Data and information management

Personal health, life and P&C insurers face myriad claims challenges, and many are using technology to overcome them.

Carriers need to address a multitude of integration, licensing and security issues before leveraging cloud computing.

Cloud company gains a technology and market leader in social media monitoring.

Experts say insurance fraud has grown in the current recession, but insurers seem unwilling to fund anti-fraud measures

Oftentimes, the one-size-fits-all mentality doesn’t hold true for insurers trying to implement best practices learned from other companies.

Research and advisory firm Novarica has published a new series of Quick IT Benchmark reports for 12 different categories of U.S. insurers, based on more than 80 responses from our CIO Research Council members. The reports include information on total budgets/breakdowns, maintenance and new projects, IT staffing, breakfix and programming requests, enterprise applications, and a summary of key questions that were answered by respondents.

David Sokol resigns from Berkshire after questionable stock transactions revealed.

Master data management is insurers’ best recourse to unlock the siloed data often associated with multiple applications for each line of business.

Fraudsters follow companies in move toward electronic payment forms.

Of the nearly 2,000 deals totaling more than $200 billion in value, many involved players in the insurance technology space.

Since its founding in 1970, the Association for Cooperative Research and Development (ACORD), Pearl River, N.Y., has brought members of the insurance industry together to collaborate in the development of standards to improve data exchange and communication within and across organizations.

The more than $43 billion cost to the global insurance industry was an increase of more than 60% over the previous year, according to a Swiss Re sigma study.

While industry observers are still assessing the long-term financial impact of the events on Aflac, MetLife and The Hartford, disaster may have been averted on their balance sheets.

IFM 3.2 to score claims from independent testing facilities, provide enhanced summary reports.

New process designed to allow P&C insurers to offload bureau, state reporting in less than 30 days.

Report says an increasing number of insurers are outsourcing management of their general account investments to third party investment managers.

Interactive technology to help advisers leverage freedom to invest without asset allocation restrictions.

Allianz report highlights catastrophe-prone regions, climate change and the importance of preparedness.

Insurance association questions need for proposed solvency assessment tool as NAIC meets in Texas.

Phillip Grove, Business Applications Manager and CTO, Pacific Compensation Insurance Co., discusses his company's award-winning enterprise integration project using an SaaS model.