Insurance

Survey reveals that online applications now initiate a majority of new policy sales.

Insurers contemplating integrating mobile platforms into their enterprises must take heed of this disturbing trend and make tough calls.

Australia’s largest insurer looks to expands into U.S. forced-placed insurance market.

Fixed annuity sales month-to-month rose 6% in the first quarter, and Western National and New York Life contributed the most sales.

As FEMA’s Direct Servicing Agent, the property/casualty software and services provider will expand services to insurance agents, policyholders, lenders and other stakeholders.

Insurers fail to pay timely benefits because life and annuities business units’ motives for discovery of insureds’ demises differ and their separate blocks are administered on siloed platforms.

After profiling 10 document automation systems for its recent report, Celent suggests five factors to consider before investing in the systems.

Health insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may pose a threat to COBRA.

Risks rise as employees increasingly use personal mobile devices for enterprise purposes.

Doug Cox, director of GMC Software Technology, discusses unified communication strategies.

In an effort to assist its producers in managing their pipelines and communicating with carriers, one agency implemented enterprise social networking tools.

By its nature, the military requires its personnel to be constantly on the move, and USAA seeks to move just as quickly-if not faster-with its mobile offerings.

As rule makers finalize the Dodd-Frank Act behind closed doors, insurers fear they will suffer collateral damage.

With the dollar falling and global capital markets still uncertain, dealing with financial risk is becoming tougher for life insurers.

Insurers need to figure out how to use new collaboration tools.

Insurance business process outsourcing market blossoms; driving costs out of the claims process.

FCCI chooses Sword Insurance Portal; Physicians Mutual selects InsPro Enterprise.

The recently released white paper from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on the role of producers in state exchanges, while helpful, leaves many crucial questions unanswered.

Does this mean that our technology providers have emerged from the economic sweat lodge and are now gathered around the tribal fires chanting “Kumbaya” for your benefit? Probably not.

Through May, State Farm provided more than $2.5 billion in catastrophe claim payments to its customers across North America.