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Report says investments in automation and Web services are key to improving profitability.

The partnership will give National Unit access to a special investigations unit with a national scope.

A transitional, if not transformational, environment is afoot for the U.S. P&C industry in 2009, says Ernst & Young, but before carriers take steps forward, concerns must be dispatched.

Designed to protect vehicle owners and stakeholders, the system will give law enforcement, state administrators and consumers access to vehicle information and histories.

Insurers - especially in the current down economy - have a tough decision ahead of them: What to do with policy admin systems.

The analyst's annual awards spotlight insurers that make the most effective use of technology.

The risk specialist says property losses from 37 catastrophes last year were the fourth-highest cost, and highest frequency in the past decade.

The acquisition, which closed last year, puts Ravello in a position to provide solutions for the entire insurance workflow spectrum, says the company.

Both insurers promise to fund a new database and stop using UnitedHealth’s controversial technology that, according to New York State authorities, skewed reimbursement rates.

A new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that fatalities per capita among older drivers has decreased 35% since 1975, and is at its lowest level.

The content management and workflow systems provider is teaming with INSTEC and OneShield on separate projects.

A new report from the National Research Council found that the clinical information systems in a number of medical organizations lack comprehensive decision support.

Spun off from Fiserv, the well-known insurance tech giant will take the name StoneRiver—a brand signifying “strength and transformation,” and akin to its adoptive parents, Stone Point Capital LLC.

According to a new Impact Forecasting LLC report, approximately 86% of Californian homeowners do not have earthquake coverage, despite most of them having mortgaged their homes.

New York — Columbia University ’s Science & Technology Ventures (STV) reports that it has licensed MedLEE, a natural language processing technology, to Columbia spin-out, NLP International Corp.

Currently, Rob Howard is Farmers’ AVP, national auto physical damage operations.

Karen Clark tells INN that insurers should not rely solely on near-term catastrophe modeling in light of overestimating the previous three hurricane seasons.

The insurer’s liability for asbestos-related claims gets a hearing at the highest level.

The carrier hopes to achieve speed-to-market gains by being able to implement rule changes that govern certain underwriting processes in days or real time.

As documented in a recent report, more than half of states score seven or lower out of 10 on key indicators that assess health emergency preparedness.