Digital Platforms

In declaring a $10.2 trillion protection gap, Conning suggests the Internet and social media as outreach tools that have the ability to help insurers regain middle market traction.

Carriers are quoting average rate hikes of 5 percent to 10 percent for D&O and E&O insurance after more than two years of price cuts, according to analysis by SKCG Group.

Robert Solitro, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions U.S. Companies, and Mario Vitale, Aspen Insurance, have been elected to the American Insurance Association board.

Protocols, including smartphone implementation into auto production, set the stage for telematics use within the next five years, according to a new report.

Fewer fraudulent claims and lower premiums a few effects of the passed personal injury protection reform.

Product addresses a variety of best practices and risks associated with employee use of personal devices for work, including legal issues that arise from access of employee data by an employer.

Louisiana regains the title of most expensive state to insure an automobile.

Increased workers’ compensation and commercial property prices contribute most to 3-percent increase for all standard commercial lines in fourth quarter, notes Towers Watson.

Following successful creation of the first website to provide an inventory of public, private health insurance plans to consumers, Park will broaden his efforts to to oversee federal IT-related research and development spending.

The problem stems from companies that value speed to market over security when they create mobile versions of their e-commerce sites.

Many employers are interested in exploring corporate exchanges, which could increase competition among health insurers.

Consumers who purchase insurance where they bank are among most profitable, loyal and desirable customers, according to new study.

Shifting focus to solely group long-term care, carrier cites economic influences as basis for decision.

While cloud uncertainties persist, tactful implementation and maintenance can offset the risks involved, according to SIM.

Is the industry ready for informed straight-through processing?

Accenture's Claim Components software to help streamline processes, better serve customers.

Five-year deal for outsourced networking via BT Connect worth $47 million.

The rising prices for base metals could wreak havoc not just on insurers, but on the nation’s critical infrastructure, reports the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

The industry has more than 1,000 career opportunities and a direct economic impact of $6.7 billion per year in South Carolina alone, according to report.

First-notice-of-loss mobile application included in Ravello Solutions' claims management system implementation.

Insurers such as Travelers and AIG say they may have to rethink how they handle the underwriting of reoccurring natural disasters.

Regulatory claims tops the list of liability issues, as more than two-thirds of companies in new study report inquiring on amount and scope of D&O coverage.

New report sees technology disruption as the best means of offsetting economic and environmental uncertainties.

As the insured losses from storms continue to rise, insurers may need to spread their risk, have reissuance in place and readjust reinsurance for 2012.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will issue rules that would impose new limits on force-placed insurance products.

NexJ’s Integrated Agent Desktop unified the point-of-entry for 14 of the carrier’s external systems.

Banking and financial services will spend more on the cloud to meet customer needs, resulting in approximately 1.4 million cloud jobs by 2015, according to IDC.

The program administrators and managing general agents market is expected to grow in 2012, according to Guy Carpenter & Company survey of specialty program insurance providers.

The insurance industry is likely facing substantial costs again after the past week's storms.

Most recent IPO will leave AIG with an approximate 19-percent stake in AIA.

Total market for insurance MDM expected to double within the next two years.

Berkshire Hathaway, Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, 40 insurers

Stakeholders from the insurance industry met with members of the U.S. Senate to acknowledge the role global warming plays in extreme weather-related losses and call for action.

With insurers facing pressures from business objective imperatives, IT still need to find a safe way to manage their mobile devices, notes new research results.

The U.S. government has asked a court to dismiss a $25 billion lawsuit relating to its 2008 takeover of American International Group that was filed by Starr International Co.

Insurers using a new service will be able to search and analyze up to two years' worth of Twitter updates.

Insurers will need to rethink product offerings as policymakers are now looking beyond the once-vaunted 401(k).

Direct-to-consumer auto insurer signs on for sweeping core replacements from Guidewire.

With premiums and investment income flat, insurers turn to operational improvements to buoy the balance sheet.

Celebrating its 117th birthday, the insurer and its award-winning CEO formally support Women in History Month.

Opportunities await insurers willing to ramp up innovative products, distribution channels to compete in under-developed markets.

States awarded the funds include Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

Duck Creek policy admin and billing software to be implemented using Accenture's product configuration software application.

Insurers using new enterprise social marketing platform to standardize the compliance efforts of its employees, representatives using social networking sites.

Product Accelerator configuration software to build content repository for Jackson’s product-related information.

State legislators are looking to smartphone-enabled electronic insurance IDs to save drivers, law officials’ time and money.

For the first time, referrals to National Insurance Crime Bureau break 100,000.

Nearly 58 percent of adults using social media setting stronger privacy controls, according to Pew Research.

New study finds that majority of middle-income Americans admit to knowing little about the Medicare program.

MajescoMastek tapped to provide the billing component for the insurer's core systems legacy replacement and modernization initiative.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, has birthed a new company, Horizon Healthcare Innovations (HHI), which is dedicated to fomenting a paradigm shift that results in a health care system that delivers better care at dramatically lower costs.

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