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The United States Senate passed the Senate 2012 Farm Bill in a 64-35 vote. The Senate version of the bill would cost $498 billion, save $23.6 billion over the next 10 years and eliminate $5 billion per year in direct payments. The Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) would become the primary risk management tool for farmers.
June 22 -
Rebranded and updated CyberEdge product attempts to stay on top of risk trends, such as cloud computing resources.
June 21 -
SAP report shows companies with mature best practices double operating margins and triple revenue growth.
June 21 -
Company also announces acquisition of Policy Technologies International.
June 21 -
The many competitive advantages mobile can offer go to waste if you're using quick fixes to bring your back end up to speed.
June 21
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Winning papers to be published in a special edition of The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practices.
June 21 -
Formerly at MetLife, Tim Schmidt to assume role of chief investment officer for U.S. businesses.
June 21 -
In response to concerns raised about land-use restrictions and insurance mandates, the Senate and Banking Committee agree to scale back requirements.
June 21 -
As workers hope to prevent income shortages throughout retirement, insurers turn to new mediums to provide new advice.
June 20 -
While almost half of respondents to a recent survey emphasize that a prolonged low interest rate environment is the greatest threat to their business, 71 percent expect increases in new life and annuity premiums of 4 percent or more in the first quarter of 2012.
June 20 -
New VP hires will be charged with integrating business strategy with technology implementation and spearheading the company's application solutions.
June 20 -
Principles intended to provide a framework that aligns investment objectives with the values of society at large.
June 20 -
YourLife Indexed UL to provide annual point-to-point interest crediting strategy.
June 20 -
Insurer also picks up agent self-service and electronic billing software.
June 20 -
Annual report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau outlines the downward trend in thefts as well as the 10 areas with the most vehicle thefts per capita.
June 19 -
Second annual StoneRiver survey indicates a lack of enterprise risk management, readiness for changing regulatory climate.
June 19 -
In the report, entitled Data Agility: Turning a Liability into an Asset, Tabb assesses spending and implementation plans at financial firms, and their ramifications with enterprise information sharing and distribution. Tabb found that spending on internal resources will drop to 39 percent of the overall IT budget by 2014, reflecting a 5-percent decline from 2012 and a 27 percent decrease since 2000.
June 19 -
Payment error decreased nearly 10 percent from 2011 to 2012, according to the American Medical Association's fifth annual National Health Insurer Report Card.
June 19 -
Vendors are beginning to prepare for the growing demand for enterprisewide social CRM.
June 19
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App details Starrs portfolio of products, senior leadership team and global footprint.
June 18