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FM Global says the industry well capitalized to withstand potential strong storms.

INN announces the results of its fifth annual program recognizing the distinct and outstanding accomplishments and contributions of women in the insurance industry.

In letter to Senators, insurers ask for renewal of lapsed program.

SAS Analytics Pro is designed to enable insurers to access, manipulate, analyze and present information on their own.

For every agency or industry participant that appeared to gain in the bill, there also was a significant downside.

Traditional carriers beginning to catch up to direct-to-consumer players in their ability to enhance the user experience, notes a new report.

Relationship between AIG CEO and the board’s chairmen sours after the sale of the company’s AIA Group Ltd. falls through.

UltiPro's unified HCM design offers the ability for insurers to achieve holistic BI on the entire workforce.

Wide-ranging legislation creates a Federal Insurance Office with limited preemptive powers.

The resolution of issues means the bill is now complete and will return to the full House and Senate for votes next week, where it is expected to pass.

BindExpress Portal is designed to enable Barton and its agents to quote and bind new business policies.

Purchase rates continue to climb as rates fall, according to a new report.

Report from Moody's Investors Service says small carriers may need to diversify or raise capital to meet pending requirements.

StoneRiver survey posits reinsurers concerned about not having automation for aggregation in the event of a catastrophe.

New Celent report says there is no single best claim solution for all European insurers.

A new report from Novarica finds insurance CIOs warming to the use of agile development.

Escaping the last of the oughts has been good to P&C insurers, as the combined ratio improved to 101.1% in Q1 2010 from 102.2% in Q1 2009.

Short-term extension would keep the troubled National Flood Insurance Program operational until September.

Insurance technology execs are replacing their focus on being cost-cutting service providers with a ramp-up of innovation—and looking at their people and their organizations.

S&P rates Genworth's senior notes, Moody's downgrades The Phoenix Cos. senior debt rating and A.M. Best revises State Auto’s outlook to negative.

Conferees yesterday couldn't agree to final language that would make it harder for federal regulators to preempt state consumer protection laws.

A constellation of insurance regulators and executives were on hand at the White House for an event marking the 90-day anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. property/casualty insurer financial impairments rises to 18 in 2009, up from 16 in 2008 and five in 2007.

CIGNA was honored as having the best customer service team of the year across all U.S. businesses.

Seeking to trim cost of package, senators seek to add six-month benefit extension.

Rating agency says the industry’s 2010 operating income increased $9 billion over Q1 2009; its net income increased $11 billion.

New PWC survey finds FASB's push to have all financial instruments marked-to-market would be at odds with most investors' preferences.

As part of TIAA-CREF's “new client-focused organizational structure,” Maliz Beams will be replaced by Edward Van Dolsen.

Pundits and analysts are having a field day with social media for insurance, but is it really that big of a deal?

The industry released almost $20 billion in reserves in 2009, according to a Conning study.

New Fitch report says P&C sector financial performance impressive considering the challenges of past 10 years.

EWI Risk Services says the long-term potential impact of the disaster on the D&O market is in the range of $250 to $500 million.

Results of vendor-sponsored survey show decreased collaboration and e-discovery investment since 2009.

The committee still has to tackle issues surrounding derivatives oversight, consumer protection, interchange fee regulation and risk retention.

Mitchell’s WorkCenter is designed to provide assignment, repairable estimating, total loss valuation, review/audit, repair management and reporting.

Celent report says Asian insurers will spend 1% to 3% of premium on IT in 2010.

New preparedness standards for private sector draw praise from risk managers.

B&L's insurance companies will use SIMS Claims to replace multiple legacy systems and optimize IT and claims operations.

The committee agreed to scale back a provision that would eliminate the use of trust-preferred securities as Tier 1 capital.

To reduce costs, carriers employed a variety of methods from increasing the employee portion of the premium to increasing deductible levels.

Lapses in insurance-related programs persist as legislators wrangle.

Gartner lists best practices for re-evaluating software-as-a-service in your organization.

The economic recovery horses are at the starting gate, but when will the race begin, and when do we plunk down our bets?

Quickfill, intended for use with personal lines auto and property and commercial property insurance, is designed to populate results from 34 of ISO’s databases.

Life insurers back annuities legislation in testimony before Committee.

The investigation by U.S. market regulators into American International Group’s executives is closed, Reuters reports.

Insurers being swept up in the current iPhone furor may want to watch as mobile banking customers continue to clamor for Android apps that still aren't available.

Moody’s and S&P react to Marsh McLennan’s Mercer subsidiary settlement, and to Lincoln National’s capital plan related to its TARP repayment.

Federal judge U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall gave preliminary approval to a settlement under which The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. will pay $72.5 million to a group of claimants alleging the insurer engaged in fraudulent practices in settling various injury claims.

IIABA weighs in on creation of federal insurance regulator as conference committee finalizes details of financial services reform.

As European insurers brace for changes to the way they calculate risk and capital, a new report assesses vendor offerings.

AMA members say insurers are making progress, but processing costs are on the rise due to errors, underpaid, overpaid or incorrectly unpaid claims.