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Health insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may pose a threat to COBRA.

Risks rise as employees increasingly use personal mobile devices for enterprise purposes.

Doug Cox, director of GMC Software Technology, discusses unified communication strategies.

In an effort to assist its producers in managing their pipelines and communicating with carriers, one agency implemented enterprise social networking tools.

By its nature, the military requires its personnel to be constantly on the move, and USAA seeks to move just as quickly-if not faster-with its mobile offerings.

As rule makers finalize the Dodd-Frank Act behind closed doors, insurers fear they will suffer collateral damage.

With the dollar falling and global capital markets still uncertain, dealing with financial risk is becoming tougher for life insurers.

Insurers need to figure out how to use new collaboration tools.

Insurance business process outsourcing market blossoms; driving costs out of the claims process.

FCCI chooses Sword Insurance Portal; Physicians Mutual selects InsPro Enterprise.

Does this mean that our technology providers have emerged from the economic sweat lodge and are now gathered around the tribal fires chanting “Kumbaya” for your benefit? Probably not.

Witnesses tell House committee that cross-state sales would reduce the number of uninsured.

As the insurance industry continues to recover from an ailing economy, the focus on life insurers’ overall financial health has been largely a “wait-and-see” one. Unlike property/casualty carriers, whose cash flow is relatively fluid, life insurers’ success is tied largely to superior, sustained financial management.

June 8, 2011 is the last day nominations for Women in Insurance Leadership awards will be accepted.

As the Asian insurance market continues to grow, it faces constraints and opportunities not unlike their North American competitors. A recent report by Boston-based research and consulting firm Celent notes insurers' top three drivers for IT investment in 2011: growing the business, ease of doing business with agents and other distribution channels, and ease of doing business with customers. The report reviews in detail the current business trends facing the market for 2011, and how they are impacting IT investment.

SOA has seen a resurgence, largely because most insurers are contemplating a move to cloud – public, private, or hybrid – and need the supporting infrastructure to make it viable.

At the ACORD Loma Insurance Systems Forum, speakers presented a compelling vision of how the mobility, the cloud and Big Data are set to reshape the industry.

Product designed to allow agents and brokers to personalize customer communications for increased profitability.

The family of device-agnostic mobile insurance apps intended to give agents, insurance pros and policyholders on-the-go access to services from both L&A and P&C systems.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says, in a turnaround from prior rankings, six of 13 small—rather than large—cars earn safety awards.