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Stable-value products are in demand among retirement-focused workers, according to New York Life's data.

A new report from Novarica outlines significant internal and external costs behind the average P&C PAS project, but the speed-to-market improvements may be worth it.

Banking industry exec discusses the issue’s force-placed furor, the industry's response and possible areas of compromise.

Indonesian earthquake latest reminder to insurers of property catastrophe exposure.

“Insurers on the West Coast are keeping headcounts low, and many are preparing a set off layoffs in the next month,” Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis told Insurance Networking News. “The IT job markets in Chicago and Boston are doing reasonably well and Dallas is picking up, but overall it’s not where it used to be four years ago.”

Insurance group aims to mitigate regulatory risks across specialty P&C, annuity and supplemental health insurance businesses.

Convenience, life triggers shape buying habits, reports LIMRA.

As insurers attempt to recoup losses from a costly 2011, global property insurance rates rise in the first quarter of 2012, Marsh reports.

Asia, including China and India, is spearheading the trend, covering roughly 80 percent of this emerging market.

There was this tremendous downturn in the stock market in 2008, and here we are four years later but confidence has not been restored. There’s lots of opportunity for insurers to solve the things that seniors are worried about.

Bailed-out insurer upgraded based on the likelihood of regaining independence from the U.S. government.

Research finds splintered group of younger Millennials exhibiting different values on several subjects, including a strong sense of entitlement.

A Gartner survey of IT leaders in North America reported that 81 percent felt that customer retention is extremely important to them with customer acquisition ranking number five out of 10 and expanding relationships with existing customers rating number six out of 10.

“The Customer, Google and UK Car Insurance: Lessons from Evolving Customer Search Behavior” reveals that price comparison tools increase the premium across all insurers. “They make the insurance product about price rather than best fit for the client’s needs,” said report co-author and Celent Analyst Craig Beattie.

To remain relevant in an era of flat budgets and growing business demands, Ken McGee's second-day keynote at Gartners’s Business Intelligence Summit in Los Angeles called for a “CIO manifesto” in order for chief information officers to match the quality of business-initiated projects to the work of IT.

John Paulson enters reinsurance game provided with $500 million of start-up capitalization.

Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety agrees with Presidential Policy Directive designed to facilitate an integrated, national effort to mitigate risks.

Specialty insurer to automate legal expense management operations over the course of the three-year contract.

The fifth annual index found that 24 percent of respondents tried to resolve their property/casualty insurance issues online before calling their insurers directly compared to 21 percent for health insurance.

Company will pay out a total of $10.6 million to four states for unlicensed activities.