Insurance

With acquisition, Applied Systems can directly service and support U.K. users of Applied TAM.

Luis Chapana hired in an effort to expand the firm's Latin American coverage.

CEOs and other senior executives are increasingly engaged as their companies step up efforts to build digital enterprises.

Wholesale brokerage and reinsurance company Swett & Crawford announced that Nancy Gibbons has joined the company as VP of human resources. Most recently, Gibbons was director HR operations for Novelis Inc.

Aetna has dropped plans to offer health policies through the insurance exchanges in Ohio and its home state of Connecticut, the company revealed last week.

New capabilities to increase customer service, productivity for agencies, brokerages.

Specialty insurer to consolidate underwriting, policy administration, rating and billing in an attempt to improve scalability and lower expenses.

With inland marine and commercial output lines live, insurer says it will expand its use of the application.

Banks and insurers are to be treated equally when it comes to resolving systemically important financial institutions.

An outline of where and how insurers should be looking to use big data analytics throughout the enterprise.

Despite a drop in net income, which was partially caused by faltering underwriting incomes, captives’ surplus grew by $1.39 billion.

Owners of captive insurance companies tightened margins and used capital more efficiently in 2012, according to a new A.M. Best financials report on the industry. Over the longer term, the five-year combined ratio for the captive composite of 92.3 compares extremely favorably with the commercial casualty composite of 103.3.

OneClaim was created, implemented and launched in just 10 months, saving the P&C insurer a projected $108 million in the first year.

Less than half of respondents indicate that their organization has a plan for making use of the health data that’s available to them, according to a survey of CIOs and other C-level executives.

Company's exchange platform to be integrated as part of agreement to facilitate public exchange enrollments.

One aspect of the update is an agent portal designed to supplement submission process and online collaboration.

Among the areas to be covered are the historical use of data to solve business problems, data presentation and visualization, avoiding biases and how to structure a research program.

Allianz Life looks to improve its customer service and product development with new core system.

Adoption numbers are up from 18 months ago, and users are reporting up to an hour and a half saved per day, according to a recent survey.

With acquisition, firm becomes part of Digital Benefit Advisors’ network, opens North Carolina office.