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Survey of executives finds many carriers hindered by inflexible legacy systems that limit access to data and analytical tools.

President Obama proposes a decrease of crop insurance subsidies and cutting out all direct payments to farmers in his latest budget. The administration is estimating the move would save $37.8 billion over 10 years.

Casualty to increase the most, followed by property and non-CAT risk programs.

Mobile platform designed to provide web payment functionality and electronic document management services.

Rebranding effort takes effect as company expects to gross proceeds around $600 million through public offering.

Managing general agency turns to EagleEye in an attempt to gain visibility of its critical business performance.

Configurable app blocks network connectivity; separate “What If Calculator” demonstrates the impact of tickets, accidents, moving and changing vehicles on insurance rates.

The life insurer's chairman and CEO spoke frankly before regulators, saying the "traditional business of life insurance does not pose systemic risk."

While reinsurance renewal rates were stable as of April 1, Guy Carpenter reports that traditional and alternative capital sources are converging to change the marketplace.

While reauthorization of The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is likely to receive strong support in Congress, success may come very late in the process, predicts Robert Gordon, SVP, policy development and research, for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) during the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Spring National Meeting in Houston yesterday.

Platform designed to include support information, calculators and tools to help consumers learn about life insurance and selecting a policy.

Riverside to use SunGard’s enterprise accounting system for investment and compliance, in addition to accounting.

Big data is becoming more and more responsible for insurance business initiatives, including advertising.

Delivering easily accessible, multimedia resources that are broken into small packages is key to engaging and educating individuals, according to new research.

Fitch outlines the financial figures of life insurers and warns of macroeconomic headwinds in 2013.

Glenn Shapiro promoted to replace the retired George Neale.

iPipeline, a provider of on-demand marketing, selling and processing technology for insurers, distributors and producers, announced American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co. has selected the Content Partner platform to aggregate and distribute annuity product information and forms to 1,200 distributors via the iPipeline distributor network.

Americans are relying on technology to help with their personal finance needs, but most (60 percent) use it to simplify and automate financial tasks such as banking and bill payment, according to a recent survey conducted by Northwestern Mutual's financial literacy website, TheMint.org.

Insurer fears negative publicity if the former AIG CEO continues lawsuit against the federal government.

Trying to define a data scientist's duties is tough but it can be even tougher to find someone with the proper skills to carry them out—here's some advice.