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J.D. Power ranked 16 annuities in terms of customer satisfaction. Here are the winners and losers.

Businesses need to rethink their approaches to insurance cost reduction.

Panelists emphasized the significance of a comprehensive data strategy and ethical AI use, along with the industry's potential for innovation.

A representative for Bolttech declined to comment.

The top two municipal bond insurers wrapped $22.814 billion in the first three quarters of 2023, a slight dip of 0.5% from the $22.929 billion of deals done over the same period in 2022, according to Refinitiv data.

The Women in Insurance Leadership honoree identifies five specific moments where companies must excel for customers.

A KPMG poll found more than half of businesses say digital transformation initiatives have exceeded expectations for ROI but this may not necessarily translate into more profits.

Having recently increased its market, Roadzen is turning to a SPAC arrangement to fund further expansion plans.

The organization of state insurance regulators will require carriers to provide more data on their securities holdings, including interest and investment classifications.

This year, in the spirit of innovation, Accenture used generative artificial intelligence to help distill and uncover trends, feeding submissions securely into its gen AI model.

In other news: Foresight, a workers' comp insurer, welcomes new commercial insurance underwriter.

The Paris-based insurance group, is in the final year of a strategic plan kicked off in late 2020 and is expected to unveil a new one in early 2024.

"The main climate factors expected to influence the 2023 Atlantic hurricane activity are the ongoing El Nino and the warm phase of the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation, including record-warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures," said NOAA's Matthew Rosencrans.

Mario Greco, who led his firm out of the Net Zero Insurance Alliance earlier this year amid a wider exodus from the group, has spoken out against the network of voluntary climate alliances that represent some of the biggest names in global finance, calling them "political and bureaucratic."

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Releasing an ESG report prepares you to address potential risks hidden in operations.

Life insurers are among Japan's biggest institutional investors, with a combined portfolio of about 380 trillion yen ($2.7 trillion), according to the association.

Officials are assessing the damage wrought by the worst floods to hit the state since Hurricane Irene. Since then, the state has spent millions to climate-proof infrastructure.

The plea deal ended an embarrassing chapter for the German insurance giant, which agreed to sell the bulk of Allianz Global Investors US to Voya Financial Inc. after the unit was banned for a decade from some fund services in the country.

The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association is getting ready to head back to the market next week with a variable-rate bond deal after successfully selling fixed-rate bonds last week to help fund claims from insolvent insurance companies.