Data and information management

The insurer announced that it's letting Florida policyholders sign up for a program that tracks their driving habits and adjusts their rates accordingly.

Global financial institutions need to get up to speed with appropriate technologies and procedures to protect their organizations from a rising tide of payments fraud, says fraud and detection expert Dena Hamilton.

Policy admin, agent portals and business intelligence (BI) top insurers’ priority lists for 2011, all with a goal of improving business agility, insights and service quality, according Novarica’s 2nd annual “state of the industry” report.

Insurer says JP Morgan knowingly sold risky mortgage-backed securities.

Web-based service VTXcompare created to mitigate risks inherent to changes in data.

U.S. insurers can't ignore E.U. actions in an era of harmonizing global regulations.

Read daily recaps of how Watson is faring against Jeopardy!'s two greatest champions.

No going back from a wireless world; research says 2011 is tipping point of consumer devices in the enterprise.

Fitch and S&P react to AIG’s $4.1B charge for Q4; S&P clarifies Allstate’s rating after announcement that it's exiting the banking business; A.M. Best, Moody’s and S&P assign ratings to CNA’s forthcoming senior unsecured notes.

Computer’s appearance on “Jeopardy!” offers glimpse of future business functionality.

Insurance professionals who want to stop the unauthorized flow of data to criminal sources should start by looking within their own enterprises.

As any good insurance exec knows, a company is only as good as its last customer service call. IBM knows this too—that's part of why it’s still here.

Just in time for Valentine’s Days, a study finds 29% of American drivers have engaged in romantic contact while driving.

To navigate through the changing market, insurers will think, act and spend differently in 2011.

Pacts forged with MarketSpace and Kinetic Analysis.

The U.S. property and casualty market appears to be experiencing a scene from the movie “Groundhog Day,” operating in a market where little has changed from a year ago, notes A. M. Best in its 2011 Review & Preview report for the insurance industry. How P&C carriers may respond, however, reflects a market where change will be mandatory.

MedRisk's new RIBI unit is set to roll out a new reporting platform featuring state-of-the-art graphics and outcomes analytics.

Allstate, Aon, CNA, Humana all released their year-end numbers.

Collaboration to create solutions to help insurers improve claims handling with efficiency, accuracy.

The rise of ubiquitous and mobile computing is creating a range of new innovations, limited only by imaginations.