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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.

Online distribution isn't just for personal auto anymore. Insurers are now expanding electronic application functionality to small commercial, life and annuity and beyond, leveraging business rules and third-party data to satisfy consumers and agents, expand their reach and shrink sales cycles.

Insurance can be complicated and even the best-informed consumer wants advice - from family, friends and professionals. And that's where the opportunity for differentiation lays for insurers.

AIG and Principal are making moves to limit their proprietary trading and investments, attempting to appease regulators just as MetLife, The Hartford and Allstate have done before them.

Joe Nestegard fills the slot vacated by Rhett Rayburn, who has been named VP of GEICO’s southeast region in Georgia.

The technology, legal framework and customer expectations have reached a point where carriers need to implement e-signature capabilities, according to Novarica.

By a wide margin, California led in luxury car thefts from 2009 to 2012, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

Steven Zabel, former SVP of long-term care insurance, CFO of insurance products and SVP of audit for Genworth, will oversee Unum's enterprise risk management program.

New unit created to provide specialty treaty reinsurance solutions on both a quota-share and excess-of-loss basis.

The number of legacy systems in the P&C space continues to decrease. However, the overall success rate of the replacement projects remains relatively low, according to a recent SMA report.

Application intended to automate policy-, billing- and claims-administration functions for auto insurer.