Digital distribution

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.

GMC Software and IVANS are now part of Guidewire Connect.

The telematics-only insurer has added former Dish Network exec James Moorhead.

Aflac CIO Julia Davis adeptly adopts solutions for the insurer to meet customer demands.

Aetna president Karen S. Lynch's passion for better outcomes powers a desire to help simplify the complex healthcare system.

The company has implemented software from Silanis.

The investment comes at a time when insurers are increasingly interested in venture capital, the aggregation channel, and selling commercial insurance online.

A new government audit reveals widespread failures by the federal agency charged with managing the private contractors who built healthcare.gov.

Insurers have strived to keep pace with consumer technologies and ever more-sophisticated expectations around the customer experience, and now carriers like USAA are banding together with Google Compare and other insurance aggregation sites to offer consumers a new way to shop for and purchase auto insurance.

Professional services company Towers Watson has agreed to acquire Brovada, a Canadian insurance technology business best known for the BrovadaOne platform, an application for integrating and automating interactions between insurers, and their agents and brokers.

Assurant turns its focus to property-casualty coverage, including policies that protect consumer electronics and homes.