Policy adminstration

Asian insurance CIOs tend to be very tech-aware, and are actively pursuing process automation.

Pundits and analysts are having a field day with social media for insurance, but is it really that big of a deal?

The industry released almost $20 billion in reserves in 2009, according to a Conning study.

New Fitch report says P&C sector financial performance impressive considering the challenges of past 10 years.

EWI Risk Services says the long-term potential impact of the disaster on the D&O market is in the range of $250 to $500 million.

Results of vendor-sponsored survey show decreased collaboration and e-discovery investment since 2009.

The committee still has to tackle issues surrounding derivatives oversight, consumer protection, interchange fee regulation and risk retention.

The addition of members from Allianz, New York Life, ING, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo marks the one-year anniversary of Insured Retirement Institute’s re-branding initiative.

Mitchell’s WorkCenter is designed to provide assignment, repairable estimating, total loss valuation, review/audit, repair management and reporting.

Celent report says Asian insurers will spend 1% to 3% of premium on IT in 2010.

New preparedness standards for private sector draw praise from risk managers.

Solution designed to allow insurance customers to pay bills, download ID cards, report claims and file endorsements with attachments.

ISCS' SurePower Innovation handles critical business processes, including policy, claims, underwriting, billing and reinsurance for all lines of commercial, personal and specialty insurance business.

The committee agreed to scale back a provision that would eliminate the use of trust-preferred securities as Tier 1 capital.

To reduce costs, carriers employed a variety of methods from increasing the employee portion of the premium to increasing deductible levels.

Not treating data quality as an IT issue and taking critical enterprise info out of employees' heads are two of the keys.

Roger Crandall, who has been president and CEO since the beginning of the year, will replace Stuart Reese as board chairman at the end of the year.

Lapses in insurance-related programs persist as legislators wrangle.

Gartner lists best practices for re-evaluating software-as-a-service in your organization.

The economic recovery horses are at the starting gate, but when will the race begin, and when do we plunk down our bets?