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New Celent report says insurers are making slow, but steady progress remaking their core systems.

With the fresh spring breeze may come a breath of fresh air forThe Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., which this week reported a first-quarter profit and improved investment results. This is particularly good news for the insurer, which earlier this month repaid $3.4 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Funds.

Chubb seeks to facilitate discussion on emerging class of risks.

How the top six bank life programs make it work.

NAIFA adopts policy opposing stranger-originated annuities.

For insurers like SafeAuto that heavily rely on online consumer engagement, robust application uptime and performance means the difference been competitive edge and sure trouble.

Insurers should keep apprised of Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook's latest developments, as they could have profound effects on the business.

Social media outlets are hot marketing tools—and dangerous security risks. What’s an insurer to do?

Tealeaf 8 is designed to measure Web site experience in real-time by identifying patterns of behavior that signify customer struggle.

The Qatar-based reinsurer signed a three-year contract with RMS to manage earthquake risk in Asia.

XML-based Thunderhead NOW is designed to simplify the process of making changes to data, eliminating the need for IT involvement.

The financial services provider named managers to lead new offices in California, Argentina and Brazil.

Despite failure to reach a bipartisan deal, Republicans and Democrats unanimously agreed to allow the debate to move forward on the Senate floor.

But the logjam may allow a full debate to proceed.

The solutions provider adds P&C insurance software provider Harcase Software.

Gartner analysts predict that 95% of organizations will support a blended approach to enterprise architecture by 2015.

AIG is continuing to repay its debt to the federal government, but much of the progress reflects the numerous exchanges of debt that AIG owed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Revolving Credit Facility.

Perhaps this isn't surprising, as smaller firms have a lot more to lose if they have fraudulent accounts in their midst.

American Association of Insurance Services data center is designed to allow member companies access to its traditional premium and loss data, plus geographic, demographic, weather, crime and other types of data collected from public and private sources.

Insurers’ self-service strategies should be about bringing together process management and customer experience management.