Digital distribution

iPipeline's DocFast software allows agents to digitally send policies to clients.

About 71 percent of people who signed up were renewing coverage and 60 percent returned to healthcare.gov to update their information, check out their options or select a new plan, CMS said.

The company's Strategic Ventures arm has added new companies to its U.S. portfolio.

These alternative approaches are good news for the industry as they challenge the traditional, sometimes adversarial, relationship between insurer and insured.

Accenture has identified six reasons that insurance companies are taking a more digital approach to distribution.

The carrier revamped core systems for its commercial lines.

FastPath aims to help agents serve small business customers faster.

Berkshire Hathaway Direct Insurance Co. will initially focus on workers’ compensation and business owners’ package policies.

Customers are pushing for new tools ranging from robo-advisers to omnichannel access, while insurers will use digital technologies to transform their offices, both on the front and back-end.

ZocDoc Inc. and Oscar Health Insurance Corp. are providing free Internet advertising that will target the uninsured.

Insurance is changing: it will be lean and 'just in time,' driven by the Internet of Things, digitally delivered and serviced.

Clients of DRC's GameChanger Portal now can offer an all-digital signing process to their agents.

Looking to add $6.9 billion to its books, Allianz has partnered with China's Baidu search engine on digital distribution.

The insurer, which recently completed a merger with Catlin, has taken a 10% stake in the White Plains, N.Y. specialty carrier.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is scaling back marketing efforts for plans it’s selling this year under the Affordable Care Act, and may quit the business entirely in 2017.

The companies have new versions of their insurance software.

Two of the key tools of innovation can bridge the gap that exists in the download between insurers and agents: actual ideation and crowdsourcing.

Docusign and Visa have developed a prototype platform for handling lease-related transactions, including insurance enrollment, right from the car.

New features on the site focus on elucidating healthcare costs.

The company's new Stop-Loss Benchmarking tool follows the launch of Benefit Profile earlier this year.