Insurance

The self-insurance arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has completed a modernization project.

The carrier revamped core systems for its commercial lines.

FastPath aims to help agents serve small business customers faster.

The specialty insurer also is using Guidewire for underwriting.

Berkshire Hathaway Direct Insurance Co. will initially focus on workers’ compensation and business owners’ package policies.

The deal is expected to close within six months.

Customers are pushing for new tools ranging from robo-advisers to omnichannel access, while insurers will use digital technologies to transform their offices, both on the front and back-end.

Accenture's flagship administration platform for life insurance is now available in a cloud version on Microsoft Azure.

ZocDoc Inc. and Oscar Health Insurance Corp. are providing free Internet advertising that will target the uninsured.

Insurance is changing: it will be lean and 'just in time,' driven by the Internet of Things, digitally delivered and serviced.

Clients of DRC's GameChanger Portal now can offer an all-digital signing process to their agents.

The selection extends the insurer's existing relationship with CSC for core systems.

Executives from XL Catlin, Navigators, ProSight Specialty and more discuss what's table stakes now to meet the digital demands of insurance customers in this exclusive INN roundtable.

The company says it is burdened by "IT impairment."

Looking to add $6.9 billion to its books, Allianz has partnered with China's Baidu search engine on digital distribution.

The insurer, which recently completed a merger with Catlin, has taken a 10% stake in the White Plains, N.Y. specialty carrier.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is scaling back marketing efforts for plans it’s selling this year under the Affordable Care Act, and may quit the business entirely in 2017.

Poland's PZU has implemented InsuranceSuite while Sompo Japan has selected the core systems software.

The company wants a better understanding of how smart technology impacts risk assessment and claim response.

The company has consolidated 13 lines onto the new claims system.