Digital distribution

Partnership supports Symetra’s alignment strategy to help advisors grow, protect practices.

Convenience, life triggers shape buying habits, reports LIMRA.

Asia, including China and India, is spearheading the trend, covering roughly 80 percent of this emerging market.

There was this tremendous downturn in the stock market in 2008, and here we are four years later but confidence has not been restored. There’s lots of opportunity for insurers to solve the things that seniors are worried about.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions’ global capabilities expanded to help meet the needs of international clients.

“The Customer, Google and UK Car Insurance: Lessons from Evolving Customer Search Behavior” reveals that price comparison tools increase the premium across all insurers. “They make the insurance product about price rather than best fit for the client’s needs,” said report co-author and Celent Analyst Craig Beattie.

The fifth annual index found that 24 percent of respondents tried to resolve their property/casualty insurance issues online before calling their insurers directly compared to 21 percent for health insurance.

While retirement concerns grow, insurers are still struggling to assist with better planning for those concerns.

App provides information to aviation insurance brokers, Starr policyholders and potential insureds.

Targeting advisers, employers and participants, the insurer enhances tools within two of its retirement plan websites.

Tool enables financial professionals to include annuities, life insurance and long-term care insurance in retirement planning discussions.

Progressive companies say benefits help retain employees, increase employee productivity, and help attract talent, according to survey results.

Growth of both variable and fixed annuity sales were challenged in Q4; overall, VA saw 13-percent growth, while fixed slipped one percent.

In declaring a $10.2 trillion protection gap, Conning suggests the Internet and social media as outreach tools that have the ability to help insurers regain middle market traction.

UnitedHealth will provide insurance coverage in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Oman, Lebanon, Bahrain and Kuwait

Many employers are interested in exploring corporate exchanges, which could increase competition among health insurers.

Consumers who purchase insurance where they bank are among most profitable, loyal and desirable customers, according to new study.

New features in pricing software to enhance predictive modeling, accuracy.

NexJ’s Integrated Agent Desktop unified the point-of-entry for 14 of the carrier’s external systems.

The program administrators and managing general agents market is expected to grow in 2012, according to Guy Carpenter & Company survey of specialty program insurance providers.