Policy adminstration

Aon, Marsh and Willis agree to support endorsement exchange based on ACORD standards.

Agent recruitment up; life sales sees best nine-month start on record

With the acquisition, Infosys BPO will enter the business platform services market for the insurance and financial services sector.

The new model introduces additional hybrid wholesalers in order to ensure advisors have access to all solutions, including annuities, mutual funds and guaranteed income products.

StoneRiver clients can now take advantage of FICO Blaze Advisor to formulate and maintain many of their own business and processing rules without using specialist IT resources.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and U.S. News Media Group released the fifth annual edition of America's Best Health Insurance Plans on USNews.com. Published at the start of open-enrollment season, when Americans nationwide prepare to select their health coverage, the 2009-10 Best Health Insurance Plans guide provides consumers with comprehensive rankings and important detailed information for over 600 commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid health plans.

Designed to manage claims operations for group employee benefits products, the new system replaces an in-house legacy system.

Producers’ status affects unique preferences, and shapes business plans, notes Mintel Compermedia.

What would it look like if Apple's “I'm-a-Mac” commercials were elevated to the enterprise level?

Program administrators and managing general agents are interested in growing through acquisition—in other PAs/MGAs and carriers, according to a recent survey.

IIABA study finds that buyers foregoing savings when purchasing insurance.

Holy temblors, Batman, what will the global warming acolytes do with this one?

A study says a failure to implement service catalogs can blunt process improvements.

While legacy architectures may make things easier on IT departments, they don't necessarily ease headaches for users.

The rhetoric is heating up as Accenture issues clarification, justification statements in response to Guidewire’s strong response to technology patent infringement charges.

Iain Hawker will assume overall responsibility for managing business produced by brokers in the London market and EU.

HP's acquisition of 3Com will speed the convergence of networking and storage in insurance company data centers.

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Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, it's impossible to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. A pair of California-based economists probably recognized this following an attempt to construct an “early warning system” to predict another global financial crisis in the wake of the 2008 catastrophe.