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AHIP CEO Karen Ignagni voices serious concerns over accountable care organizations, essential benefits and exchanges.

Portal designed to reduce insurer risk, costs by boosting completion rates and data accuracy.

Kurt Hines to assume newly-created position that targets the insurer’s commercial lines strategic growth.

Allianz, Allstate, Assurant, SCOR and XL Ltd. all receive updates.

John Glomb ascends to the position from his previous role as SVP of underwriting.

A new Gartner report clarifies master data management misconceptions and definitions.

As he continues to battle cancer, American International Group’s Robert Benmosche says he will stay on as chief executive until 2012. In a statement, Benmosche, who says he is responding very well to “aggressive chemotherapy,” said he expects to work another 12 to 18 months before retiring. Benmosche took the helm at AIG in August 2009 as the company began selling assets to repay the U.S. government for $182.3 billion in assistance in received in 2008, including $40 billion from Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Insurers may be able to learn from banks platform integration problems.

The finance and insurance industries reported the strongest plans to hire, followed by industries producing goods.

While many vendor calls to insurance execs aren't immediately valuable, maintaining an inward-facing world view and ignoring what's happening in the industry can be detrimental.

A new report says smartphone users are more likely than PC users to fall victim to phishing and providing confidential information.

While the movie portrays Facebook as a platform born of a grudge by a jilted, love-struck student, insurers are taking the site very seriously.

Sales collaboration platform reaches 20,000 participants; company launches InsiderConnect.

Independent agents are the most-promising channel, while career agents the highest-rated, according to ICMG survey.

Insurance technologists must articulate the case for change when replacing core systems.

Earthquakes and climate change-related events among the 373 disasters recorded last year, says the United Nations.

Exhaustively and expensively produced, the Jeopardy-playing computer has jaded observers proclaiming a new, powerful, constructive digital interactivity.

The study found that many investors are confused about the roles of brokers and advisors, and are unsure of their protections when they receive advice.

The new policy features a building annual maximum benefit, and extended dependent and issue ages.

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