Policy adminstration

INN celebrated its Women in Insurance Leadership award winners at a celebration in Chicago on October 20 and 21.

The latest version of ISCS’ SurePower Innovation includes a new web service portal, updated payment capabilities, a multi-state policy capability, usability features, and more.

Product includes functionality for CRM, policy and claims admin, document management, reporting, audit, workflow, quoting, accounting, reinsurance, client management, billing, rating and underwriting services.

Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company and Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company have consolidated systems to streamline processes, improve service and ensure compliance.

The insurance software is helping Prestige lower costs associated with claim adjudicating services for automobile extended warranty products.

Insurer and technology provider to partner on initiatives to improve customer service, increase operational efficiency and maximize compliance.

Budgets for IT operational spending in the coming year will look better than the previous four years, but only by a bit, according to a new Computer Economics study.

The nominees, selected by a panel of insurance IT executives, will be announced at the 2015 Novarica Council Meeting in April.

Big data and analytics are taking the P&C sector by storm. Strategy Meets Action’s report shows which tools and techniques are getting the most traction.

Health plan will provide employers with near real-time insights and recommendations.

To achieve meaningful benefits, first address the business priorities of the combined entity before merging technologies and systems.

Armed with analytics, predictive modeling and big data, insurers like CNA are moving to take on application fraud.

For insurers, the lesson is clear: improve the user experience by streamlining processes, or consumers will simply walk away.

Insurers are facing a sea change as technology increasingly permeates consumer culture, creating more sophisticated expectations (see part 1), and those expectations are just one of several factors driving the demand for talent in the insurance industry.Jeff Rieder, partner and head of Ward Group, an operational consulting firm and provider of benchmarking and best practices studies for insurance companies, met with INN to discuss the optimism in the industry, the many factors driving the demand for talent, employment numbers, and some of the reasons insurers are having difficulty recruiting.

EMC Insurance’s Sara Richards explains the background and benefits of using the new SignOn Once push standard.

Guidewire technology aims to help deliver flexibility, enhance customer service and lower IT costs.

New health plans from insurer aim to help improve quality and affordability for federal employees and retirees.

Insurers are coming to grips with security concerns about the cloud as they gain more familiarity with the technology and institute new best practices.

Insurers are facing a sea change as technology increasingly permeates consumer culture, creating more sophisticated expectations.Jeff Rieder, partner and head of Ward Group, an operational consulting firm and provider of benchmarking and best practices studies for insurance companies, met with INN to discuss the skill sets that forward-thinking insurers need to recruit and cultivate to respond to the changing environment and capitalize on emerging opportunities.This is the first of a two part series.

This year’s Women in Insurance Leadership award winners are world-class innovators par excellence.