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For insurers considering social media as a go-to-market strategy, the future is wide open.

Mobile technology platforms offer opportunities, but carriers need to craft a development strategy to avoid headaches.

The focus for insurance industry innovations in 2011 includes business analytics and data warehousing, cloud-enabled software-as-a-service and new mobility solutions.

Insurers on the hook for $36 billion—a 34% jump from last year, Swiss Re report says.

Insurers now have until December 3 to cast votes for their top technology solution providers.

Health care reforms, competition may slow growth and profitability, yet insures can insulate themselves from further damage, says report.

Business process outsourcing and Software-as-a-Service use will rise in 2011, according to a new Celent report.

A study by a UK insurance aggregator revealed some possibly shocking results.

Browser-based solutions provider says the expansion is due to its rapidly growing client base.

As November 30 deadline approaches, insurer voting continues as INN and Celent partner on INN’s 5th annual ranking of tech solution providers.

Carriers still challenged with aligning operating expenses with the "new normal" should pursue a transformational strategy rather than an incremental approach.

Marshall & Swift/Boeckh to provide cost information for estimating property claims.

As climate researchers turn verbal somersaults to explain their findings, insurers will remain perplexed over future weather patterns.

Many believe that the future for insurers is in the mobile Web.

While fatalities are down, more can be done to prevent injuries and fatalities, report says.

Property/casualty industry has until 2012 to comply with new mandatory reporting requirements on liability claims.

As studies confirm the promise and limits of traditional safe driving initiatives, technology may provide an answer.

The feds say it will be a “secure” system, but definitions of security vary.

A new Celent report profiles 28 vendors serving Europe, the Middle East and Africa, noting that cost isn’t most important issue for insurers.

As a response to the economic challenges of the past two years, insurance companies are wrestling with rising claims, both legitimate and fraudulent, more competition for new customers, and new restrictions on investment activities that have reduced operational budgets, notes Mitratech, a provider of collaborative accountability applications including matter management and e-billing management automation.