Policy adminstration

New optional rider intended for customers seeking growth potential, guaranteed protection.

Intending to address product development and customer service, insurer picks up Duck Creek's policy administration and billing solutions.

U.S. unit could be up for sale as insurer attempts to regain adequate capital levels.

Regulators in New York and California are looking into the extremely high profits yielded from, and competitive nature of, force-placed insurance.

New IASA president is finance manager for State Farm; association also named a new CIO and CFO.

Deloitte survey also finds risks not continuously monitored at most firms despite available automation; most intend to revamp risk management within 12 months.

With wide-spread use just around the corner, hundreds of IT and business professionals nearly unanimously affirm the effectiveness of BI.

A new study from Deloitte outlines what employees want, and it takes more than social media and new technology to deliver it.

Dr. Gero Michel will be tasked with enhancing risk analysis efforts for natural catastrophe exposed businesses including research, development, portfolio optimization and other underwriting initiatives.

Five appointed to leadership roles that include heads of product, transformation management, compliance, IT and HR.

To expand distribution in a static market, insurers are looking at everything from system revamps to new technologies to new partnerships.

The negative effects of being slow to modernize may build up gradually, unnoticed, until suddenly it directly impacts business.

A recent Deloitte survey attempts to answer some of the questions behind the life insurance sales gap conundrum.

Don’t let appearances fool you; North American and International reinsurance rate increases are due to modest losses and poor results, not a hardening market, according to Willis Re chairman.

The property/casualty industry experienced rising financial impairment trends in 2011, with impaired companies still emerging well into 2012 and driving figures well-beyond industry averages. 2011’s 34 P&C impairments represented a significant jump from the 28 reported for the year by A.M. Best on Jan. 23, 2012.

Victims of wildfires that have claimed hundreds of houses and almost 30 miles of land prompt are flooding insurers with hundreds of claims.

U.K. general insurer goes to Guidewire for underwriting, policy administration and claims software.

Several of the company’s offices see new underwriting officials.

Industry associations applaud the long-term reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program as part of a compromise deal that included the surface transportation reauthorization and student loan bill.

In a recent survey, European and global non-life insurers are found frustrated with the inflexibility of their portals.