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Frederick Eppinger plans to step down in 2016.

The insurer surveyed 1,000 IT pros and found that insurance is firmly on the radar for job-seekers.

Westfield Insurance has selected Majesco’s Distribution Management application to consolidate and replace multiple legacy distribution-management systems, Majesco said.

Women executives from Aetna, AIG, Chubb and more demonstrate a breadth of accomplishment in the industry.

Professional services company Towers Watson has agreed to acquire Brovada, a Canadian insurance technology business best known for the BrovadaOne platform, an application for integrating and automating interactions between insurers, and their agents and brokers.

Innovation does not always have to start with a big bang. It can start simple. Doing anything across 50 states is often a long, complex and expensive process, but it is possible to begin with an idea around a new model, product, channel and/or line of business to launch and experience innovation.

Whether Excellus BlueCross BlueShield learned that it had suffered a cyber attack because the organization or a contractor was looking for signs of hacking, or learned from a law enforcement agency is not clear, as the company isn’t saying much about the incident outside of formal announcements.

The insurer said it “learned that cyber attackers had executed a sophisticated attack to gain unauthorized access to our information technology systems.” The pertinent words here are “learned” and “sophisticated;” other organizations hacked have used the same terms.

Whether or not one buys into the idea of sustained dialogue with our cars in the next decade, it is certain that the Internet of Things will require new forms of record keeping, of which it’s very likely that Blockchain technology will be a crucial component.

Insurers often ask us about voice recognition IVR, and now we will now be able to point to a working model.