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Survey attempts to resolve lagging registration by state insurance regulators.

Despite this year’s challenges, insurance companies will see opportunities in 2010, predicts LIMRA’s CEO.

NAU Country Insurance Co., PEMCO Mutual Insurance Co. and TRISTAR Risk Management are the latest insurers to select the enterprise content management (ECM) software suite.

Workers’ comp insurer to use Valen Technologies’ AuditRight predictive analytics solution to ensure premium to exposure accuracy.

FINRA's chair Tuesday called for the creation of a single repository of data on all trades on all markets so that the financial industry could be "surveilled by a unified single regulator."

Deep Customer Connections’ industry benchmark of carriers’ performance ranks their “ease of doing business.”

The revised bill, introduced late Tuesday, would give the Federal Reserve Board power to oversee systemically important companies, and beef up a proposed interagency council to advise the central bank.

Senator says he won’t provide 60th vote needed to bring legislation to floor.

S&P changes HUB’s outlook to negative, while A.M. Best affirms American Physicians Insurance Co.’s financial strength and issuer credit ratings.

Data quality and master data management, according to Forrester research, will become critical enablers to support real-time operational and decision-making processes.

Analyst and consulting firm SMA publishes reports that paint a rosy picture of insurers’ IT spend in the coming year.

Carriers have increasingly heard that ease-of-doing-business and technology are the deciding factors for agents when selecting insurers with which to work, but new research shows that unless carriers have a solid product at a competitive price, all the talk is meaningless.

Insurers watch as the bill to create a consumer protection agency, as approved last week, gave almost all authority directly to the agency's director.

OakBridge Insurance Services announces new offices in California and Minnesota, as well as two new hires.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office tells federal agencies what property/casualty insurers and reinsurers have been warning for months: Prepare for climate change effects.

The Hartford and the Connecticut Attorney General reach a settlement stemming from ongoing litigation against Guy Carpenter for orchestrating a series of alleged conspiracies with dozens of reinsurers that illegally inflated costs for insurers and consumers.

White House says it stands by health care reform legislation drafted by Senate Majority Leader Reid.

In a busy 2009, AIR Worldwide has modeled the risk profile for eight securities in North America and Europe, providing cover for such perils as tropical cyclones, earthquakes, extra-tropical cyclones, severe thunderstorms and wildfires.

State insurance office publishes pay-as-you-drive policies for insurers.

Firms says cloud computing and advanced analytics will be top investment priorities in 2010.