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The prediction of a Swine Flu pandemic brings to light an urgent and dire need for electronic health data.

An NICB report shows suspicious car fires up 27%, slip-and-falls up 77% and hail damage claims soar 407%.

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, which provides regulatory intelligence, policy management, and process management products and services to help financial services organizations control and provide oversight to their compliance programs, reports that its insurance compliance products will be available to U.K. insurance companies that conduct business in the United States.

Insurance IT vendors should readjust their approach to selling solutions in a way that better meets the needs of their customers.

Insurance technology vendors should heed these tips when working with the analyst community.

Former AIG Insurance Services Inc. president Anthony Galioto will become president, CEO and director of York Insurance Services Group, effective April 20, 2009.

In a Benchmark Survey conducted by the Professional Insurance Agents Association, agency principals rated “adjust claims fairly” and “pays claims promptly” as the two top factors when evaluating an insurer.

Pointing to economic-driven necessities, the insurer has gone into production with SAP ERP financials, claims next.

The industry may still be in the black, but catastrophe and investment losses have taken a toll on the bottom line.

Industry conferences shy away from vendor-led sessions.

Economist Ian Ayres, who recently addressed the Casualty Actuarial Society, believes methods such as neural networks might be beneficial for actuaries when approaching data mining as part of the predictive modeling process.

Leading Insurance Services Inc. will change from a stand-alone data capture mechanism to an integrated solution.

While recessions tend to place downward pressure on workers’ compensation exposure, National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) chief economist says this could result in a surge in claims.

The average personal injury protection payment for claims from vehicles with seatbelts, but without airbags, was 32% higher than the average for vehicles with front airbags, and 57% higher than the average for vehicles with both front and side airbags.

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A new report from Celent sees double-digit growth ahead for business process outsourcing.

A new study reveals that insurers paid out $52.5 billion in global property claims.

Capital District Physicians' Health Plan and Excellus BlueCross Blue Shield are the latest New York insurers to be named in the suit against Ingenix Inc.

The new system will expose existing legacy assets as Web services, delivering patient liability information immediately to physicians and providers.

The product is designed to enable health plans to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of the provider network.