Claims

The hurricane weakened to Category 1 upon landfall on the North Carolina Outer Banks.

High performance claims handling could turn overlooked data into actionable information with considerable economic impact, Aite Group says.

The agreement, which will result in more than 100 industry-specific enterprise apps, will significantly change how banking, healthcare, insurance and other markets operate.

Mobile Sales Agent, Mobile Underwriter and Mobile Claims Adjustor are among the enterprise solutions scheduled for release.

Bringing together clinical and claims data is a key to population management as the combination of data helps identify two-to-three times more patients for intervention services.

Property and liability insurer replaces an outdated legacy policy, claims and billing management system.

Using cross-functional teams to break down silos improves the chances of success when building highly complicated systems.

Global natural catastrophe activity low for the first half of 2014. However, various blizzards in North America this past winter totaled around $3.4 billion, according to Munich Re.

Consolidation and fluctuating returns have complicated risk management, creating new technology priorities for insurers, according to Novarica study.

The two companies will provide the document offer applications designed to simplify policy creation and delivery.

The abundance of technology choices consumers have has triggered a shift in expectations.

In a crowded and price-driven market, Grange Insurance is concentrating on claims tech initiatives to retain customers and drive profitability.

Bob Pace now is VP and chief claims officer; Tim Horgan now is chief marketing officer and VP of transportation.

New features include alert, configuration and upgrade tools.

By unlocking the value of petabytes of patient-specific data, health insurance plans will be able to help members to achieve their health care goals, says presenter at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute 2014.

Jonathan Kalman, president of Return on Intelligence, offered the following predictions, takeaways and advice at the IASA 2014 Educational Conference and Business Show in Indianapolis last week.

According to the NICB, California leads the nation in SUV and CUV thefts; Ford Escape is the most stolen.

To increase market share and increase relevancy, Accenture says insurers must plan for the blurring between the digital and physical world, the rise of crowdsourcing, the advent of the data supply chain and three other trends.

While insurers have spent years and millions of dollars acquiring or replacing information systems, there is a lack alignment between companies’ business and IT organizations, according to a panel at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute.

The application is designed to simplify and automate photo documentation capture and filing.