Core systems

Opportunities await insurers willing to ramp up innovative products, distribution channels to compete in under-developed markets.

States awarded the funds include Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

Duck Creek policy admin and billing software to be implemented using Accenture's product configuration software application.

Insurers using new enterprise social marketing platform to standardize the compliance efforts of its employees, representatives using social networking sites.

Product Accelerator configuration software to build content repository for Jackson’s product-related information.

State legislators are looking to smartphone-enabled electronic insurance IDs to save drivers, law officials’ time and money.

For the first time, referrals to National Insurance Crime Bureau break 100,000.

Nearly 58 percent of adults using social media setting stronger privacy controls, according to Pew Research.

New study finds that majority of middle-income Americans admit to knowing little about the Medicare program.

MajescoMastek tapped to provide the billing component for the insurer's core systems legacy replacement and modernization initiative.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, has birthed a new company, Horizon Healthcare Innovations (HHI), which is dedicated to fomenting a paradigm shift that results in a health care system that delivers better care at dramatically lower costs.

Where Consumers Seek Out Retirement Information

The target of growing dissatisfaction among some agents, property/casualty insurer sees development of its agency force as an ongoing imperative.

Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft and Research In Motion will now provide app developers with Web links or otherwise inserted text that discloses the personal data policy for the app prior to download.

Claims management solution to support specialty insurer’s goal of increasing efficiency, reducing costs.

A federal judge grants class-action status to plaintiffs in a suit that accuses Wells Fargo and QBE Insurance of inflating the cost of force-placed hazard insurance coverage by secretly paying themselves unearned commissions.

During a session at HIMSS12, Kaiser Permanente SVP and CIO Phil Fasano said that with $4 billion spent thus far on the project, the gravity of the undertaking is evident.

The presence of the U.S. conglomerate in the Thai market was confirmed by several sources in the insurance industry, including one who said Berkshire began doing business in the country in late December.

According to a new research report, carriers are willing to invest in some of the underwriting technologies and processes necessary to meet financial performance goals.

Speaking at the HIMSS12 Conference in Las Vegas, Aetna CEO, Chairman and President Mark Bertolini, said a reckoning for the traditional health insurance model is at hand.