Insurance

New user interface and faster adoption lead the list of anticipated improvements.

Insurer's Benefit Advisors division will gain access to tools and products to help navigate health care reform.

Protection IUL designed to provide a low-premium option for producers and consumers.

Despite some of Jobs' more extreme eccentricities, his management skills offer sound advice for insurers striving to be innovative.

Big spenders may garner lots of likes on Facebook, but when it comes to social media interaction, smaller, specialized insurers lead the way.

Trade agreements could enhance regulatory cooperation and efficiency, promote competition, and prevent regulatory gaps and overlaps.

Calls for improved information sharing and a set of standards should alleviate insurers' concerns with cybersecurity—but it also puts some pressure on insurers to update themselves along with the standards.

Like other paradigmatic technologies before it, cloud is just a tool that requires the right people working on it in the right environment to be effective.

The record-high interest in hiring from the middle of last year is continuing to grow, as 56.2 percent of insurers are planning to increase staff over the next 12 months, according to the latest “Insurance Labor Market Study” conducted by Jacobson Group, an insurance staffing company, and Ward Group, and insurance consultancy.

After a six-month search, the health insurer announced hospital head Joseph Swedish will fill its vacant chief executive role.

Market positioning cited as primary reason for IT budget growth; 10 percent of insurers will reduce IT budgets by 10 percent this year, SMA finds.

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner woes offer stark lessons for insurers overseeing IT projects.

Anticipating a more customer-centric strategy, insurers will look to new data sources and analytical techniques to sharpen risk understanding and customer profiling, according to a new report.

Purchase highlights recent reports indicating life insurers are outspending P&C insurers when it comes to online/mobile quoting systems.

California leads states in QCs; suspicious loss of jewelry increased 86 percent.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, acting as regulatory overseer to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will further review the force-placed market and its costs.

Earlier today, Marsh announced strategic changes to its Flood Service Center (FSC) that will allow it to service standard flood insurance policies as part of the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) Write Your Own (WYO) Program.

As a combined average, 42.3 percent of Europeans switching auto or household insurers, or buying for the first time, did so online last year, according to “Aggregation Metrics: Consumer Approaches to Insurance Comparison Sites in Europe,” a research paper from Finaccord. This up from 35.4 percent in 2008, making online aggregators and online comparison sites the fastest-growing distribution channel.

Sue Harnett comes to the company from Citigroup.

The P&C sector leads insurers in mobile offerings, investments; however, life/annuity insurers are investing more in quote and buy capabilities.