Insurance

Carriers increasingly are confronted with the inherent limitations of legacy platforms as they redefine their go-to-market strategies.

An Accenture survey finds that more and more customers are open to providing greater access to their personal data if it means more personalized products or better value.

Health Net Inc. and insurers in at least 14 states will let consumers who missed open enrollment sign up for health plans in April.

Transformational thinking isn’t just about ‘intelligent thoughts’. It is about converting transformational concepts into practical steps that will accomplish real enterprise transformations. (For a good definition of transformational thinking vs. legacy thinking, see my first blog.) This week we focus on how insurance marketing efforts have to transform to add value.

More than 1 million people waited until the last five days to sign up, and early indications are that many were young minorities.

Allstate pursues “synchronized thinking” toward technology.

Verisk’s new Telematics Division will provide discount programs and usage-based initiatives.

The promotions of Ian Rowe and Leighton Freeman will strengthen underwriting and claims, company says.

Higher losses and premium rates likely to result from ACA open enrollment extensions, Moody's says.

Industry executives share their perspectives in a recent survey.

The figure doesn’t include enrollments through separate state exchanges or people who started the process and weren’t able to finish because of technical difficulties.

Using newly created tactics, Liberty Mutual has been able to have many of Progressive's patent claims cancelled, an important step in fending off the infringement case Progressive has filed against it and other insurers.

Attention should now turn to the quality of coverage Obamacare enrollees receive, their access to medical services and insurer preparations for 2015.

Atlas will provide cloud-based rating, underwriting, policy administration and other applications to the specialty insurer.

Shares typically are seen more as helpful information from a friend than as brand messages.

The general IT spending ratio range of 2-4 percent still holds; more benchmarking data in Novarica’s recent report.

Annual awards are based on 3,835 customer scores and rankings for 15 auto, home, health and 14 life insurers.

P&C insurer looks to BillingCenter for oversight of billing operations, including agency and direct bill, across all of its lines of business.

Former Coca Cola Refreshments CIO takes on the responsibility for all IT initiatives, with a focus on delivering secure, compliant and cost-effective technologies to WellPoint business capabilities.

Insurer's technology unit, credited with helping fix the broken federal insurance website, is increasingly being used by state officials to salvage their troubled exchanges.