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Questions Plague State Health Exchange Program

With new collection points, insurers are struggling to achieve accurate contact data; survey reveals median percentage of inaccurate data in an organization’s existing database was 35 percent.

PayPal to Launch Mobile Payments By Summer

Marsh will consolidate efforts of more than 1,350 dedicated claims colleagues located around the world.

The big worry in cybercrime is data or systems loss, but hacking into implanted devices may also be a cause for concern.

As insurers ask themselves whether they want to participate in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges, vendors tailor services and states scramble to meet the 2014 deadline.

Firm partners with Answer Financial, launches O.co Insurance tab to offer home, auto quotes.

1 in 5 Licensed Drivers Wouldn’t Pass Written Test

The transaction is expected to result in an after-tax gain on sale of approximately $275 million for Manulife; and for Pacific Life, approximately 41% share of the market.

Culture is Key to Risk Management Success

SimCorp to provide opportunities for automation for the management of fund-linked life insurances.

Survey: Health Insurance Brokers Vital in Years to Come

The Risk Management Society is approved by American National Standards Institute and will begin standards development in early 2012.

Electronic Subrogation System Completed

Insurers have tough decisions to make in order to strike a balance between security and loss of productivity.

Online Info Helps Patients Find ER Alternatives

Geopolitical upheaval, rapid technological and regulatory change and a spate of natural disasters join persistent financial disquiet to form a potent challenge for insurers.

Increasing tablet and smartphone adoption for work creates headaches over securityS, support.

Has FSOC Already Failed?

Life/health insurers’ performance improves and stability returns; 12 new insurers made the list for 2011.

Focus moving from IT to business capabilities, Forrester survey states.

While measure has cleared lower chamber by a decisive margin, the bill’s fate in the Senate is far from certain.

P&C Insurers Suffer Through Q2 2011

Volatility in the market affected results; nine new insurers made the list for 2011.

Ward Group President Jeff Rieder provides insight and analysis to his company's ranking of the top performing property-casualty and life-health insurers.

User organizations are banding together to establish baseline for cloud data interactions.

As major market changes loom, report says health insurance providers that wish to access this giant pool of potential customers will need to shift toward a consumer-focused model.

Pilot programs reduce cell phone talking, texting among drivers.

Esurance Steps Up Facebook Efforts

Amendment in House seeks to shutter national flood insurance program by next year.

Minimum standards set for insurers to participate in a Web-based exchange and offer qualified health plans

Effects of Non-Modeled Risk Not Understood: Aon Benfield

General agent chooses new policy administration and billing system.

Deferred income product designed to protect retirees against longevity risk.

More Info Expected on Health Insurance Exchanges

Study: Best Heart Surgery Outcomes from Insured Patients

New solution to offers single, integrated architecture for data quality, risk management and compliance.

Latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 55,500 overall IT jobs have been added in the last 12 months, but there was a loss of 22,500 jobs in the financial services and insurance sectors.

Study: There’s Still More to Learn about Distracted Driving

life insurance, third-party administrators, Profit Sharing/401k Council of America

IT managers embracing cloud computing as a viable option for decreasing complexity, a trend likely to push cloud server revenue to $9.5 billion dollars in four years, according to IDC.

Health insurer WellPoint Inc. has settled a lawsuit that Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed last October alleging Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana did not notify 32,051 individuals in the state, or Zoeller, of a large breach of protected information in a timely manner.

The solution provider's WorkersCompExpert chosen for policy, billing and claims processing and management.

Insurers promise cooperation as claims practices investigation widens.

To craft an effective cybercrime defense, companies need a broad management initiative that cuts across strategy, operations, risk management, and legal and technology functions and balances the need for security with business imperatives.

Some say hacking has become a form of entertainment; if so, the insurance industry is likely safer than many.

Life insurers must now identify policyholders who have died using an official government death list and make necessary payments to beneficiaries.

Underwriters Applaud NAIC Stand

insurance claims, property, casualty, fraud, HVAC

10 Named 2011 Women in Insurance Leadership Winners

With increase in policyholders’ surplus and a statutory combined ratio of 102.3, property/casualty insurers still strong.

Vehicle Theft on Decline 7 Years Running