Insurance

Jonathan Zaffino now is responsible for managing Everest National Insurance Company and U.S. Insurance Operations after a stint at Marsh.

Supported by the Accenture Cloud Platform and using Microsoft Azure, the suite is intended to enhance underwriting effectiveness, reduce loss costs, improve customer retention and drive profitable growth.

Hartford plunged more than 90 percent from its 2007 peak to its low in March 2009 of $3.33 a share amid the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and received the second- largest bailout package among insurers under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The swap is part of an effort to upgrade technology that also includes new e-mail software and stronger security.

The global reinsurer is moving from a homegrown system with BlackBerry phones to a MobileIron offering with Windows phones and a bring-your-own-device option.

The latest version enables ‘anywhere’ access and engagement, multiple language interfaces and a better view of information and relationships to offer more personalized customer experiences.

New Software for Agent Portal Offering is expected to help the carrier modernize its technology.

The implementation began with a new customer documents communication strategy and the elimination of CSE’s internal print and mail operation.

With the addition of Baja's 88 locations, Confie expands it presence in Texas to 210 offices.

The NetBOP Insurance Portal has been expanded to serve Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota, South Carolina, Utah, and Wisconsin.

Veronica Scotti has a deep background in reinsurance and risk management, with a career spanning corporate finance advisory, asset management and strategy.

ClaimsVISION will serve as the city’s single and centralized workers’ compensation claims system to provide highly automated and streamlined claims processing.

The insurer says accelerated claims turnaround time helps meet the demands of today's quick-service consumers.

Two of the state’s most-powerful lobbies, the insurance industry and trial lawyers, are gearing up for a fight over a push to ease penalties against companies that deny homeowners their hail-damage claims.

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Vince Cole previously was EVP of global strategy and business performance.

This makes USAA the first major U.S. financial institution to deploy a full-scale rollout of voice and facial recognition.

Social, mobile, analytics, big data, cloud and digital strategy soon will be basic capabilities, and insurers that get bogged down in ROI studies could miss opportunities.

Kevin Krzeminski will lead distribution efforts for several group insurance products.

IDC Financial Insights says spending on core systems modernization, transformation and optimization is driving the increase.