Digital distribution

Home energy management services suite designed to serve customers via breakdown coverage.

Will touchscreens offering rapid access to new enterprise apps become the norm for insurance carriers?

Insurer to implement FireLight, which is designed for electronic term life insurance business processing.

Novarica Research Council Impact Award Nominee of the Day: Cincinnati Financial transforms independent agents’ process business using ACORD XML standards and real time from agency systems.

GEICO has the simplest brand among U.S. insurers, according to Siegel+Gale released its 2012 U.S. and Global Brand Simplicity rankings today. GEICO, ranked 21 out of 125 U.S. brands, was the only insurer to be considered a “leader,” as Allstate, which was ranked 84th in the United States as the only other insurer listed, was the last brand included in the “middle of the pack” section.

Insurers that have invested in analytics tools in the past year are just beginning to recognize their ability to manage producers and improve their performance with the technology.

Portal to serve Andesa’s ADASTAR Q+ plan administration system.

Insurer hopes e-signature capabilities will improve mobile distribution strategies, enable straight-through mobile processing.

Innovation Insurer upgrade designed to make the experience more customer-centric while decreasing operational and claims costs.

Given a $3 million-to-$5 million bump in budget, almost one-third of insurer CIOs would put the money toward analytics, despite already investing heavily in that area, according to “If I Had $5 Million… Where Insurer CIOs Would Spend Money They Don’t Have and Why,” a survey from Novarica.

Version 2.1 designed to simplify e-application business fulfillment, processing.

Davinder Singh of Pramerica Life Insurance discusses the technology challenges behind his company's ambitious venture into microinsurance.

Michael Raynor, author of "The Innovator's Manifesto" discusses where insurers need to focus innovation and disruption efforts.

BillingCenter to provide billing management system for all Amica’s lines of business.

The branchless bank is combining retail banking, retirement and insurance services in its online banking site.

Insurers looks to iPipeline’s Content Partner and iGO eApp for improved distribution of life and annuity products.

Erie Insurance announced three executive appointments today: Richard Burt, EVP, Product; Christina Marsh, SVP, Services; and Dionne Wallace Oakley, SVP, Human Resources.

Bank-owned life insurance (BOLI) assets reached $145.6 billion in the first quarter of 2012, an 8.7 percent year-over-year increase from the reported BOLI assets of $133.9 billion for the same period in 2011, according to the Michael White/Meyer-Chatfield Bank-Owned Life Insurance Holdings Report.

Benefit Builder, an alternative to a traditional inflation option, is designed to provide automatic increases in benefits that occur gradually over time, as well as voluntary buy-up options.

The Innovation Group plc released a new version of Insurer Analytics, which includes new functionality for policy analysis, insurance analytics, usability and extract/transform/load (ETL) process. The new version is designed to enable users to measure, monitor and manage and uncover insights and opportunities.