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Customers increasingly want the convenience of mobile-based payment options, and insurers are finding a host of benefits to offering it, including increased customer retention, lower costs and more consistent levels of service.

The insurance applications space is evolving as new players enter and specialized vendors grow through acquisitions.

Progressive has been licensing UBI intellectual property since December 2012.

Maximizing IT’s value requires realistic expectations and transparency, as well as planning and decision making that are aligned with business goals, according to PwC.

The specialty insurer can now use location parameters, policy type, limits and other attributes to deliver rich, contact-sensitive information to underwriters.

Talon designed to help the reinsurer target and price new markets.

InVEST scholarship winners represent 18 schools and hail from California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio and Virginia.

Berkshire to pay $285 million for variable annuities business, as The Hartford continues to divest in an attempt to focus on property/casualty operations.

Karlyn Carnahan, principal, Novarica, is given 60 seconds to identify the technologies that currently should be top of mind for workers’ comp insurers.

Where once underwriters called the tune, it is now the distributors who have leverage and are setting the ground rules.

Insurers are encountering two obstacles in employing more predictive analytics: a lack of both top-level support and appropriate skill sets.

Andrew Torrance joins the P&C insurer after serving as CEO of Allianz UK.

Practice created to help mutual company clients protect their capital by providing sources of stable income.

Company's focus on selling brand exclusively through independent agents continues.

A guide to the various options insurers have when attempting to tackle lacking data quality, inconsistent formats and fragmented sources.

Product is designed to enable consumers to complete the entire enrollment and eligibility process via the health insurer’s site.

P&C impairments see significant drop from the 34 reported for 2011; however, auto writers and risk retention groups continued to struggle, according to recent A.M. Best report.

State Farm, AAA and Allstate also included in the top 100 of Temkin's 2013 Trust Ratings.

New York Senator calls for FEMA to penalize insurers leaving the region.

A three-year move of 97 percent of a major insurer's applications and data is saving the company millions in the long-term.