Data and information management

Overreactions to climate change may endanger the beef supply.

In a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, vendor Enclarity said that without appropriate data management, the accuracy, efficacy and overall usefulness of EHRs can be called into question.

The portal, from eHealth Inc., will enable brokers and agents in Arkansas and Missouri to prepare quotes and submit applications for coverage.

A majority of corporate executives report the need to overhaul their risk management approach, an Accenture study finds, and their starting point should be in integration of risk management and performance management processes.

Upp Technology will provide BCBS members "competitive pricing," rapid response times and access to more than 25,000 IT pros.

Are we really heading toward a day when we’ll all be zipping around in airborne automobiles? Probably not.

The Retail Agent—E&S Market Initiative has released new guidance for managing general agents and wholesale brokers in a report titled, “Roadmap to Effective General Agent (GA) Web sites.”

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said last week that financial institutions should be forced to buy capital insurance, or issue debt that could be converted into equity in a crisis.

A report from Datamonitor suggests the economic downturn presents an opportune time for insurers to invest in green IT.

The storm clouds that tend to visit America’s Atlantic and Gulf coasts each autumn may have a silver lining for reinsurers based in Bermuda. A new report from New York-based Deloitte, which features analysis from Standards and Poor's reinsurance director Laline Carvalho, says a variety of factors have quelled reinsurers' appetite for risk, which will result in higher prices for reinsurance.

The developer of what may well be the world’s first mass-produced “flying car” is discussing a range of options with underwriters from several companies in an attempt to come up with an affordable insurance policy for this hybrid vehicle/aircraft.

Richmond, Va.-based Genworth Financial says its U.S. mortgage insurance business was seeing positive results from the Obama Administration's Home Affordability Refinance Program (HARP).

Aon Benfield’s July Reinsurance Market Update report shows catastrophe-exposed programs outside of the United States remained firm.

The new head of the AIA, Leigh Ann Pusey, weighs in on a bevy of legislative issues pertinent to the insurance industry.

Insurers are finding new parts of the enterprise suitable for business analytics.

If insurers succeed in excising all elements of risk from within their own walls, they may in turn run the risk of stifling learning and creativity.

Arch Re is employing a Web-based system to ease the manual burden of the insurers with which it works.

A report from ISO and PCI says the decline stems from a combination of underwriting losses and a deterioration in investment results.

Watson Wyatt CEO John Haley and Towers Perrin CEO Mark Mactas will head up the combined company, Towers Watson & Co.

With China's new insurance laws set to take effect later this year, many insurers may need to upgrade their claims systems to keep pace.