Digital distribution

Esurance has selected Modus as its telematics vendor for the DriveSense program, which is deployed across the United States. Modus is providing its full-service UBI solution including logistics, integration, application development, data warehousing and support services.

In the second quarter, fixed annuities experienced highest quarterly sales since 2011, according to data from Morningstar and Beacon Research.

Companies will continue to work together and plan to make the defined contribution health insurance platform MyBenefits available to large businesses in a wider geographic area.

The life and annuity offering is designed to enable product deployment without the need for development.

A profile of some financial services companies that are using social networks to create new collaboration patterns with their customers, distributors and employees

To maintain a positive relationship, here's what should be accomplished when field reps visit the offices of agents.

The P&C, health and life sectors face different challenges when it comes to mobile. But all three have a way to go in providing what's needed to keep up with market demand.

Only 10 percent of top marketing and IT executives believe collaboration between their corporate functions is sufficient, according to a new survey.

In an effort to integrate with the Federally Facilitated Marketplace, insurer selects Benefitfocus to build a private insurance exchange for both group and individual market segments.

Industry-wide second-quarter results indicate a recovery, as every product line shows increased sales compared to the anomalous first-quarter results, according to LIMRA.

CEOs and other senior executives are increasingly engaged as their companies step up efforts to build digital enterprises.

Aetna has dropped plans to offer health policies through the insurance exchanges in Ohio and its home state of Connecticut, the company revealed last week.

New capabilities to increase customer service, productivity for agencies, brokerages.

Owners of captive insurance companies tightened margins and used capital more efficiently in 2012, according to a new A.M. Best financials report on the industry. Over the longer term, the five-year combined ratio for the captive composite of 92.3 compares extremely favorably with the commercial casualty composite of 103.3.

Adoption numbers are up from 18 months ago, and users are reporting up to an hour and a half saved per day, according to a recent survey.

Celent reports that interest in mobile apps, especially those for tablets, is fueled by the desire to lower front-office costs and facilitate customer interactions.

Over the course of three years, Aegis Insurance, a midsize mutual specialty commercial insurer, completed an overhaul of its legacy core systems. The result is a 50-percent reduction in the average time it takes to process a transaction, a 70-percent improvement in quoting and an 80-percent improvement in renewal processing.

While vendors are optimistic about revenue growth over the next few years, a new report from Aite Group urges them to do a better job of aligning with P&C carrier needs.

Calling an insurance agent or broker is one of the least attractive options for getting information about health insurance plans, according to new survey results from Forrester.

Celent warns of a dramatic shift in the technology that group-enrollment insurers use to gain consumers’ attention and interact with them.