Insurance

Financial leaders offer comments and remembrances; Benmosche’s career brought him to Chase Manhattan Bank, PaineWebber, MetLife and AIG.

Andrew Rose, CEO of aggregator Compare.com, says his company's mission is to provide a lifeline to small and midsize insurers who are trying to compete with the massive marketing budgets of the largest carriers.

Policy admin system chosen for ease of integration and speed of implementation, insurer says.

Benmosche came out of retirement in August 2009 to take over a company reeling from losses on failed housing-market bets, and led the insurer for half a decade.

Winners will be selected based on their ability to develop products and services with the potential to bring significant innovation to the industry.

Kevin Counihan failed to directly answer other questions regarding re enrollments, tax data and if illegal immigrants were provided coverage.

Demand for technology, claims and actuarial positions is skyrocketing -- but those positions are the hardest to fill, according to The Jacobson and Ward Groups.

Novarica research shows that nearly 40 percent of P&C and life/health/annuity carriers are currently replacing or planning to replace a policy administration system.

Tina Workman, VP of accounting and assistant treasurer at Shelter, talks to INN about the challenge of re-engineering business processes with long-time staff as the company moved from a green-screen environment to cloud-based software.

AXA Capital Ventures is investing in companies that focus on customer acquisition, climate change, travel insurance and more.

Seven Iowa insurers, including The Principal, Delta Dental, and Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance, are investors in the project, which provides capital and mentoring to six technology startups focusing on providing insurance-specific services.

Joe Dahlquist, who has been with the company since 2001, will serve as a bridge between IT and the business side.

Victims could includes millions of people who aren’t Anthem members, but used their Blue Cross or Blue Shield insurance in states, including Texas and Florida, where Anthem operates partnerships.

Financial strength, taking advantage of opportunistic ventures and market demand for products and channels ranked as the drivers of capital utilization decisions, according to Towers Watson.

Tim Mahoney, former CEO of the Americas division at Marsh, is now chief strategy officer for JLT's specialty operations.

The Allstate subsidiary, which offers a range of insurance products online, is beginning its Canadian push with auto insurance.

Superfish uses image-recognition algorithms that watch where users point on their screens and suggest ads based on the images they’re looking at.

Version 3.0.10 of the core systems suite offers prefills and shortcuts intended to save time, as well as document management functionality.

Often, the notion is that the internet will eliminate the need for insurance agents, just as the rise in online travel sites put travel agents out of business. But this analogy is not comparable.

Anticipated benefits of the new core systems suite include greater automation and streamlined processing, faster time to market, improved data integrity and lower cost of ownership.