Insurance

With absorption of AQS, provider plans to offer advanced ISO rating services.

Activist regulators, increased CAT losses pose larger risks, companies must adapt, A.M. Best says.

Personal and commercial P&C rates increase 3 and 4 percent, respectively, for the month of February.

Critical illness insurance covers more diseases than in the past and is increasingly marketed as a financial protection product.

With the growth of the insurance-linked securities market comes benefits and “healthy competition” for reinsurers.

For the second year, Berkshire Hathaway is the only insurer to make it into the top 50, but Fortune’s full list of the World’s Most Admired Companies includes 19 insurers.

Liberty Mutual, State Farm and four others announce quarterly and year-end results.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is being asked to answer several questions regarding its decision to reject Fannie Mae's recent force-placed insurance proposal.

Building IT/business alignment into business operations and a sense of urgency are two keys to success, according to panelists at Celent’s recent Innovation & Insight Day in Boston. Making legacy systems a thing of the past also helps.

Frank Baron, formerly of AIG and Reliance National, will succeed Roger Brunner.

Don Desiderato becomes responsible for investment operations and warehouse platforms; Cara-Anne Gagliano, Thomas Hendry join New York Life as senior executives.

Adapting social practices in core systems operations may be insurers' best opportunity to leverage social networks.

Form factor and flexibility are what computer users want.

Capgemini report finds internet/mobile channels have great potential to make customers happier, which may come at the expense of agents.

Hurricane losses could average $10 billion every four years.

Generation Y consumers present a unique and fast-moving target for insurers; catching them may require real-time insights and even faster, more agile systems.

The move to new and unfamiliar markets is opening up insurers to risks about which they have virtually no data.

Jacobson Group and ejsSearch together hope to create an international insurance search and staffing firm.

Celent recognizes the technology initiatives of 15 insurers and names XL Group the Model Insurer of the Year.

2014 could be one of the largest open enrollments in history.