Policy adminstration

Sen. Dodd's bill calls for dozens of studies on important topics, including the debate over a federal insurance charter.

Using CloudConnect, a cloud document-viewing program, insurers could view more than 300 file formats while they’re still downloading.

Prakash Shimpi will oversee the enterprisewide risk monitoring and management program for ING's U.S. insurance operations.

Red Hat welcomes insurers to install, test and provide feedback on new version of the operating platform.

The two companies announced a partnership to couple DocuSign’s signature technology with iPipeline’s e-Policy Solution.

With economy leveling, carriers are opening new offices nationwide.

Insurers plotting mobile payment plans would be wise to watch what unfolds as Apple decides the iPhone's future as a mobile payment device.

Narragansett Bay Insurance’s CIO offers tips for insurers on how to best leverage the cloud while minimizing risks.

The advisory organization says this is the industry's first standardized plan for rating homeowners insurance by individual perils.

Business intelligence, analytics and performance management prove less cyclical than other software areas, Gartner says.

Although Democrats and Republicans continue to disagree over whether talks ever really broke down, lawmakers from both sides say they're making progress bridging the gap.

With the health care debate receding, President Obama has stepped up his efforts to aid passage of comprehensive financial services regulatory reform. While most of the reform measures are aimed squarely at banks, the breadth of the proposed reforms may well encompass many activities currently performed by insurers. Indeed, while insurers may have avoided the purview of a proposed consumer financial products regulator, the issue of whether large insurers will have to help fund a bailout mechanism for systemically risky institutions remains an open question.

A report from the Insurance Research Council concludes the current cost shifting means significant costs for the property/casualty insurance industry.

Reaching out to touch someone via the Yellow Pages and other conventional marketing tools has been rendered ineffective as insurers attract customers using LinkedIn, Facebook.

Planned acquisition of compliance specialist firm will pay dividends in an industry sharply focused on complying.

Making its auto insurance application available on Google’s mobile Android smartphones, Progressive sees immediate uptick in Web site traffic.

Industry weighs in as legislators seek long-term fix to the troubled National Flood Insurance Plan.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Pegasystems Inc., a provider of business process management (BPM) software, has acquired Cupertino, Calif.-based Chordiant Software, Inc., a provider of claims management and business acquisition software to the insurance industry.

Blue Shield of California will identify on its Web site physicians in the state who score above average in up to eight quality measures.

While mainframes are still both viable and valuable, perhaps the key to this semantic pretzel is that the needs of the business must come first, and executives shouldn’t rush to adopt new systems simply because they're the latest-and-greatest new tech.