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“We were the most disrespected brand name on the planet and now we have come back,” says Chairman Steve Miller.

Our critical next step is to enlarge and enrich the conversation and broaden it to encompass business impacts, leadership issues and succession planning for the insurance sector to ensure the future leadership and impact of this aging industry.

New business unit consolidates recently acquired Extend Health, Liazon and others to help employers deliver health benefits to employees, company says.

Strategy Meets Action Founder Deb Smallwood discusses the current landscape of mobile technologies, opportunities and challenges that come with it and action items for insurers.Throughout January, Smallwood details each of SMAs five next-generation technologies — analytics and big data, mobile technologies, collaboration technologies, cloud computing and telematics.To find out how the research and consulting firm came to these five, click here. Watch next-gen technology No. 1: Analytics and Big DataCheck back next week for next-gen technology No. 3: Collaboration.

Uncertainty over the enrollees in individual products through the exchanges and the unclear impact of the industry assessment tax are key factors in the change.

Two people with knowledge of the matter say any decision could be months away.

Consumers will be exposed to new forms of access technologies and integrated service offerings, while enterprises will increasingly virtualize communications and computing operations, the firm says.

U.S. organizations think one-quarter of their data is inaccurate, which negatively impacts business intelligence, marketing and customer engagement efforts.

Shifting mobile strategies and two other trends will change the industry in 2014 and beyond, according to an Aite Group report.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not believe CGI Federal, its former Healthcare.gov contractor, could complete its work on the site in time, and thus selected Accenture as the new contractor with a no-bid $90 million-plus contract, according to documents.

Insurer is looking at new distribution deals, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil.

Women-led life insurer awards $106K to 72 recipients in an effort to change their lives and transform their communities.

Barbara Koster currently serves as senior VP, CIO for Prudential.

Insurers are shifting their outsourcing dollars to adding new capabilities and infrastructure, and away from application development and maintenance.

The investment bank, which specializes in the financial services sector, finds varying results for the life and P&C sectors.

LOGiQ³ Receives Letters of Intent From Four Carriers

CEO says there’s less business going into the reinsurance market, and there’s more appetite from both traditional players and newcomers.

‘Millennial Meterologists’ to highlight how Big Data is transformed into actionable solutions.

Obamacare has always depended, both operationally and politically, on an alliance between the administration and insurance companies. But that alliance is vulnerable.

Net income rose to $988 million, or $2.70 a share, from $304 million, or 78 cents, a year earlier.