Core systems

With growing uncertainty over Japan’s crisis, insurers’ stocks shaped by certain exposures.

Growth strategies, expense reduction and improving underwriting results top personal lines insurers’ priority lists, Novarica says.

The enhancements are intended to help underwriters and agents to better assess and price crime risk.

Apple plans to include NFC technology in future iPhone and iPad versions, but may disappoint insurers hoping for mobile pay capabilities in the present.

Insurers may want to keep an eye on the data centers, and cloud and other services providers affected by the temblor and tsunami.

Preemption experts say the reg reform law left preemption largely untouched despite ambiguous language that consumer advocates and others see as weakening it.

Reinsurers expected to sustain heavy losses in wake of Japanese tragedy.

A source says the reason may be "the lack of a clear standard across the industry" for mobile payments.

Three insurers representing PCI, NAMIC and the Big I testify before Congress calling for reformation of the National Flood Insurance Program.

Transactions increased by 35%, but insurers were generally “cautious in their plays,” notes new Conning study.

Documaker’s Internet-based policy production capabilities designed to streamline processing, facilitate new business.

Based on early calculations and modeling conducted by AIR Worldwide, insured property losses from the Mw9.1 earthquake that struck Japan on Friday will range between 1.2 trillion JPY to 2.8 trillion JPY. Using today’s exchange rate of 81.85 JPY to the dollar, this translates to a range of between 15 billion USD and 35 billion USD.

Industry responds as scope of disaster comes into focus.

It is still unclear what the aftereffects will be on the insurance market following the largest earthquake in 300 years in Japan.

U.S. P&C industry premiums grew at their fastest rate since 2006; Balboa and GEICO recorded best underwriting profits in 2010.

House Republicans sent a letter to regulators saying that businesses and consumers are "stymied" by a number of factors and urged them not to rush rulemaking.

State Farm, FM Global, Jackson National Life, QBE and others released their year-end numbers.

Last year, Assurant collected roughly $2.7 billion of premiums through its specialty insurance division, making force-placed insurance the company's most profitable segment.

Though currently not in heavy demand from consumers, life insurance mobile apps could turn into a necessity in the next two years.

A dependency on multiple document systems and on IT departments to maintain them stands in contrast to a growing customer need for electronic communications.