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Mobile tool designed to help drivers following auto accidents.

Survey reveals that 74% of nation’s insurers are hiring.

INN announces a call for nominations for the 2010 Women in Insurance Leadership program.

ISCS SurePower Innovation Policy Admin Suite is a Web- and SOA-based program designed to automate underwriting and manage claims.

PMC Claim Center, also known as Guidewire ClaimCenter, is an end-to-end platform that can be used with all PMC technology.

The seeming over-abundance of accolades can obscure real business accomplishments.

In this final part of a series covering INN's 3rd annual INNovators program winners, the experiences of the Runners Up-MetLife and The Phoenix-provide a glimpse into the challenges to, and ultimate benefits of, innovation.

New Celent report says insurers are making slow, but steady progress remaking their core systems.

Conducting business in what is often termed the nation's epicenter for organized auto insurance fraudsters--namely, those who deliberately crash vehicles and falsely report injuries from auto accidents--is a challenge. For Florida-based Direct General Insurance Co., that challenge may have temporarily lessened somewhat, thanks to a recent eight-month investigation and resultant dismantling of an organized "crash ring."

For insurers like SafeAuto that heavily rely on online consumer engagement, robust application uptime and performance means the difference been competitive edge and sure trouble.

The National Flood Insurance program, which has limped along on a series of temporary extensions, may be due for a more substantial resolution.

Online tool enables single, uniform reporting to multiple entities.

American Association of Insurance Services data center is designed to allow member companies access to its traditional premium and loss data, plus geographic, demographic, weather, crime and other types of data collected from public and private sources.

Steering a car with one’s eyes seems like a neat idea ... until you look the wrong way.

A report from the Insurance Research Council concludes the current cost shifting means significant costs for the property/casualty insurance industry.

Making its auto insurance application available on Google’s mobile Android smartphones, Progressive sees immediate uptick in Web site traffic.

Industry weighs in as legislators seek long-term fix to the troubled National Flood Insurance Plan.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Pegasystems Inc., a provider of business process management (BPM) software, has acquired Cupertino, Calif.-based Chordiant Software, Inc., a provider of claims management and business acquisition software to the insurance industry.

Blue Shield of California will identify on its Web site physicians in the state who score above average in up to eight quality measures.

While mainframes are still both viable and valuable, perhaps the key to this semantic pretzel is that the needs of the business must come first, and executives shouldn’t rush to adopt new systems simply because they're the latest-and-greatest new tech.