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Sen. Bob Corker argued against enactment of sweeping legislation granting the government new resolution powers over systemically important companies, suggesting Congress should give the Treasury authority on a case-by-case basis.

The money, distributed from AIG's Fair Fund, will be mailed to more than 257,000 affected AIG investors in the next few months.

Insurers trying to obtain the sage advice of industry research experts may feel it’s akin to hitting a moving target, but the result is industry analysis excellence.

New research from Forrester finds marketing automation software the No. 1 packaged software application for insurers in 2009.

Greater press reports that senior policymakers are meeting to discuss creation of a commission to regulate financial products.

The announcement comes on the heels of last Friday's news that Ameriprise Financial Inc. also would not accept bailout money.

Peter Carlson will succeed Joseph Prochaska Jr. as chief accounting officer.

Karen Clark & Co., a Boston-based firm comprising catastrophe risk, catastrophe models, and catastrophe risk management consultants, reports that it has been selected by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) as the lead consultant in developing a recommendation on the scope, timeline and potential costs of building a national catastrophe multi-peril model for personal lines.

Three-quarters of U.S. consumers prefer buying insurance products through agents and other trusted sources, but younger and higher-income consumers are more inclined to purchase products via the Web than through an agent and are more inclined to switch insurers, according to findings of a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers conducted by Burmuda-based Accenture.

Like many stakeholders in the insurance technology arena, the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) took advantage of its annual conference (the 2009 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum) this week in Orlando to bolster its influence in the industry with several announcements.

When I first set foot in the pastoral environs of the insurance industry some dozen years ago, the producers of the ACORD conference, later to become the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, had grand visions for the event.

Combining ACORD standards with enterprise cloud computing, Informatica Corp.an independent provider of data integration software and services, announced customer success with the Informatica Insurance Gateway for Salesforce CRM. The solution is designed to improve interactions between insurance carriers and their distribution networks by enabling the sharing of trusted real-time data via the Web.The solution builds upon the joint success Informatica and Salesforce.com have garnered with customers, as more than a dozen carriers including AAA, Florida Family, and Hagerty are already using Informatica to integrate back office systems to Salesforce CRM and Force.com solutions.

Service oriented architecture has many benefits, but all too often, many SOA efforts tend to languish and get mired in organizational politics and inertia. There are many reasons why this happens, but perhaps the main reason is that SOA proponents get trapped into thinking they have to take on and sell a massive, business-transforming project, with lots of planning and lots of committee meetings.

Zurich North America announced its entry into the Risk Retention Group (RRG) and Self Insurance Groups (SIG) markets. The announcement was made last week at the Arizona Captive Insurance Conference in Phoenix . Zurich ’s North America Commercial Alternative Solutions Group reports that it has been the market leader in the member-owned Group Captive field and is now taking that expertise to the owners and members of RRG, SIG and Pooling Groups.

As insurers seek ways to reduce labor costs while improving productivity and performance, many are struggling to find meaningful data and insights to support their human capital decisions. Although the business risks of making the wrong decisions are significant, there hasn’t been a source of global, industry-specific data, benchmarks and analytics to support such decisions.

Insurance and financial services provider American International Group, Inc. said on Sunday that it would accelerate steps to position American International Assurance Company, Ltd. or AIA Group, as a separate entity and seek a public listing for it on an Asian stock exchange.

EbixExchange – a division of Ebix, Inc. received three awards relating to insurance industry standards forum the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) yesterday at the ACORD conference, held at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort. The awards were presented to EbixExchange Director of Carrier Product Development, Sandy Hampel, in recognition of EbixExchange’s leadership in ACORD standards adoption.

Insurance Networking News (INN) and Celent released INN’s third annual technology solution provider ranking for the insurance industry today at a black-tie awards event held at the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in Orlando.

Group says federal oversight will undermine state-based consumer protection laws.

Eight million Americans now opt for self-directed plans according to new census.