Insurance

Survey reveals that U.S. insurers have more confidence than their non-insurance counterparts when strengthening competitive position through mergers and acquisitions.

State Farm sends mobile units to meet with evacuees.

USAA, Securian Financial highlight annual ranking.

New offerings provide principal and income guarantees to help consumers protect and grow retirement income.

Insurer expects to streamline policy administration, enhance underwriting accuracy and efficiency, and provide automated, real-time billing.

Business process management (BPM) system designed to enable carriers to streamline and automate end-to-end business processes.

Program to give rural telecommunications providers alternative to self-insured plans, club programs.

The Principal's third-party administrator expense allowance program extended six more months.

Planning and IT business alignment central to success, survey results suggest.

Aon study reveals 4% increase in the average long-term liability claim size.

Munich Re expects to reduce nearly $500,000 in annual electricity costs with new solar power system; Harleysville already realizing energy cost reductions of 25% since 2008.

While traditional channels are still heavily used for communications, communicating electronically is now critical for insurers.

Premium sales of individual life combination products jumped 62% in 2010, reaching $1.2 billion.

Still sorting out how they can leverage it, almost one-third of French insurers are considering investment in social networks, a clear sign demonstrating that value can be generated from data gathering from and customer interactions through this medium.

Experts at the IASA Educational Conference and Business Show came up with lots of potential answers, but a solution continues to elude us.

When creating an “influence channel,” insurers and agents could really help each other: Insurers need social media fan recruitment, and agents need content.

Five Key Points That Should be Part of Every Social Media Policy

Electronic fulfillment solution to manage forms processing electronically.

Information manager job descriptions altering from traditional infrastructure focus to being business agile and innovative, says new study.

The number of claims filed with Travelers via mobile devices more than tripled in the first four months of 2011 versus 2010.