Insurance

Manulife Financial Corp., Canada’s largest life insurer, agreed to buy New York Life Insurance Co.’s retirement plan services business in a deal that will boost assets under administration by about $50 billion.

The cloud has become a significant part of the IT environment at many organizations, as they adopt public, private and hybrid cloud strategies. Here are some of the interesting developments in the area of cloud services during the past year.

New offerings target MGAs, TPAs, workers comp, self-insureds and mutual carriers

IT modernization effort focuses on more adaptive product roll-outs and improved customer experience.

Blind-spot and lane-departure systems are immature, and drivers must still learn how to use them, according to AAA engineering experts.

The insurance industry’s list of cars and trucks that do the best job of keeping owners alive in a crash jumped 82 percent this year against a backdrop of U.S. recalls of older models that were killing their passengers.

Claims solutions from Accenture and Guidewireare deemed best in class for technology, functionality and customer service.

By leveraging a managed SaaS solution, the global insurer gains greater flexibility across both its internal and customer-facing processes.

Digital competition may dictate a new organizational architecture in which emerging digital processes coexist with traditional ones.

Even in technology, good things may take time.

A timeline of an iconic insurance brand.

Easing the regulatory burden is the happy by-product of many core system upgrades.

Insurance Networking News presents a collection of the most-viewed slideshows from 2014.

Insurity’s integrated policy, billing, claims, reinsurance and enterprise data platform was selected as part of Caterpillar’s core-systems modernization initiative.

Insurers are learning that compliance doesn’t always have to be about red tape and adding cumbersome new procedures.

The consulting actuary’s insurance software division will become a privately held and affiliated company providing life insurance policy administration software.

P&C Insurer is replacing multiple legacy systems to gain business agility while easing IT burdens.

Majesco's deal to acquire Agile Technologies will expand the company’s global portfolio of products and services.

MetLife’s Business Owner Policy portfolio is now available in five states via Dovetail’s click-and-quote portal.

Newly launched apps are intended to help agents and insurers address the challenges of client retention and agent productivity, the companies said.