Policy adminstration

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?

Quickfill, intended for use with personal lines auto and property and commercial property insurance, is designed to populate results from 34 of ISO’s databases.

Life insurers back annuities legislation in testimony before Committee.

Insurers being swept up in the current iPhone furor may want to watch as mobile banking customers continue to clamor for Android apps that still aren't available.

Moody’s and S&P react to Marsh McLennan’s Mercer subsidiary settlement, and to Lincoln National’s capital plan related to its TARP repayment.

IIABA weighs in on creation of federal insurance regulator as conference committee finalizes details of financial services reform.

Integral, a policy/group management software suite, is designed to support multi-line, multilingual and multi-currency insurance processing.

The iPhone app, part of its Steer Clear program that rewards new drivers with discounts and features a built-in stopwatch to time practice drives.

Acquisition will integrate Web analytic capabilities into WebSphere and across IBM’s products and services, including Cognos, SPSS and vertical frameworks.

AMA members say insurers are making progress, but processing costs are on the rise due to errors, underpaid, overpaid or incorrectly unpaid claims.

Insurer says achieving efficient, green data centers need not be expensive or overwhelming.