Policy adminstration

A full quarter of working-age adults experienced a health insurance coverage gap in 2011, mainly because they lost or changed their jobs, according to a think-tank.

New structure breaks business into four units based on underwriting tasks and account types.

INCOME Promise Select designed to improve customization and attempts to provide more flexibility to fixed income plans.

Deal includes upgrades surrounding policy, billing, claims, imaging and reinsurance processing.

Award qualifications based on written premiums, cumulative loss ratio and premium retention.

Payer/provider interoperability, health insurance exchanges among top 10 issues on The Managed Care Executive Group’s radar for 2012.

Despite massive catastrophe losses, insurers meet obligations and have surpluses to cover new claims.

Organic growth behind carriers’ desire for technologies that facilitate customer requests and consolidate multiple document systems.

Distracted driver disconnect ongoing as more teens believe they could get into an accident when drinking and driving versus texting and driving, notes State Farm survey.

These tools and methodologies, such as Hadoop and MapReduce, can help insurers unlock the real potential of Big Data.

The “Aon Risk Maturity Index” identifies trends in the overall risk maturity of organizations based in different parts of the world.

Oracle seeking roughly $1 billion in damages; Google and Oracle CEOs expected to be among first witnesses.

State Farm, Progressive and Allstate noted for successful Facebook presences in a recent report breaking down the industry’s take on social media.

The stress of filing income taxes may make U.S. motorists more prone to fatal motor vehicle accidents today say Canadian researchers.

Analytics M&A streak continues as IBM picks up analytics provider with more than 180 clients, including Farmers Insurance.

a study by Willis Group Holdings reported that among primary umbrella casualty lines more than 75 percent of insured clients are seeing modest rate increases on renewal, driven by gradual increases in revenues and rating exposures.

Participants in national online pilot learn skills to help manage conditions and interact with others living with chronic illness.

USAA files suit against Mitek for alleged misappropriation of USAA's proprietary information, breach of contract and fraud; Mitek responds with a countersuit for alleged patent infringement and breach of contract relating to its technology.

SIGNiX, VERTIX deal reflects growing industry adoption of electronic signature technology.

Social media's versatility makes it impossible to assess objectively, but there are many examples of companies employing different strategies very effectively.