Core systems

The insurance industry’s list of cars and trucks that do the best job of keeping owners alive in a crash jumped 82 percent this year against a backdrop of U.S. recalls of older models that were killing their passengers.

Claims solutions from Accenture and Guidewireare deemed best in class for technology, functionality and customer service.

By leveraging a managed SaaS solution, the global insurer gains greater flexibility across both its internal and customer-facing processes.

J.D. Power and RIMS report that large business commercial insurance customers are most satisfied when insurers and brokers deliver on customer service, price and claims.

The near failure in 2008 of American International Group Inc., which required a $182.3 billion bailout, highlighted the risks of insurers.

Minority of consumers and administrators think the system is on the right track.

Insurance Technologies’ ForeSight and FireLight streamline the end-to-end sales process in the office or in the field.

New technology from Vlocity enables Silicon Valley broker to quickly connect a Salesforce front-end to its Vertafore back-end.

The insurer expanded this year to more than $900 billion in assets, passing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to become the fifth- largest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index on that basis.

Efforts to reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act for six years fell apart after Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who is retiring, held up the legislation.

A new report from technology research and advisory firm Ovum identifies the five key trends, from ongoing differences between employers and employees to increased demand among SMEs for mobility.

Insurity’s integrated policy, billing, claims, reinsurance and enterprise data platform was selected as part of Caterpillar’s core-systems modernization initiative.

P&C Insurer is replacing multiple legacy systems to gain business agility while easing IT burdens.

The Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism warns that if the insurance-industry protection program isn't re-upped, places and events that look enticing to terrorists won't be able to get the insurance they need.

Insurers create special-purpose entities in states with less-restrictive rules and shift customer policies into those units.

House unanimously passed the bill; insurers had lobbied for the change to the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-regulation overhaul.

The software solutions are intended to help the P&C insurer boost customer service and time to market by streamlining underwriting, policy admin, claims and business intelligence.

Mobility, agility and the Internet of Things are driving enterprises to invest in more efficient and agile approaches to integration, according to research and consulting firm Ovum.

Senate approval would move the measure to President Barack Obama for final approval.

89 percent of executive surveyed by General Electric and Accenture said that companies that do not adopt a big data analytics strategy in the next year risk losing market share and momentum.