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The company says the unique transaction-based financial model provides participating plans with a more direct and cost-effective route to consumers than individual brokers.

New study urges regulators to consider carriers’ financial health as dissimilar to banks when it comes to global system risk regulation.

Insurers to be assisted with regulatory filings on securities-lending programs.

NHTSA Chief: Do Away with Distracting Tech

Rule to Tighten EDI Standards in Final Stages

ING Expanding Fiduciary Service Offering

Organizations need to defend their data assets against internal threats, not only disaffected workers but also trusted administrators who hold the keys.

Paper notes exchanges as “active purchasers;” offers support to states.

As FEMA’s Direct Servicing Agent, the property/casualty software and services provider will expand services to insurance agents, policyholders, lenders and other stakeholders.

Health insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may pose a threat to COBRA.

As rule makers finalize the Dodd-Frank Act behind closed doors, insurers fear they will suffer collateral damage.

Insurance business process outsourcing market blossoms; driving costs out of the claims process.

The recently released white paper from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on the role of producers in state exchanges, while helpful, leaves many crucial questions unanswered.

Witnesses tell House committee that cross-state sales would reduce the number of uninsured.

The annual insurance technology conference saw shifting trends, but issues from the past remain a challenge.

National Association of Insurance Commissioners affirms the need for producers in state health insurance exchanges, and the appropriateness of compensating them in several ways for their services.

Last week, HHS issued proposed regs requiring health insurers seeking to increase their premium rates by 10% or more will have to notify the state and government.

Starting in September, insurers will have to publicly post proposed rate increases for the small group and individual markets.

On day two of the INN Newscast covering the 2011 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, Shane McCullough, ACORD’s chief enterprise architect in charge of ACORD’s Framework initiative, shares how standards users can benefit from the Framework’s latest advancements.The INN Newscast team also takes a peek inside a couple of sessions that take a realistic look at the upside—and the downside—of emerging technologies.Finally, insurance carrier attendees identify their top technology initiatives for 2011.

Program to provide excess, umbrella forms for agricultural liability exposures.