Claims

Chubb, Amica among insurers rolling out mobile offerings.

As the most costly first quarter on record for the industry comes to a close, the U.S. market is showing signs of being in transition.

Personal health, life and P&C insurers face myriad claims challenges, and many are using technology to overcome them.

Experts say insurance fraud has grown in the current recession, but insurers seem unwilling to fund anti-fraud measures

Master data management is insurers’ best recourse to unlock the siloed data often associated with multiple applications for each line of business.

The more than $43 billion cost to the global insurance industry was an increase of more than 60% over the previous year, according to a Swiss Re sigma study.

Bill that eliminates annual report card for quality of claims service passes house by wide margin.

IFM 3.2 to score claims from independent testing facilities, provide enhanced summary reports.

New multi-platform insurance app breaks down claims barriers.

Software suite to provide red flags for suspicious claim elements, built-in role-specific scenarios and enhanced pattern recognition features.

Allianz report highlights catastrophe-prone regions, climate change and the importance of preparedness.

Economy will be seriously altered after $309 billion in losses, but may be diffused against the country’s global market position.

Michael McRaith weighs in on the status of the Affordable Care Act, and its impact on insurers.

Former N.Y. legislator receives one to three years for pocketing $863,000 insurance check paid out by AIG.

Insurers release claims estimates in wake of earthquake and tsunami.

Although often an elusive target by SIUs, these cases prove that greed leads to sloppy actions that leave fraudsters open to being caught.

Modeling firm gauges total insured loss from Japanese quake to be $12-25 billion.

Growth strategies, expense reduction and improving underwriting results top personal lines insurers’ priority lists, Novarica says.

As the reality of devastation and loss of life sink in, some seek to point the finger of blame at technology.

Based on early calculations and modeling conducted by AIR Worldwide, insured property losses from the Mw9.1 earthquake that struck Japan on Friday will range between 1.2 trillion JPY to 2.8 trillion JPY. Using today’s exchange rate of 81.85 JPY to the dollar, this translates to a range of between 15 billion USD and 35 billion USD.