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Expert doubts annuity sales to be stellar in 2010 with unemployment to remain high.

A new study charts the progress of carriers in ease of doing business.

ISCS SurePower Innovation Policy Admin Suite is a Web- and SOA-based program designed to automate underwriting and manage claims.

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Pharmacists Mutual Selects Interactive Communications Suite

Conducting business in what is often termed the nation's epicenter for organized auto insurance fraudsters--namely, those who deliberately crash vehicles and falsely report injuries from auto accidents--is a challenge. For Florida-based Direct General Insurance Co., that challenge may have temporarily lessened somewhat, thanks to a recent eight-month investigation and resultant dismantling of an organized "crash ring."

With the fresh spring breeze may come a breath of fresh air forThe Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., which this week reported a first-quarter profit and improved investment results. This is particularly good news for the insurer, which earlier this month repaid $3.4 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Funds.

Chubb seeks to facilitate discussion on emerging class of risks.

How the top six bank life programs make it work.

NAIFA adopts policy opposing stranger-originated annuities.

As the number of claims mount, insurers are in a scramble to manage risk management issues surrounding property/casualty coverage of faulty Chinese drywall. Yesterday, Louisiana became the first state to openly challenge insurers, passing a bill stopping insurers from increasing premiums or canceling homeowners and commercial property coverage because of such claims.

The Qatar-based reinsurer signed a three-year contract with RMS to manage earthquake risk in Asia.

XML-based Thunderhead NOW is designed to simplify the process of making changes to data, eliminating the need for IT involvement.

Despite failure to reach a bipartisan deal, Republicans and Democrats unanimously agreed to allow the debate to move forward on the Senate floor.

But the logjam may allow a full debate to proceed.

Although efforts are underway to harmonize certain areas of insurance regulation, such as solvency margins and the regulation of control and management, until there is overall harmonization of international insurance laws, sellers, producers and buyers of multinational programs face certain challenges. So says Suresh Krishnan, general counsel, Multinational Client Group at the ACE Group of insurance and reinsurance companies, in a new report. The challenges, says Krishnan, involve making sure companies are not inadvertently assuming risks under local insurance and tax laws in the various jurisdictions implicated by their programs.

Gartner analysts predict that 95% of organizations will support a blended approach to enterprise architecture by 2015.

AIG is continuing to repay its debt to the federal government, but much of the progress reflects the numerous exchanges of debt that AIG owed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Revolving Credit Facility.

The National Flood Insurance program, which has limped along on a series of temporary extensions, may be due for a more substantial resolution.

Online tool enables single, uniform reporting to multiple entities.