Digital distribution

For the third consecutive year, INN recognizes the unique accomplishments of the industry's prominent female leaders.

The retirement solutions association new service is designed to provide implementers of the STP Standards Initiative with an easy-to-use tool to expedite the testing of electronic data messages against a neutral, standard reference system.

Insurer voting is in progress as INN and Celent partner on INN’s 3rd annual ranking of tech solution providers.

The solution provides life insurance agents with access to mission-critical business processes for policy placement in a completely electronic environment.

At INN's Insurance Business Analytics conference last week, insurers weighed how best to implement and leverage business analytics.

TowerGroup points to economic, market and regulatory volatility as the No. 1 business driver for financial institutions.

Survey results from Fiserv Insurance Solutions also reveal that the top three most important technologies for insurers are service-oriented architecture, business process management and data accessibility layer technology.

Insurance.com’s RateWatch for Car Insurance found that the lowest car insurance quotes, on average, were up 3% over the previous quarter.

The company’s on-demand software adoption in insurance contributes to ranks in the Philadelphia 100 and Inc. 5000.

A new survey ranks 250 insurers according to ease of doing business.

A new study from Norvax Inc. says that while many consumers look, few buy health insurance online.

Agencies continue to cautiously grow despite shaky economy.

Insurers that do not innovate will not realize success until they fully recognize, embrace and apply innovation to a “customer is king” approach.

Agency Markets’ regional companies take home Applied Systems’ awards for agency-carrier interface leadership through the use of real-time rating and servicing transactions and download.

A new Celent report says countless variations of administrative forms can exact a heavy cost on insurers’ bottom lines.

Harford Mutual took advantage of the benefits of hindsight when building its interface.

The result of a lengthy and intensive undertaking designed to create a new system, the release is constructed on new architecture designed to be flexible and scalable.

Consumers boost ratings of life insurers’ Web sites slightly, but ranking is still below the overall cross industry benchmark.

Companies will combine regulatory content and delivery technologies to create an on-demand compliance tool for carriers, agents and brokers.

The solutions will combine the expertise of IBM's Global Business Services and Norkom's financial crime and compliance software.