchanges.

Leaders from Aflac, Northwestern Mutual and Prudential Group were selected from hundreds of nominations.

To improve customer satisfaction, accuracy and cycle time for weather-related claims, the insurer integrated Verisk’s data and analytics capabilities into its estimating application.

Carriers, including Safeco Insurance, are joining an effort to increase the online presence of individual agents and bolster awareness of the independent agency channel as a whole.

The White House said Thursday that 6 million people have signed up for private health insurance plans through the federal and state marketplaces, hitting the administration’s lowered goal, which was originally 7 million.

Decision could clear hurdles for smaller insurers to enter UBI market, industry experts say.

IT will be required to develop the robust systems and data environment to perform and analyze risk metrics in tight time frames. There's a regulatory train coming, and IT needs to stay ahead of it.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that a box is being added to the enrollment process that consumers can click to indicate they started the sign-up process before the March 31 deadline.

Market conduct exams, privacy and data protection rank at the top of insurers' regulatory concerns, according to a recent survey.

Recognition of IT's strategic importance is growing, but so is dissatisfaction with its effectiveness, according to our eighth annual survey on business and technology strategy.

"If consumers are in line on the 31st and can’t finish, we won’t shut the door on them," says U.S. Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman.

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which ran from June through November, was the first since 1994 with no major storms.

Lumeta Corp. has integrated its IPsonar and ESI products with the Allgress' Insight Risk Management Suite.

The platform now is designed to be a probabilistic loss estimation tool generating exceedence probability curves, probable maximum losses and average annual losses.

Insurer's statement on next year’s rates startled some analysts, while others said the company may be hedging bets as the Obama administration continually changes the rules on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Having established core capabilities last year, chief risk officers now are focused on making core processes and tools work better, according to Ernst & Young survey.

New analysis of off-exchange enrollment data shows percentage of younger people enrolling at eHealth and uninsureds shopping for coverage this quarter are trending up and average premiums trending downward.

Several brokers across the nation pinpointed Blue Cross Blue Shield companies in various states as some of the worst culprits; Blues responds.

By 2020 IoT product and service suppliers will generate incremental revenue exceeding $300 billion.

However, a lack of testing tools and lower-quality assurance resources are holding back mobile website and app developers and IT professionals, according to survey.

Peter Skerlj brings more than 17 years of experience to the role.

USAA, State Farm, GEICO and 11 others received customer experience ratings in the Fourth Annual Temkin Customer Experience survey.

The insurer's usage-based insurance program could next leverage GPS, smartphones and OEM telematics hardware, company says.

The U.S. life-insurance industry, in aggregate, has lost ground for 25 years. Yet a market worth tens of billions of dollars awaits companies able to seize the opportunity.

ClaimCenter has been deployed for claims management ahead of schedule and under budget.

The vast majority of insurers report positive impact on bottom line, but a survey by Towers Watson finds applications and adoption rates vary substantially by line of business and insurer size.

Kaiser Foundation and SelectHealth ranked highest overall, J.D. Power survey finds insufficient coverage decreases health plan satisfaction.

Finance and business executives believe the CFO is a strong evangelist for the transformational potential of technology, according to survey.

Insurer will use the software to to better understand its customers and improve pricing management capabilities for its Safe Driver auto insurance line.

The award honors corporations for supplier diversity programs and the integration of women's business enterprises.

Most national commercial health insurers, including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield and Humana, say they are ready for the October 1 implementation deadline.

Insurer will use Policy Decisions to administer physical damage coverage for manufactured home dealers.

IT is evolving from simply responding to technology requests to helping shape aspects of business strategy, according to research from consulting firm Protiviti.

Despite the Affordable Care Act's requirement that most Americans obtain insurance or pay a fine, one-third of the uninsured plan to remain without insurance.

However, gaps exist between business' and IT's expectations, definitions and applications, according to Strategy Meets Action.

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