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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

New Aite Group report examines how vendor offerings afford insurers opportunity to transform the process.

Personalized, malicious e-mail attacks have grown from $50 to $200 million in value to the perpetrators in the past year. The reputation hit to victims—possibly insurers’ customers—is far greater.

Lloyds latest thrift restructuring is designed to save $2.4B by 2014.

Ernst & Young’s award in the technology category is bestowed for leadership, vision and years of achievement.

The National Alliance awards CIC, CRM, CISR scholarships to National Association of Insurance Women members actively involved in the insurance industry.

Online sales collaboration platform to offer informational updates about Chartis.

Vertafore suite of products to be implemented for streamlined processes, scalability across infrastructures.

Outline Systems’ product to address carrier needs, enhance agency-carrier relationships.

NAIC Commends States on Surplus Lines Initiative

PCI Lists Worst Cities, States for Towing

Reinsurance Industry and Social Media: An Oxymoron?

Willis Re says some reinsurers are starting to reposition themselves after run of natural catastrophes.

Carrier launches disaster microsite to help its commercial lines customers prepare for hurricane season.

Business Intelligence Tools – Going Global

Tropical Storm Arlene brings heavy rains, threat of mudslides, to Mexico.

British drivers participating in a survey would rather purchase a policy online versus over the phone or through a broker.

Brits Confident in Insurance Purchases Online

Worldwide, public cloud services are growing four times the rate of overall IT spending, notes Gartner.

With home prices still depressed and the FHA's grip on the market for low-down payment loans still firm, mortgage insurers are stuck in the same rut they were a year and a half ago.

Microsoft Moves Office to the Cloud

J.D. Power research also finds unbundled customers happier with insurance offerings.

Chubb Introduces Service to Aid in Data Breach Recovery

With a focus on growth rather than simple cost-cutting, insurance CIOs are trying to deeply change the mix of capabilities, knowledge and assets within their organizations.

Model intended to help insurers quantify the risk of wind and related flood loss in China and Hong Kong

If we collectively suffer from a bad rap, it's because our industry lacks a community of leaders that can act as an organized front—a cohesive voice that can rebrand insurance as a prominent and respected force in financial services.

Study estimates insurers will manage 50 times more data and 75 times more files in next decade.

Economic conditions lead middle-income baby boomers to reevaluate plans, with more women than men saying income now inadequate to pursue retirement.

Actuaries propose metrics as regulators here and abroad work to determine which companies pose a systemic risk.