Digital distribution

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City’s integration of Tuo Underwriting system is part of a marketing strategy to leverage Tuo and Microsoft Dynamics.

Facebook remains an intriguing channel and marketing tool for insurers, and this debate with regulators underlines just how important it could be.

Insurers must work harder to educating advisors on how their products work if they want to boost sales, LIMRA says.

SMA report says agencies may open wallets to improve areas such as product development and premium volume rebounds.

LifeGuard Freedom 6 Net features a Joint Option to guarantee income for policyholders, and a 6% bonus for the first 10 years if no withdrawals are made.

Progressive named Joanna Wright of Harvey Monteith Insurance the winner of its contest.

Insurer looks to bring investment capabilities of Sun Life’s Boston-based asset management arm to Canadian retail investors.

Branded Marketing LLC is trying to combat churn by offering free Chubb insurance policies to users of its prepaid MasterCards.

The boundary between where social networking for an employer stops, and personal networking begins keeps getting fuzzier and fuzzier.

Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group is planning an initial public offering for its subsidiary, Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation (LMAC).

As insurers expand accessibility for the customer and distribution systems, streamlining supporting processes becomes even more important.

While insurers' annuity sales seem to be steady, banks' fixed annuity sales fell 16% from Q3 to Q4 in 2009, and 43% year-over-year.

Given the importance of distribution management to P&C, life and annuity insurers in 2009, carriers should go one step further with PRM.

Sircon for Carriers is designed to streamline a producer’s lifecycle process by automating the licensing and appointing, producer compliance management and agent on-boarding aspects.

Nearly one-third of survey respondents use search engines first when researching policy options.

INN announces a call for nominations for the 2010 Women in Insurance Leadership program.

Expert doubts annuity sales to be stellar in 2010 with unemployment to remain high.

The seeming over-abundance of accolades can obscure real business accomplishments.

How the top six bank life programs make it work.

For insurers like SafeAuto that heavily rely on online consumer engagement, robust application uptime and performance means the difference been competitive edge and sure trouble.