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Aetna has dropped plans to offer health policies through the insurance exchanges in Ohio and its home state of Connecticut, the company revealed last week.

New capabilities to increase customer service, productivity for agencies, brokerages.

Federal officials now will allow some insurers to wait until 2015 to comply with the consumer protection.

Because CIOs are positioned at the nexus of the information flowing into and out of the company, the rise of big data provides them with a unique opportunity to demonstrate their strategic importance, according to Ernst & Young.

Specialty insurer to consolidate underwriting, policy administration, rating and billing in an attempt to improve scalability and lower expenses.

With inland marine and commercial output lines live, insurer says it will expand its use of the application.

Banks and insurers are to be treated equally when it comes to resolving systemically important financial institutions.

An outline of where and how insurers should be looking to use big data analytics throughout the enterprise.

Despite a drop in net income, which was partially caused by faltering underwriting incomes, captives’ surplus grew by $1.39 billion.

Owners of captive insurance companies tightened margins and used capital more efficiently in 2012, according to a new A.M. Best financials report on the industry. Over the longer term, the five-year combined ratio for the captive composite of 92.3 compares extremely favorably with the commercial casualty composite of 103.3.