Policy adminstration

Insurers would be wise to keep tabs on addressable television advertising, which uses financial and cable company data to generate targeted TV commercials.

The Trianz-Vee alliance will offer BPO services primarily in financial accounting and transaction processing to customers worldwide.

Swiss Re says the calm hurricane season for 2009 contributes to the $26-billion decline from 2008.

Internet-related crime is a fact of life, but can we afford to simply write it off and forget about it?

Insurer sought help with an enterprise-level system to support the build-out of a centralized, shared finance department.

The global specialty insurer appointed Paul Lafferty as VP, property claims manager for the United States.

Group disability insurance adds disability rider to permanent life insurance policies for small business owners.

Unique-to-Louisiana law requires insurers to continue homeowners’ coverage even if defective drywall constitutes a “material change in the risk,” as long as the homeowner reports the issue to the insurer.

Although still embroiled in controversy, the organization is quickly moving forward on the methodology regulators will follow in evaluating insurers’ risk-based capital requirements.

A new report says recent software consolidation activity will accelerate, and insurers should protect themselves through contractual means, including demanding base code escrow and service level guarantees that survive change of control.

Online insurance quoting system designed to enable end-to-end trace and analysis of transactions to pinpoint problems as they move through application topologies across the network.

SNL Financial data shows that while reported losses fell 15.7% year-over-year, heightened declines in earned premiums written kept profitability modest.

The Healthcare Payments Automation Council is designed to provide industry stakeholders with a forum for information, networking and advocacy in health care payments automation.

Lawmakers still struggling to determine the best path to oversee systemically important financial companies.

Eliminating workarounds, or "swamps," can pay great dividends for insurers.

Experts say the answer might be a hybrid cloud and on-site computing model.

Insurer Health Net says a hard drive disappeared containing the protected health information of 1.5 million covered members.

A.M. Best affirms the FSR of Allstate, while Fitch Ratings upgrades ING subsidiary Lion Connecticut Holdings' guaranteed, senior unsecured debt ratings.

In this age of tight markets and a floundering economy, some are suggesting that carriers take all their sales in-house, but will that happen?

Carriers are sending more than 41,000 claims download transactions per month using IVANS communications platform.