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Separate studies from ING and MetLife show that couples don’t discuss and lack adequate life insurance.

Duncan Morrison to facilitate foreign admitted placements through European relationships network.

Two new apps for producers designed to enhance organization and connectivity.

Esurance has expanded its usage-based insurance program and now offers both UBI and traditional auto insurance in Arkansas. Esurance is backed by Allstate, the largest publicly held personal lines insurer in the United States.

Solution offers mobile applications enabled by cloud in an attempt to help business users achieve results.

Emerging technologies and the business changes they require upon implementation were the main topics of discussion at Celent's recent peer networking event.

InsureRight 2.0 partially designed to improve workers’ compensation loss ratios through risk-based pricing.

Hurricane Isaac is not likely to be a market-changing event that would tip the balance to a hard property market.

More than half of insurers surveyed now use anti-fraud technology solutions, according to “The State of Insurance Fraud Technology: A study of insurer use, strategies and plans for anti-fraud technology,” from the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud and SAS. However the study found that while the majority of respondents (79 percent) said that special investigations units are the sponsors of anti-fraud projects, other departments typically control the project budgets, which could slow the implementation of the technologies, the study said.

Company to purchase up to $5 billion at $2.50 per share.

Workers’ compensation and commercial property experienced the largest price adjustments.

Reinsurers look to new opportunities for growth as buyers remain tepid.

Island Insurance has selected Guidewire PolicyCenter to replace its underwriting and policy administration solutions. The initial rollout of PolicyCenter will serve Island Insurance’s commercial auto business and eventually will be deployed for all personal and commercial lines.

As the technology has matured, so have the marketing messages supporting it.

Martz will be responsible for planning, reporting and internal control functions and general corporate finance activities.

New report indicates that the portion of the typical IT budget—in a number of industries, insurance included—allocated to outsourcing is up nearly 23 percent.

The life and health insurer expects increased productivity and greater flexibility to enable increased scalability and forecasting capabilities.

hCentive Inc., a post-Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health care exchange technology company, has upgraded its platform for integrating private health plans with PPACA-mandated state health insurance exchanges: WebInsure Exchange Manager. The enhancements will assure health insurers of the performance, reliability and market needs of their plans within state exchanges, the company says.

The insurance industry uses just 20 percent of mobile apps' potential, research firm says. However a few insurers are doing it right.

The branchless bank is combining retail banking, retirement and insurance services in its online banking site.