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After another year of meager growth, a new report from Gartner posits that this year businesses are primed for spikes in analytic adoption rates.

What do you get when you mix trillions of dollars in assets and a quasi-ignorant understanding of finance? Enter the Generation X and Generation Y consumers.

Arch Re, CNA, Main Street America, Marsh & McLennan, MetLife, Nationwide and Willis announce fourth-quarter and 2012 financials this week.

The Committee urges the Federal Insurance Office to submit its long overdue reports, including those on the insurance industry in general and recommendations to modernize and improve the U.S. regulation.

Insurer's Benefit Advisors division will gain access to tools and products to help navigate health care reform.

Protection IUL designed to provide a low-premium option for producers and consumers.

Despite some of Jobs' more extreme eccentricities, his management skills offer sound advice for insurers striving to be innovative.

Big spenders may garner lots of likes on Facebook, but when it comes to social media interaction, smaller, specialized insurers lead the way.

Trade agreements could enhance regulatory cooperation and efficiency, promote competition, and prevent regulatory gaps and overlaps.

Calls for improved information sharing and a set of standards should alleviate insurers' concerns with cybersecurity—but it also puts some pressure on insurers to update themselves along with the standards.

Like other paradigmatic technologies before it, cloud is just a tool that requires the right people working on it in the right environment to be effective.

The record-high interest in hiring from the middle of last year is continuing to grow, as 56.2 percent of insurers are planning to increase staff over the next 12 months, according to the latest “Insurance Labor Market Study” conducted by Jacobson Group, an insurance staffing company, and Ward Group, and insurance consultancy.

After a six-month search, the health insurer announced hospital head Joseph Swedish will fill its vacant chief executive role.

Market positioning cited as primary reason for IT budget growth; 10 percent of insurers will reduce IT budgets by 10 percent this year, SMA finds.

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner woes offer stark lessons for insurers overseeing IT projects.

Anticipating a more customer-centric strategy, insurers will look to new data sources and analytical techniques to sharpen risk understanding and customer profiling, according to a new report.

Purchase highlights recent reports indicating life insurers are outspending P&C insurers when it comes to online/mobile quoting systems.

California leads states in QCs; suspicious loss of jewelry increased 86 percent.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, acting as regulatory overseer to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will further review the force-placed market and its costs.

Earlier today, Marsh announced strategic changes to its Flood Service Center (FSC) that will allow it to service standard flood insurance policies as part of the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) Write Your Own (WYO) Program.