Digital distribution

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.

A bus tour brings agents and insurers together to discuss what each side can do to further the ambitions of the other.

The property/casualty industry is facing a number of potentially transformational forces, including increasing competition, consumerization, the number of communications options for both agents and customers, social networking, and an evolving regulatory environment, according to Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for P&C Insurance, 2012.”

Two new studies amplify the benefits—especially for women—of working with financial advisors, and provide insight into a changing demographic for life insurers.

To successfully deliver e-signatures and e-delivery applications, insurers should begin by implementing them in a single process or product, according to a strategic analysis released by ACORD and developed by international law firm Locke Lord LLP.

One-third of “transition boomers,” those aged 55 to 65 and who are 10 years or fewer away from retirement, are unsure how much money they will need to cover basic living expenses in retirement, according to “The Transition Boomers and Retirement Income Survey,” from Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.

Life, annuity and pension firms are struggling to generate profits for shareholders, members and policyholders due to the global economic slowdown, increased competition and low interest rates. This confluence of factors is leading many insurers to reassess which products and markets are to be considered strategic, and how to best manage the discontinued, unprofitable and non-strategic portions of their business, according “Strategies and Options for Managing Closed Blocks: Life, Annuities, and Pensions Edition,” a new report from Celent.

Competition for the individual retirement market is heating up as the number of baby boomers heading into retirement increases, creating an opportunity for insurers to attract new customers and their assets, according to “The Big Payout: Growing Individual Retirement Income Opportunities 2012,” a report from Conning Research & Consulting.

Coverage form aims to address evolving risks, rising costs of various construction project types.

Latest version aims to enable quicker document creation and time-to-market for new products.

Insurance is labeled an early adopter of social media in a new report from the International Data Corporation (IDC), titled “2012 U.S. Social Media Trends by Vertical.” The banking industry was cited as being a late adopter.