Digital distribution

Insurers sold $61.9 billion of annuities, compared with $52.7 billion a year earlier, according to LIMRA.

Data analytics is a potent tool for bolstering carriers' relationships with agent networks.

The new application is intended to offer insurers a view of the market and competitive positions for annuities.

E-signature functionality expected to reduce not-in-good-order rates and increase speed to completing new business.

CEO Tom Wilson has turned his focus to expansion after spending years reducing sales to homeowners in states such as New York and Florida.

Only 19 percent of enrollees chose the coverage with the cheapest premiums, and mid-level silver plans drew 62 percent.

The multi-channel platform will support automated sales and marketing efforts throughout the life insurance organization.

The relationship between agent and carrier is a leading factor in not just the success of a PAS transformation, but in the success of the business' as a whole.

Strategy Meets Action Founder Deb Smallwood discusses the current landscape of telematics, opportunities and challenges that come with it and action items for insurers.Throughout January and February, Smallwood detailed each of SMAs five next-generation technologies — analytics and big data, mobile technologies, collaboration technologies, cloud computing and telematics.To find out how the research and consulting firm came to these five, click here. No. 1: Analytics and Big DataNo. 2: Mobile TechnologiesNo. 3. CollaborationNo. 4. Cloud Computing

MetLife is counting on expansion in markets from Chile to South Korea to help meet CEO's 2016 goal of achieving return on equity of 12 percent to 14 percent.

Obamacare health plans enrolled 3.3 million people through January, with young adult participants increasing 65 percent from a month earlier.

The reason excellent customer experience is hard for so many insurance companies? Legacy technology infrastructure.

The general manager of usage-based insurance says predictive models are the "secret sauce" that gives the company a competitive advantage in the space.

Insurers are ready to design digital solutions that change the industry into a continuous, predictive, risk management service.

Employers with fewer than 100 workers won’t have to provide health insurance until 2016 under Obamacare, as the administration said it would again delay a key requirement of the health law.

The Bright Choices Exchange is designed to offer ancillary benefits and access to mid-sized and large employers nationwide.

Mark Bertolini tells investors health plans allowed to continue in 2014 though they don’t comply with new Obamacare rules may be extended for as long as three years.

Accenture survey finds that $400 billion in insurance premiums could change hands within the industry over the next 12 months.

As Cigna this week became one of the first insurers to announce its own online marketplace — amid countless others created by brokers, consultants and tech firms — some say the definition of this concept has become muddied.

The insurers’ strategy is an unexpected consequence as the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, kicks into gear.