Digital distribution

Motivated by health care reform and the advent of exchanges, the mutual life insurer will offer dental, vision, life, disability and accident products on the Bright Choices Exchange.

Social media and mobile computing serve as a backdrop for several of Deloitte’s insurance tech trends and opportunities for 2013.

Insurer looks to ForgeRock’s architecture to provide the power, economics and agility required to establish secure access controls for mission-critical applications at scale across any population.

To expand its product offerings, distribution and geographic presence, Nevada General Insurance, a midsize P&C insurer, replaced its Web portal for policy quoting, issuance and endorsements with a packaged solution and integrated it with the policy administration system, enabling agent and direct-to-consumer sales.

Aetna, Empire BlueCross BlueShield and 15 other insurers set to participate in New York’s Health Benefits Exchange.

Insurer looks for improved time-to-market capabilities with new policy rating platform.

Clients and brokers are being provided with access to ACE's platform for electronic delivery of policies.

Erie Family Life Insurance set out to streamline the life insurance sales process and make it more intuitive to the independent agents who are used to selling the parent company’s personal lines P&C products.

Scott Schuetz brings senior-level experience from Aviva Life & Annuity, Wells Fargo and Citigroup.

Despite catastrophe losses of $20 billion in the first half of this year, reinsurance market rates on line (ROLs) continue to be driven by an influx of capital from third-party investors at the July 1 renewals, according to a report from Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC, a global risk and reinsurance specialist.

Ebix Latin America says its agreement enables a large number of Brazilian brokers to concentrate on selling insurance while outsourcing their IT needs to an exchange hub.

Or, do carriers' attempts to humanize themselves on social networks strain relations?

Increasingly sophisticated user expectations drive tech market, Celent says, as insurers look for ways to differentiate commoditized products.

Agent and consumer portals, business intelligence and core systems revamps are top priorities, as personal lines insurers concentrate on growth, expense reduction and improving underwriting results, Novarica says.

Where once underwriters called the tune, it is now the distributors who have leverage and are setting the ground rules.

MyFirstAm designed to provide users with access to title order status and the ability to place customer service requests.

Since the option to buy commercial insurance materialized online, the segment has become more open to the new channel as it prioritizes price and convenience, according to Novarica research.

Product is designed to enable consumers to complete the entire enrollment and eligibility process via the health insurer’s site.

PURE, a personal lines insurer, created a pre-fill capability for auto insurance quoting by integrating external data with its existing policy administration solution, which enabled the company to streamline the application process and improve cross-sell with homeowners.

Surveys from Towers Watson and IIS describe global insurance executives’ concerns and find much consistency across nations.