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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.

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Moody’s Ups Commercial Lines’ Outlook to Stable

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

LIMRA pronounces a $17.5-trillion gap in the life insurance U.S. households currently own versus what they claim to need.

ICA expects new business and policy administration systems to "revolutionize" the way it does business.

Many companies will focus on variable pay as a way to bump salaries in 2012.

Insurers face delays in Fed's determination of how to regulate "nonbank financial institutions" deemed systemically important.

TMM hopes for significant cost savings and a one-year ROI as a result of RapidSure implementation.

Findings on trends and adoption of collaboration, community and productivity from Saugatuck Technology in partnership with Information Management.

Based on data from 88 insurance company state filings, report reveals that the industry is still largely unprepared to deal with the wide-ranging economic risks posed by climate change.

Insurers are facing a crossroads at the intersection of “social” and “media,” with its next iteration anything but business as usual, says expert in new media.

New report from Swiss Re says insurers need to employ new, forward-looking types of modeling to better understand implications of increasing life expectancy.

Allstate report notes Fort Collins, Colo. as having the safest drivers in the country for second year in a row.

J.D. Powers latest report reveals policyholders with flood insurance less satisfied than those who opt not to carry it; Amica takes top spot in overall customer satisfaction.

How long after implementing an electronic document management system can an insurer get rid of original paper documents? The answer: It depends.

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Enterprise IP telephony software shows early signs of improving customer service and employee productivity.

Software and services vendor increases availability for overseeing cloud implementations by opening a new delivery center in North America.

Fitch Ratings and A.M. Best don’t expect significant ratings changes as a result of the losses.

The first series of services in its Breezeway collection, designed to provide virtual agents with a desktop application that supports e-mail, collaboration, electronic new business application management and e-signature.

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act will present insurers with technology and operational challenges, according to PwC.

Allstate, State Farm issue information, advice to policyholders affected by Hurricane Irene.

While coastal wind damage is less than expected, inland flooding wreaks havoc in Northeast.

AT&T to assist the insurer in creating an application to provide policyholders with on-the-go services.

Study reveals that use of analytics is becoming increasingly pervasive across the insurance enterprise, but analytical talent still lacking.

Throughout Asian-Pacific region, SAS provides business analytics for ICBC, China Guangfa Bank, Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance, KDDI.

Interation is intended to enable movement of documents, data from vendor's Passport to Insurance Exchange in a single step.

Thunderhead’s NOW platform to streamline customer communications systems.

Hurricane Irene advances toward New York and an estimated $2.4 trillion worth of insured properties in the state’s coastal areas.

Insurers Ready for Irene

The Cadillac Escalade tops Highway Loss Data Institute's list again; pickup trucks dominate the rest of the top 10, but not as much as in the past.

As it leaves the Bahamas behind, the storm is forecast to make direct landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina late Saturday.

Hoping to “maximize shareholder value,” Davis Advisors filed concerns with the SEC on Wednesday.

New Aite Group report examines how predictive analysis can help insurers remake the claims process.

Western National Life hits $2 billion mark, tops Allianz and New York Life in second-quarter fixed annuity sales, according to Beacon Research.

LIMRA reports whole and variable life insurance sales increase in first half of 2011; term life declines.

Brokers indicate consistent rates and a general consensus that the market has improved to a point of equilibrium.