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The insurer will use software from FINEOS to manage claims in its employee benefits line.

Insurance Networking News (INN) and Celent, a division of Oliver Wyman Inc., announce that voting is currently underway for the 2010 Vanguards in Insurance Practices (VIP) awards.

Health insurers finally get peek at bill that contains yet another take on the public option, and are quick to react to its contents.

Forrester talked to 70 North American insurers about their hardware and infrastructure investment plans and found that they're very concerned about risks associated with cloud computing and virtualization.

Report says companies are investing in technologies to thwart enterprise risk.

Pulled off the sales block with a sale imminent, the unit now looks to rebuild and rebrand.

Survey attempts to resolve lagging registration by state insurance regulators.

Despite this year’s challenges, insurance companies will see opportunities in 2010, predicts LIMRA’s CEO.

NAU Country Insurance Co., PEMCO Mutual Insurance Co. and TRISTAR Risk Management are the latest insurers to select the enterprise content management (ECM) software suite.

Workers’ comp insurer to use Valen Technologies’ AuditRight predictive analytics solution to ensure premium to exposure accuracy.

FINRA's chair Tuesday called for the creation of a single repository of data on all trades on all markets so that the financial industry could be "surveilled by a unified single regulator."

Deep Customer Connections’ industry benchmark of carriers’ performance ranks their “ease of doing business.”

The revised bill, introduced late Tuesday, would give the Federal Reserve Board power to oversee systemically important companies, and beef up a proposed interagency council to advise the central bank.

Senator says he won’t provide 60th vote needed to bring legislation to floor.

S&P changes HUB’s outlook to negative, while A.M. Best affirms American Physicians Insurance Co.’s financial strength and issuer credit ratings.

Data quality and master data management, according to Forrester research, will become critical enablers to support real-time operational and decision-making processes.

Analyst and consulting firm SMA publishes reports that paint a rosy picture of insurers’ IT spend in the coming year.

Carriers have increasingly heard that ease-of-doing-business and technology are the deciding factors for agents when selecting insurers with which to work, but new research shows that unless carriers have a solid product at a competitive price, all the talk is meaningless.

Insurers watch as the bill to create a consumer protection agency, as approved last week, gave almost all authority directly to the agency's director.

OakBridge Insurance Services announces new offices in California and Minnesota, as well as two new hires.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office tells federal agencies what property/casualty insurers and reinsurers have been warning for months: Prepare for climate change effects.

The Hartford and the Connecticut Attorney General reach a settlement stemming from ongoing litigation against Guy Carpenter for orchestrating a series of alleged conspiracies with dozens of reinsurers that illegally inflated costs for insurers and consumers.

White House says it stands by health care reform legislation drafted by Senate Majority Leader Reid.

In a busy 2009, AIR Worldwide has modeled the risk profile for eight securities in North America and Europe, providing cover for such perils as tropical cyclones, earthquakes, extra-tropical cyclones, severe thunderstorms and wildfires.

State insurance office publishes pay-as-you-drive policies for insurers.

Firms says cloud computing and advanced analytics will be top investment priorities in 2010.

Reinsurers may reduce writings as a result, warns Towers Perrin

Tropics Software Technologies will support FWCJUA with agency and policy administration systems and support.

Top executives will have compensation slashed under new rules.

Efforts to amend the McCarran-Ferguson Act are now a top priority for Democratic leaders in the House and Senate.

Its release coincides with moves by the Treasury Department to impose pay curbs at companies that have received exceptional government assistance.

Insurers fearing the regulatory reach of a new consumer protection agency can breathe a sigh of relief.

The solution suite, delivered via Software-as-a-Service, includes iDashboards, Scorecards and iControl.

It's important that insurers take a strategic approach that enables them to get their SOA right the first time.

As insurers begin publishing third-quarter financials, analysts are finally shelving their questions about the industry’s financial stability.

Critics also worry the benefit needs of 78 million baby boomers would fall short under such a plan.

Insurers may need to alter operating models and product offerings to better service baby boomers.

While unclear whether AIG is a target, the Treasury Department will focus on the 25 best-paid execs that received federal bailout funds.

The House Judiciary Committee has passed H.R. 3596, The Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009 by a margin of 20-9.

Though awash in controversy, regulators and analysts say the troubled asset relief program helped avert disaster.

The solution, NexJ Contact for Finance, is expected to be rolled out to Wells Fargo Advisors’ entire population of advisors and support staff across all distribution channels.

Using banks as a distribution channel may be a way for life insurers to tap into the middle-income market.

The product, intended for U.S. life and annuity enterprises, combines CSC's insurance data model with Towers Perrin's consulting experience and financial modeling software.

What would BI apps look like if they weren't designed around the constraints of relational databases?

Anant Bhalla is responsible for corporate finance, corporate insurance, treasury operations, liquidity management, enterprise risk and capital management, economic capital and pricing oversight.

Philadelphia Business Journal acknowledges the IPM solutions provider as one of Philadelphia’s Best Places to Work and One of the Largest Software Developers.

The alliance fuses MajescoMastek's STG Suite with FirstBest UMS to help insurance carriers improve agent and underwriter efficiencies.

With the goal of promoting financial stability among financially interdependent institutions, the partners will study the need and optimal design of a systemic risk regulator.

A survey from LowerMyBills.com reveals that consumers shopping for auto insurance seek lower premiums, but many don’t know how to do so.

Conseco receives a boost from ratings agencies but Michigan Blues slide.

In weekly address, President says Congress should review McCarran-Ferguson Act.

Innovation Group, a global provider of enterprise software and business process outsourcing solutions to the property and casualty insurance industry, announced that super regional insurance carrier The Main Street America Group has completed its rollout of Innovation Group’s Innovation Auto offering. Already in production with Innovation Group’s FNOL solution, Main Street America has successfully deployed Innovation Auto throughout all of its regions.