Policy adminstration

Despite slow growth when compared to second-quarter figures, increases in year-to-year annuity sales remain strong.

Enhanced version designed to simplify agent-carrier workflows and streamline marketing processes.

Independence Blue Cross is in the process of testing a wireless-enabled fitness device and apps that can be used to support wellness, the Philadelphia-based insurer reports.

Insurers believe creative disruption has value, and they want their share.

Issue First to deliver permanent life insurance policies before underwriting process is completed by asking eight critical questions up-front.

Three lessons to learn from the ongoing global economic crisis.

AIG, The Hartford, Munich Re, Prudential, Sun Life and nine others release third-quarter figures.

Insurance units of bank holding companies generated a record $7.9 billion in fees during the first half of this year, up 14 percent from the same period in 2010.

Against regulatory pressures, insurers plan to meet challenges of a sluggish economy, weak pricing environment, and inability to generate underwriting profits with organic growth strategies.

Unpredictability, layers of complexity, yet-to-be-seen risks all play forward into challenges and opportunities for insurers’ social media strategies.

The carrier is looking to fill 100 positions in its Dallas office by February of next year.

Insurer says new pension-like product now accounts for 20 percent of its annuity sales volume.

Carriers need to strike a balance between standardization and customization when writing policies and paying claims.

Report says worldwide IT spending pertaining to risk functions will increase to more than $74 billion by 2015.

If Novarica’s Chad Hersh had a crystal ball, he would have told insurance technology attendees at a technology user conference in Austin this morning that the future is already here.

New Agent App From ING

Appointments aimed at helping company provide support to insurers creating usage-based insurance products.

Insurance Networking News, the independent authority on the latest technology to support insurers' business strategies, kicked off its annual 2011 Vanguards in Insurance (VIP) awards program, in which carriers vote for their industry's top technology providers and these providers in turn nominate the most visionary insurance carriers.

Vendor incorporates Duck Creek's policy software in an attempt to offer more robust P&C product.

As a result of the agreement, Partners Mutual expects to be assigned Penn National's pooled rating by A.M. Best.