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Vendor hopes Xiance Desktop will enable insurers to better predict a property's vulnerability to natural disasters.

Vendor claims its new platform can sharply reduce the data security risks of insurers.

According to a new study from Strategy Meets Action, social media has become a nearly universal practice among insurers (nine percent reported not having a social media strategy or initiative planned), however, very few are beyond the basics of posting and monitoring.

The investment income woes of property/casualty insurers did not begin with the 2008 financial crisis, new analysis from Fitch Ratings reveals.

Small-business owners trust independent insurance agents and commercial insurance carriers more than other financial services businesses, according to carrier-sponsored survey.

Insurance executives downplay their service delivery and mobile capabilities so far, which is promising.

MIT Sloan and IBM survey points to organizational differences as main factor in competitive advantage with data.

As future leaders are identified, groomed and mentored, it is important to know the traits that must be innate and those that can be developed.

There can be, if insurers become fully aware of the ways to secure data.

Despite slow growth when compared to second-quarter figures, increases in year-to-year annuity sales remain strong.

Vendor's Underwriting Management System, beginning with North America, will seek to unify XL’s global underwriting platform.

Enhanced version designed to simplify agent-carrier workflows and streamline marketing processes.

Independence Blue Cross is in the process of testing a wireless-enabled fitness device and apps that can be used to support wellness, the Philadelphia-based insurer reports.

Insurers believe creative disruption has value, and they want their share.

Issue First to deliver permanent life insurance policies before underwriting process is completed by asking eight critical questions up-front.

Private equity firm Genstar Capital acquires policy administration software unit.

Three lessons to learn from the ongoing global economic crisis.

AIG, The Hartford, Munich Re, Prudential, Sun Life and nine others release third-quarter figures.

Insurance units of bank holding companies generated a record $7.9 billion in fees during the first half of this year, up 14 percent from the same period in 2010.

Against regulatory pressures, insurers plan to meet challenges of a sluggish economy, weak pricing environment, and inability to generate underwriting profits with organic growth strategies.