Core systems

As life expectancy continues to grow, consumers are seeking out guaranteed retirement income to help mitigate longevity risk.

The EveryMove 100 Health Insurance Index is intended to help consumers differentiate between health insurers based on more than just price and government-mandated minimum features.

Industry organizations assert their support for the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Summer National Meeting.

Insurers that want to remain competitive and profitable must make the commitment to becoming truly customer-centric, according to a recent study, and there are initial factors to consider.

InsureRight platform features designed to provide underwriters, managers and executives with access to pricing and risk analysis.

Reinsurance capacity depresses prices and earnings; brokers report $45 billion in additional capacity, A.M. Best said.

Despite lower satisfaction with more complex Superstorm Sandy claims continuing to be reported, overall satisfaction remains stable, according to J.D. Power.

Only 10 percent of top marketing and IT executives believe collaboration between their corporate functions is sufficient, according to a new survey.

A new report from Strategy Meets Action outlines current challenges and opportunities that should be top-of-mind for technologists and software providers.

Severe storms and tornadoes in the United States pale by comparison to the $18 billion in economic losses resulting from June floods in Germany.

Severe storms and tornadoes in the United States pale by comparison to the $18 billion in economic losses resulting from June floods in Germany.

Online form collects the data of a potential consumer, which is routed to a home office interviewer to complete the process.

While consumers are finding UBI programs easier to use, nearly half of are uncomfortable with sharing driving data, according to a LexisNexis survey.

Great American, PURE and two others take home awards for best practices in insurance industry IT initiatives and strategy.

Compared to 2012, however, four fewer insurers were included in Temkin’s top 100.

In an effort to integrate with the Federally Facilitated Marketplace, insurer selects Benefitfocus to build a private insurance exchange for both group and individual market segments.

As part of a larger strategy to modernize operational systems, the insurer migrates commercial auto and liability to Instec’s Quicksolver, which is now in production and running on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform.

Larger insurers are more likely to use price optimization to increase profitability, and half use segmented demand models; most smaller insurers assume rate changes won’t impact customer demand.

LifeSuite designed to enable the automation of straight-through underwriting processing with a Web-based system.

Industry-wide second-quarter results indicate a recovery, as every product line shows increased sales compared to the anomalous first-quarter results, according to LIMRA.