Policy adminstration

Insurers that want to remain competitive and profitable must make the commitment to becoming truly customer-centric, according to a recent study, and there are initial factors to consider.

Cheap mainframe servers that support private cloud computing could change the way insurers think about enterprise architecture.

Under outsourcing agreement, provider will continue to develop, implement and maintain insurer's CRM, claims and policy administration services.

InsureRight platform features designed to provide underwriters, managers and executives with access to pricing and risk analysis.

Reinsurance capacity depresses prices and earnings; brokers report $45 billion in additional capacity, A.M. Best said.

Only 10 percent of top marketing and IT executives believe collaboration between their corporate functions is sufficient, according to a new survey.

Simon Curtis will be responsible for overseeing financial practices in North America.

The IBM Signature Solution is a dashboard application intended to facilitate credit lifecycle management by aggregating data from various internal and external data sets.

Has the time arrived for specialist wholesale and reinsurance companies to examine their organizational structures and weed out redundant management and administrative costs?

A new report from Strategy Meets Action outlines current challenges and opportunities that should be top-of-mind for technologists and software providers.

Online form collects the data of a potential consumer, which is routed to a home office interviewer to complete the process.

While consumers are finding UBI programs easier to use, nearly half of are uncomfortable with sharing driving data, according to a LexisNexis survey.

Great American, PURE and two others take home awards for best practices in insurance industry IT initiatives and strategy.

Half of marketers surveyed for a new report agree that data is “the most underutilized asset” in their organizations, according to a new survey.

As part of a larger strategy to modernize operational systems, the insurer migrates commercial auto and liability to Instec’s Quicksolver, which is now in production and running on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform.

Configurable integration software designed to reduce the need for coding, cut implementation costs by half.

Larger insurers are more likely to use price optimization to increase profitability, and half use segmented demand models; most smaller insurers assume rate changes won’t impact customer demand.

LifeSuite designed to enable the automation of straight-through underwriting processing with a Web-based system.

There are several questions to answer before you begin looking for C-suite help when it comes to technology and innovation.

Low inflation and interest rates, as well as static cost drivers, have helped stabilize claim costs; workers’ comp and product liability among weakest segments.