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Michael Raynor, author of "The Innovator's Manifesto" discusses where insurers need to focus innovation and disruption efforts.

BillingCenter to provide billing management system for all Amica’s lines of business.

The branchless bank is combining retail banking, retirement and insurance services in its online banking site.

Insurers looks to iPipeline’s Content Partner and iGO eApp for improved distribution of life and annuity products.

Erie Insurance announced three executive appointments today: Richard Burt, EVP, Product; Christina Marsh, SVP, Services; and Dionne Wallace Oakley, SVP, Human Resources.

Bank-owned life insurance (BOLI) assets reached $145.6 billion in the first quarter of 2012, an 8.7 percent year-over-year increase from the reported BOLI assets of $133.9 billion for the same period in 2011, according to the Michael White/Meyer-Chatfield Bank-Owned Life Insurance Holdings Report.

Benefit Builder, an alternative to a traditional inflation option, is designed to provide automatic increases in benefits that occur gradually over time, as well as voluntary buy-up options.

The Innovation Group plc released a new version of Insurer Analytics, which includes new functionality for policy analysis, insurance analytics, usability and extract/transform/load (ETL) process. The new version is designed to enable users to measure, monitor and manage and uncover insights and opportunities.

A bus tour brings agents and insurers together to discuss what each side can do to further the ambitions of the other.

The property/casualty industry is facing a number of potentially transformational forces, including increasing competition, consumerization, the number of communications options for both agents and customers, social networking, and an evolving regulatory environment, according to Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for P&C Insurance, 2012.”