Distribution

Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group is planning an initial public offering for its subsidiary, Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation (LMAC).

As insurers expand accessibility for the customer and distribution systems, streamlining supporting processes becomes even more important.

While insurers' annuity sales seem to be steady, banks' fixed annuity sales fell 16% from Q3 to Q4 in 2009, and 43% year-over-year.

Given the importance of distribution management to P&C, life and annuity insurers in 2009, carriers should go one step further with PRM.

Sircon for Carriers is designed to streamline a producer’s lifecycle process by automating the licensing and appointing, producer compliance management and agent on-boarding aspects.

Nearly one-third of survey respondents use search engines first when researching policy options.

INN announces a call for nominations for the 2010 Women in Insurance Leadership program.

Expert doubts annuity sales to be stellar in 2010 with unemployment to remain high.

The seeming over-abundance of accolades can obscure real business accomplishments.

How the top six bank life programs make it work.