Core systems

Ensuring a high renewal rate is seen as top priority in preparing for the long-sought hardened market.

The United Educators Insurance president and CEO receives the award for her commitment to education and support of the missions of The Griffith Foundation and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.

Moratorium established ahead of second storm expected to hit New York on Wednesday.

U.S. adds 6,600 IT jobs; August report revised with better numbers as well.

AIG, Berkshire Hathaway and 6 others released their third-quarter results.

Varied estimates shouldn’t pose much of a threat to reinsurers who have enjoyed a relatively catastrophe-free 2012 thus far.

Young drivers see particularly sharp cuts as prices take the biggest hit in more than 5 years.

The property/casualty industry has historically been regulated at the state level, but insurers have a lot on the line in the Presidential election next week.

Research from Aberdeen Group is starting to indicate exceptional growth trends among early big data adopters.

ClaimCenter designed to support The Guarantee Company’s goal of increasing effectiveness, efficiency of claims management operations.

Analysts rank “pricing strategy” and “quality of service” as the industry’s top value drivers over the next three years, named by 95 percent and 94 percent of the respondents, respectively, ahead of “data analysis capabilities” (86 percent).

CEO Liam McGee is working to free up capital and reduce risk as stock market volatility remains a threat.

The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) released new research indicating that during the past year, nearly 30 percent of baby boomers stopped contributing to a retirement plan, and 16 percent prematurely withdrew funds from a retirement plan. The recession and slow recovery are pointed to as the primary barrier preventing baby boomers from adequately saving for retirement.

The governors of the three states hit hardest by Sandy have declared that homeowners in their states will not have to pay hurricane deductibles on insurance claims stemming from damage caused by the storm.

The clock is ticking, and insured losses are rising, as crews take to the most heavily hit regions to assess infrastructure damage and reconnect power to millions.

Attendees were immediately challenged at LIMRA's annual conference with a question: Is the industry headed toward the abyss?

Funding for IT projects to help insurers become more customer-centric is largely unavailable.

AIR Worldwide, catastrophe modeling firm, estimates that insured losses from Sandy to onshore U.S. properties will be between $7 billion and $15 billion.

Software to boost multichannel marketing and spur customer segmentation.

It’s no surprise that insurers are using social media to help define, build and integrate their brands against the myriad platforms available to them, and some are clearly farther along the path than others. This was made evident yesterday at LIMRA’s 2012 annual conference in Chicago, where MassMutual shared with attendees nuances of its sophisticated and successful social media plan.