Data and information management

Juergen Heck will be called upon to foster understanding, and accelerate implementation of international standards to improve data flow across the industry.

CIGNA has agreed to join Aetna, UnitedHealth in the establishment of an independent database that will determine reimbursement rates.

Several insurers and brokers team to make aggregated loss data available to the European marketplace.

Outsourcing professionals’ organization releases lists of leading outsourcing companies and advisors.

PHT will have access to security standards, be able to provide feedback on the standards and become part of the 500-organization community.

Study suggests insurers establish an efficient risk-based compliance culture throughout their enterprise, or risk the consequences.

The impending amendments offer adaptable insurers strategic advantages from the resulting structure, says a Conning Research study.

Seeking to address systemic risk, reps say they will soon introduce legislation to create national insurance regulator.

Report says investments in automation and Web services are key to improving profitability.

Despite the predicted IT spending crunch, new options abound for insurers looking to upgrade their risk management software applications.

The partnership will give National Unit access to a special investigations unit with a national scope.

The insurer of 125 Catholic dioceses will use the vendor’s STG Billing and Accounts Receivable system.

A transitional, if not transformational, environment is afoot for the U.S. P&C industry in 2009, says Ernst & Young, but before carriers take steps forward, concerns must be dispatched.

While the cat bond market proved its resilience as the market absorbed the impact of concurrent financial and property catastrophes, notes a Guy Carpenter briefing, disciplined risk is called for in 2009.

Nationwide's structure for finance process and policy

IDC reports Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fits tactical needs of businesses; sales now projected to increase due to the economic slump.

As data and compliance needs change, carriers are looking to automate one of the last bastions of manual processing.

More than just a technology, enterprise content management is a business strategy to successfully drive insurers into the future.

Health insurers are finding ways to create operational and customer value from the technologies used for security and integrity of data.

Catastrophe and investment losses take a big toll on the balance sheet.