Insurance

In less than a minute, Celent Senior Analyst Mike Fitzgerald outlines how social media should fit into your business infrastructure.

OneShield's Dragon chosen by the medical malpractice/workers' compensation insurer for policy, rating, billing and business intelligence.

Early spending budgets from this year suggests that insurers are acting on the gorwing importance of data in the industry.

Predictive analytics is no longer just for actuaries. New tools for data-driven decision-making are reducing costs, increasing profitability and pushing into claims, sales, marketing and beyond.

From tracking this year's flu epidemic via social media, to Google's Instant searches, Amazon's recommendations and predictive keyboards on smartphones, businesses everywhere are embracing predictive analytics.

An insurer thriving in a modern, digital infosphere likely is structured differently than one that evolved from the analog age.

Dovetail Insurance, supplier of cloud-based insurance product-delivery services for P&C insurers, MGAs and brokers, has acquired NetComp Insurance, a growing web-based distributor of workers’ compensation insurance.

How to effectively deal with the insurance equivalent of enterprise resource planning: policy administration systems.

In 2012, banks sold $1.6 billion in life insurance premium, the second highest annual production level in the history of the bank channel. The bank’s record year was 2010, when it sold $1.8 billion in life insurance.

The three insurers join Aetna and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois in offering products through the private insurance exchange.

Sue Erhart originally joined the insurer in 2010.

Sales and hiring expectations are restrained, however, due to public policy concerns.

Policy administration, claims and billing to be centralized for all of Haverford's group of companies.

Claims Manager brought in to serve as cloud-hosted core claims processing system for PCM.

In anticipation of the announcement of designations for non-bank systemically important financial institutions, Howard Mills, director and chief advisor of Deloitte’s insurance industry group and former New York State Insurance superintendent, shares thoughts about some of the last-minute speculation and what options insurers will have if designated.

Mike Scyphers gets the nod from the specialty underwriter after four years with the company.

The insurance industry in Puerto Rico had a compound-annual-growth-rate of 5.8 percent between 2007 and 2011, despite a contracting national economy, according to a report from Timetric, a provider of online data, analysis and advisory services on the financial services industry. However, opportunities for further foreign investment and sustained growth in Puerto Rico are limited, due to the high rate of insurance penetration, according to Timetric’s “The Insurance Industry in Puerto Rico, Key Trends and Opportunities to 2017.”

Social media, content sharing by media and non-media organizations create large liability exposures.

Fixed and indexed annuity product support capabilities added to web-based system.

The phase where companies focus on accruing millions of followers and likes is ending; a focus on influence is what should replace it.