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Berkshire is already among the largest reinsurers of asbestos and environmental policies.

The commercial use of drones has the potential to transform many industries—insurance among them.

Reinsurers are seeking to shore up earnings as lower losses from natural disasters and a greater availability of capital weigh on prices.

Claim supervisors face challenges in making time to perform their most important task, according to Towers Watson survey

The race to ‘go digital’ is on as insurers focus their innovation efforts on these five technologies.

INN and Celent recognized the insurance industry’s most innovative solution providers and carriers at our eighth annual awards ceremony in New Orleans.

The web-based, policy, billing, claims and reinsurance insurance administration system from Maximum Processing is intended to help the insurer improve client offerings, productivity and operational efficiencies.

New offerings target MGAs, TPAs, workers comp, self-insureds and mutual carriers

Blind-spot and lane-departure systems are immature, and drivers must still learn how to use them, according to AAA engineering experts.

The insurance industry’s list of cars and trucks that do the best job of keeping owners alive in a crash jumped 82 percent this year against a backdrop of U.S. recalls of older models that were killing their passengers.

Claims solutions from Accenture and Guidewireare deemed best in class for technology, functionality and customer service.

Easing the regulatory burden is the happy by-product of many core system upgrades.

The software solutions are intended to help the P&C insurer boost customer service and time to market by streamlining underwriting, policy admin, claims and business intelligence.

Celent offers a Digital Insurance Proposition Continuum for benchmarking industry offerings.

The group of federal magistrate judges in Brooklyn and Central Islip rejected arguments by insurers that disclosure was unfair or burdensome.

The reduction is due in part to new technologies and better investigations, according to NICB research.

Judge Gary R. Brown, who discussed the discrepancy between reports for the home in a Nov. 7 ruling, said he feared the practice was “widespread” and ordered that all reports be disclosed to policyholders.

Drones could more quickly inspect areas that are inaccessible by ground, speeding payments to customers, Allstate said.

INN celebrated its Women in Insurance Leadership award winners at a celebration in Chicago on October 20 and 21.

The accusation came in a case before a federal magistrate judge in Central Islip, New York, who said earlier the practice “may be widespread.”