Insurance

Investment accounting providers see 445-percent growth in insurance clients; CEO credits SaaS approach.

Prices for all standard commercial insurance lines rose for the fifth consecutive quarter, with commercial lines increasing 5 percent in aggregate, according Towers Watson’s “Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey” (CLIPS), which compared the Q1 2012 prices of policies with those of the same period last year.

With a median salary of $49,700 to $51,000, these professionals are in demand by financial services organizations—including insurance—according to finance and accounting staffing firm.

Penalty settles allegations AIG wrongfully tried to avoid paying state residual market assessments and taxes.

Comparatively light catastrophe activity since the beginning of 2012 has strengthened balance sheets for reinsurers, increased already plentiful capacity and moderated pricing trends, according to a briefing from Guy Carpenter, a provider of risk and reinsurance intermediary services.

MiAgents iPad application is designed to enable OMI's agents to spend more time in the field gathering intelligence, which is then analyzed through the app for actionable intelligence.

The year-end figure is comprised of redundancies in personal lines, commercial property and commercial liability, offset by deficiencies in workers' compensation and financial guaranty.

Implementing mobile can be an expedient process, but reaching mobile customers requires a completely distinct mindset from mobilizing field-service employees.

‘Policy Print as a Service’ designed as a cloud-based option that aims to eliminate paper-based transactions.

Industry-wide first quarter annuity sales reached $53.1 billion, which is down about 2.5 percent from $54.5 billion the previous quarter, according to the Insured Retirement Institute.

The Invisible Gorilla, New Coke and other phenomena can teach us to anticipate and embrace unexpected twists.

A new report from Novarica anticipates a widening analytics gap between large and mid-sized insurers.

The MarketScout report for May outlines upward adjustments for both personal and commercial lines.

A dynamic atmosphere prevailed at an IASA technology session as insurers debated the challenges and possibilities of innovation.

Students from St. John's University, University of Wisconsin, University of Central Arkansas, East Carolina University and five other schools were named recipients of the 3rd annual program.

A new report outlines the incentives behind four stages of analytics implementation.

On day three of the 2012 IASA Annual Education Conference and Business Show, Louise Ziemann, IASA’s president-elect, shares her vision for this upcoming year, Novarica’s Karlyn Carnahan addresses insurers’ need to drive growth and INN takes a peek into the Chief Information/ Chief Technology Officer roundtable.

Software provider touts new offering as an SaaS, SOA-based core system available through the cloud.

Aite Group Senior Analyst Stephen Applebaum outlines the many social media initiatives insurers are embarking upon from this year's IASA conference in San Diego.

Purchasing new software to solve your technical problems is only the first step; maintaining agile, situation-specific development processes is equally imperative.