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While small employers are scaling back benefits this year—a potential hedge against higher costs expected under the U.S. health care law—WellPoint plans to spend $150 million preparing to sell on the exchanges.

Motivated by health care reform and the advent of exchanges, the mutual life insurer will offer dental, vision, life, disability and accident products on the Bright Choices Exchange.

Social media and mobile computing serve as a backdrop for several of Deloitte’s insurance tech trends and opportunities for 2013.

Insurer looks to ForgeRock’s architecture to provide the power, economics and agility required to establish secure access controls for mission-critical applications at scale across any population.

To expand its product offerings, distribution and geographic presence, Nevada General Insurance, a midsize P&C insurer, replaced its Web portal for policy quoting, issuance and endorsements with a packaged solution and integrated it with the policy administration system, enabling agent and direct-to-consumer sales.

Aetna, Empire BlueCross BlueShield and 15 other insurers set to participate in New York’s Health Benefits Exchange.

Insurer looks for improved time-to-market capabilities with new policy rating platform.

Clients and brokers are being provided with access to ACE's platform for electronic delivery of policies.

Erie Family Life Insurance set out to streamline the life insurance sales process and make it more intuitive to the independent agents who are used to selling the parent company’s personal lines P&C products.

Scott Schuetz brings senior-level experience from Aviva Life & Annuity, Wells Fargo and Citigroup.