Insurance

Not many of the insurers that already have reported their fourth quarter and year-end results in recent weeks seem to have faced as much speculation leading up to their report as American International Group Inc.

Survey finds that only 55% of enterprises confident in their ability to retrieve lost data quickly.

New NICB data show uptick in auto glass fraud.

Mission-critical platforms changing infrastructure toward extreme information, Gartner says.

Insurers may be interested to learn how banks are using cloud to manage their disaster recovery needs.

A new report notes life insurers are investing in purpose-built underwriting solutions to help contain costs and reduce cycle times.

As carriers chase down growth, policyholders are left with inflexible service and often brutal customer experience.

Mark Molitor, VP, IT Sales, Marketing & Corporate Support, CUNA Mutual Group, provides insight into the insurer's award-winning customer experience project.

The P&C association's new website is intended to help fight insurance fraud in Florida.

The most severe earthquake to hit New Zealand in 80 years seen as the most expensive natural disaster since Hurricane Ike hit the United States in 2008.

Independent financial advisers say that improving efficiency and time management is a goal for 2011, and carriers can help them achieve it.

Organizations have not yet automated many of the data integration and sales analytics operations needed, Ventana says.

Business analytics portfolio gets in-memory, integration and mobile add-ons.

Lawmakers set a series of ambitious deadlines, requiring regulators to complete roughly 170 new rules by July.

Survey finds cloud emerging as new outsourcing platform.

A.M. Best, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's announced ratings updates. The following are some of the most recent:

Companies are concerned about application vulnerabilities, mobile device management.

IBM says its Watson computer can do more than defeat human Jeopardy champs; it can be a tool for better and faster insurance processes.

The company’s edgeConnect user experience platform joins other insurance solutions chosen to provide building blocks designed to help insurers to transform their business processes.

A.M. Best report reveals hopeful signs in the industry’s capital position and liquidity, but warns of interest rate-related risks.