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Sean McLaughlin has been named EVP, secretary and general counsel for Erie Indemnity Co., effective Aug. 26, 2013, where he will be responsible for the in-house Law Division. He succeeds James Tanous, who has retired.

Insurer is approved to provide health care coverage to eligible small businesses in all 58 counties in the state.

Five tips for developing an intelligent big data storage system.

The newly released data software is designed to offer 1,700 attributes to support new model development and refine segmentation.

Insurance aggregation platform looks to Informatica Cloud to accelerate process automation.

Allstate and CNA report net income increases; MetLife profits plummet from derivatives losses; two other insurers announce results.

Employee benefits mobile platform upgraded to accept vision claims, provide ID card through app.

When "modern era" computer systems were developed decades ago, many didn't realize that they would still be running insurers' business in the 21st Century. Developers hardly foresaw what was to come. To compete today, insurers have two options: patch or replace. Well there is a third … obsolescence.

Deal representative of the trend of insurers striking deals with asset managers in a push for fee income and new investment opportunities.

Jason Cole will join MetLife as VP of federal government relations as of Aug. 22, 2013. He will report to Heather Wingate, head of federal and state lobbying.

The shift to digital means carriers must focus on sales and service portals, agency management and compensation systems.

Specialty insurer makes purchase in an attempt to improve claims results by supplementing its auto direct repair program.

The more an agency embraces technology and offsite/cloud storage of critical data, the better off they will fair.

The vast majority of financial institutions do not believe their data technology is very effective, according to a global risk survey from Deloitte.

Most other regions declined, as did the Marsh Risk Management Global Insurance Index, Marsh said.

The new product, called Paramount, is designed to combine property, general liability coverage into a single package.

The new version, ForeSight 6.0, is designed to have improved tablet functionality and added customization.

Front-end systems and devices for customer engagement are getting more sophisticated, but back-end integration challenges are preventing insurers from taking advantage of them, survey shows.

Among life/annuity insurers, distribution is an area increasingly attractive for analytics investments. More than half of life/annuity insurers surveyed by Strategy Meets Action say they're currently investing in analytics technology to supplement distribution.

The shift to digital means carriers must focus on sales and service portals, agency management and compensation systems.