Compliance

Life insurers need to redouble efforts to parlay Web searches into meetings with agents.

Companies, associations and individuals now have until June 12, 2009, to nominate a woman in the insurance industry who is a true leader, progressing to greater and more diverse positions of influence and authority, and carving a path of excellence for others to follow.

The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation is looking to consolidate the regulatory structure by increasing the Fed's authority, and increase oversight of credit default swaps.

Expert says Congress should proceed with caution when revamping regulation of insurance industry.

A House bill looks to supplant the current state-based system of non-resident licensing with a national one.

The legislation aims to establish a federal insurance office.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In a letter to Congressional leaders, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made it clear that the government is serious about revamping the nation’s financial regulatory system.

Letter may shift long-running debate about flood insurance program.

Loss of deductions would be harmful, industry says.

The Washington Legal Foundation says a set of rules adopted by the NAIC that requires insurers to disclose information related to climate change serves mainly to promote the ideological objectives of global warming activists.

Employer webinar series designed to provide information on rapidly changing and complex compliance regulations.

America's Health Insurance Plans is one of five organizations supporting a cut in the annual health care spending growth rate.