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The market has been driven to a place where insurance-linked securitizations work from a pricing perspective, say experts at a recent S&P conference.

The scholarships were awarded in four categories: Certified Insurance Counselors, Certified Insurance Service Representatives, Certified Risk Managers and Certified School Risk Managers.

Allianz Life, Aviva USA and New York Life are the top three contributors to the increase.

Investment accounting providers see 445-percent growth in insurance clients; CEO credits SaaS approach.

Prices for all standard commercial insurance lines rose for the fifth consecutive quarter, with commercial lines increasing 5 percent in aggregate, according Towers Watson’s “Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey” (CLIPS), which compared the Q1 2012 prices of policies with those of the same period last year.

With a median salary of $49,700 to $51,000, these professionals are in demand by financial services organizations—including insurance—according to finance and accounting staffing firm.

Penalty settles allegations AIG wrongfully tried to avoid paying state residual market assessments and taxes.

Comparatively light catastrophe activity since the beginning of 2012 has strengthened balance sheets for reinsurers, increased already plentiful capacity and moderated pricing trends, according to a briefing from Guy Carpenter, a provider of risk and reinsurance intermediary services.

MiAgents iPad application is designed to enable OMI's agents to spend more time in the field gathering intelligence, which is then analyzed through the app for actionable intelligence.

The year-end figure is comprised of redundancies in personal lines, commercial property and commercial liability, offset by deficiencies in workers' compensation and financial guaranty.

Exigen Insurance Solutions, a provider of core solutions, introduced at this week’s IASA conference an International Business Insurance product designed to give insurers operating in global markets greater product flexibility and agility.

Industry-wide first quarter annuity sales reached $53.1 billion, which is down about 2.5 percent from $54.5 billion the previous quarter, according to the Insured Retirement Institute.

A new report from Novarica anticipates a widening analytics gap between large and mid-sized insurers.

The MarketScout report for May outlines upward adjustments for both personal and commercial lines.

A dynamic atmosphere prevailed at an IASA technology session as insurers debated the challenges and possibilities of innovation.

Students from St. John's University, University of Wisconsin, University of Central Arkansas, East Carolina University and five other schools were named recipients of the 3rd annual program.

CloudProtect designed to reimburse losses due to the failures of cloud service providers.

Illustration Integrator is designed to provide Southern Farm Bureau’s agents illustrations with iGO e-App to deliver a unified selling experience, according to iPipeline. Agents will leverage their existing e-signature solution, in a combined signing process, for the illustration and e-application along with e-submission.

Continued slow economic growth places a new priority on servicing distribution channels and improving service to agents, according to a new report.

Allstate, Esurance, GEICO and Travelers perform well in J.D. Power insurance website shopper satisfaction study.