Insurance

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U.S. appeals court rules the government can’t give financial assistance to anyone buying coverage on the insurance marketplace run by federal authorities.

Financial returns continued to improve; Ward's 50 companies, which include Aetna, Great American Life, Liberty National Life and others, produced a 21.8-percent statutory return on average equity from 2009 to 2013.

Insurer deploys electronic delivery and reduces cycle time — from policy submission to final disposition — for participating customers by more than two weeks.

Continually building trust and credibility in the data is the key to a successful data warehouse.

ForeSight illustration app is intended to boost agent efficiency and mobility for National Life Group’s life products.

The hurricane weakened to Category 1 upon landfall on the North Carolina Outer Banks.

High performance claims handling could turn overlooked data into actionable information with considerable economic impact, Aite Group says.

Brickstreet Mutual adopts agile methodology for improved transparency, collaboration and efficiency.

Three recent HR moves demonstrate that large life insurers recognize customer experience as a strategic differentiator.

Rebecca Tadikonda will be responsible for global strategy to drive financial performance.

Revenue rose 7 percent, led by the company’s Optum unit, which has been credited with helping to fix Healthcare.gov.

Major shifts in the health care market will lead to disruptive and ever-changing changes, including private exchanges, and those that realize the change and adapt to it will be the ones that are successful.

Apple and IBM have entered an agreement that will result in more than 100 industry-specific enterprise solutions, including native apps developed for insurance and other markets. Forrester Research says the partnership has a good chance of succeeding for these reasons.

Jamie Plesser will lead the digital strategy for social media, social channels and the website.

Insurers actually have more data analytics resources than other industries.

The agreement, which will result in more than 100 industry-specific enterprise apps, will significantly change how banking, healthcare, insurance and other markets operate.

Mobile Sales Agent, Mobile Underwriter and Mobile Claims Adjustor are among the enterprise solutions scheduled for release.

Bringing together clinical and claims data is a key to population management as the combination of data helps identify two-to-three times more patients for intervention services.

The two companies will work together to develop applications tailored to work with IBM’s data analytics and cloud services.