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The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued a mandate requiring New York life insurers to search the U.S. Social Security Administration’s Death Master File every three months in order to find beneficiaries of the recently deceased who are unaware they are eligible for benefits.

Insurance Networking News and Celent released INN’s sixth annual technology solution provider ranking for the insurance industry last night at an awards event held at the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in Orlando.

System includes pre-loaded business rules engine and builds on CSC’s claims and risk management expertise.

Collaboration will progress with a proof of concept describing areas where ACORD data standards may map to XBRL insurance solvency and other business information taxonomies.

About 68 percent of European life insurers polled in a new survey have a positive outlook for their businesses in spite of ongoing market turbulence.

Company also releases actuarial calculation engine to reduce launch time for new products.

Association to roll out knowledge base and enhance social media capabilities on Website.

All three implementations will be deployed via private cloud.

Cloud is on everyone's radar—but not yet in everyone's data center.

These statistics surrounding disability insurance and public awareness from Sun Life’s recent report, titled “Will workers in America hope to dodge the bullet, remain blind to the risks or simply hide?” despite becoming familiar sights this month, remain startling given another fact cited by the report: Medical problems contribute to roughly half of all personal bankruptcies and home foreclosures in the United States.