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Lloyd’s suffered $1.12 billion in losses on its way to a combined ratio of 113.3 percent.

Company commits to expanding insurance coverage in Haiti, Senegal.

Pike Research: By 2020, adoption and standardization of virtual data environments will push significant greenhouse and energy reductions.

CFOs responding to a recent Towers Watson survey say their companies are increasing both property and casualty rate levels ahead of market increases.

A natural-language supercomputer holds unlimited potential in unraveling uncertainties surrounding claims and conditions.

Estimate from Risk Management Solutions excludes power outages and tree-fall damage.

CSC Introduces FuturEdge Services Suite

Damage Figures from Joplin Tornado Top $1B

Department of Labor agrees to re-purpose rule seeking to clarify definition of fiduciary advice.

Carriers looking to augment underwriting and policy administration systems, according to IVANS study.

CSC Unveils Cloud-based Billing Application

The P&C insurer will implement the new billing and receivables management system in its six regional companies in an effort to reduce communication and business barriers.

The question of how to regulate insurance companies at the holding company level is vexing both here and abroad.

Update: Celent Evaluates Policy Administration Vendors

Real-time, location-based intelligence is transforming the way auto insurers operate.

United States Dominates SaaS

Proactive response is the key; government action is not the answer.

Using the same platform as desktop users, Front Office Suite adds mobile connectivity in an attempt to increase functionality.

Analyst firm puts software at $23 billion in by 2015.

Amarillo Top City for Hail

In congressional testimony, NAIFA says proposed common fiduciary standard would harm smaller investors.

Ryan Larson appointed director of sales and client services in northwest region.

Risk management software refined to address complex accumulation risks.

Systema Software extends product reach in attempt to meet the needs of the Cayman Islands-based auto insurer.

Towers Watson survey shows a 1.5-percent rise in commercial lines pricing for Q2.

Vermont Mutual Set to Fast-Track Development of New Business Apps

The follow-up to last year's award-winning inaugural issue, PIA's 2011 Agency Marketing Guide focuses on successful Internet marketing.

Aflac research shows that 76 percent of workers acknowledge mistakes surrounding benefit decisions.

AIR Worldwide Seeks to Improve Geocoding With Trillium Deal

A.M. Best says worsening of the economic landscape in Europe merits consideration.

Serious legacy modernization and transformation will continue to be part of virtually every insurer's IT roadmap for at least the next decade, analyst firm says.

Enterprises of all sizes are deploying virtualization in data center environments; Aberdeen calls it a tipping point for business.

Health insurer to leverage commercial version of analytic technologies that helped computer win big on TV game show.

GIS and social media converge to provide a 360-degree view of what's happening on the ground after disasters.

NICB, state departments and law enforcement play roles in educating, investigating and nabbing suspects.

Key points to Life Insurance Awareness Month's efforts to enlighten employees about their coverage, or lack thereof.

Swiss Re figures already pin down 2011 as the second-costliest year for insured catastrophe damages; Aon Group estimates United States alone has suffered $7 billion more in losses since June.

Chief risk officers from some of the largest life and P&C insurers, including AIG, Allstate, Chubb and MassMutual, lay the foundation for the newly formed North American CRO Council.

Industry remains well capitalized, but mounting disaster losses hammer combined ratio.

Sun Life Financial Pulse Poll concludes that fear and wishful thinking paralyze many people age 50 and older from planning for long-term care.

Decade-old BPO relationship to continue through 2014.

Two legislative issues of utmost importance for the insurance industry now head to the Senate floor.

MeLLmo's Roambi Analytics to provide Primerica’s independent sales force with business reports and communication tools.

Life insurer aims to remodel data center infrastructure using the tools of the publicly traded Australian vendor.

With flood losses mounting and program due to expire at month’s end, upper chamber set to debate bill.

Baltimore drivers are 88.7 percent more likely than the national average to suffer an accident.

NOAA and Atmospheric and Environmental Research team up on technology, severe storm risk management initiative.

Nationwide releases survey revealing that the majority of policyholders’ beneficiaries are aware of being designated on the policy and will know how to file a claim.

GNAIE wants separate models for short-duration non-life and long-duration life contracts.

Top 50 Global Reinsurers

Moody’s Ups Commercial Lines’ Outlook to Stable

Rating firm says insurers should not “model shop” to downplay exposures.