Data and information management

How the big changes of 2013 are affecting insurers' technology strategies for 2014.

Guy Carpenter Launches Version 3.0 of its Risk-Modeling Tool

How technology innovations allow brokers and carriers to do business more easily and effectively.

Allstate Financial's VP and CIO Mary Springberg, a 2012 WIL winner, discusses the challenges resulting from the sale of a major corporate entity and the importance of employee engagement. 

A team of agency staff, software contractors and insurers is working on fixing the enrollment reports, known in the industry as 834 forms, said tCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokeswoman.

The chief obstacle for health insurers is essentially a lack of insight into who’s enrolling in their HIX plans, says an independent merchant bank focused on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring and principal investing services in the health care industry.

The lack of hurricanes in the Atlantic will result in a low double-digit decline in pricing for 2014 renewals, Fitch said.

The website’s software initially prevented Social Security numbers from being included in data sent to insurers, blocking complete enrollments in health plans. A fix announced yesterday will end 80 percent of those errors.

Many organizations must face a troubling fact: Defending their digital perimeter is not enough. They should assume that successful cyberattacks will occur—and develop an effective plan to mitigate the impact.

Drivers in emerging markets are twice as likely to buy a car based on in-vehicle technology options than vehicle performance, according to Accenture report.

Company is offering free credit-monitoring service for one year to provide protection after Social Security Numbers were printed on postcards.

Coming to an insurance business near you: predictive analytics.

Parts of the Obamacare enrollment system used to pay insurers are being pushed back from January in the latest technology delay for the president’s U.S. health care overhaul.

Zurich CEO predicts a "big impactful cyber event that will occur over the next couple of decades" and says designing policies for attacks that could shut down power systems or stop a city’s transportation network is more than challenging.

Swiss Re Selects Wolters Kluwer Financial Services

The importance, role and functionality of data centers will change over the next five years, leaving many organizations uncertain about how to plan their future data center architectures, according to Gartner.

Breakdowns in financial controls can be disastrous for insurers.

It’s time for insurers of all types to hop on the big data bandwagon or risk getting left behind.

Insurers' 4 Most Promising Tech Initiatives

Partnership designed to offer Willis Re clients analytical capabilities to enable better management of flood accumulations.