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As more and more consumers use comparison-shopping sites, a major question arises for carriers and agents: Are online comparison shoppers really good customers for your book of business?

The insurance analyst and consulting firm adds Mark Breading and Mary Ann Garwood, both formerly of IBM.

The solution, NexJ Contact for Finance, is expected to be rolled out to Wells Fargo Advisors’ entire population of advisors and support staff across all distribution channels.

MVP Health Care will use McKesson Corp.'s webVisit software to reimburse its network of physicians for Web-based consultations with patients covered through most of its benefit plans.

Using banks as a distribution channel may be a way for life insurers to tap into the middle-income market.

The product, intended for U.S. life and annuity enterprises, combines CSC's insurance data model with Towers Perrin's consulting experience and financial modeling software.

AHIP's last-second change of heart exposes it to retribution.

We already know the self-service ethic is a winning approach for many insurers, so why not self-service IT?

What would BI apps look like if they weren't designed around the constraints of relational databases?

AmTrust will initially invest approximately $42.5 million based on American Capital's acquisition of GMAC Financial Services' U.S. consumer property/casualty insurance business.

The insurer offers its customers in the education industry a new tool to help retirement planning.

The alliance fuses MajescoMastek's STG Suite with FirstBest UMS to help insurance carriers improve agent and underwriter efficiencies.

With the goal of promoting financial stability among financially interdependent institutions, the partners will study the need and optimal design of a systemic risk regulator.

A survey from LowerMyBills.com reveals that consumers shopping for auto insurance seek lower premiums, but many don’t know how to do so.

Conseco receives a boost from ratings agencies but Michigan Blues slide.

Innovation Group, a global provider of enterprise software and business process outsourcing solutions to the property and casualty insurance industry, announced that super regional insurance carrier The Main Street America Group has completed its rollout of Innovation Group’s Innovation Auto offering. Already in production with Innovation Group’s FNOL solution, Main Street America has successfully deployed Innovation Auto throughout all of its regions.

DocuSign, a provider of on-demand electronic signature solutions, announced the general availability of its DocuSign Version 9 Fall Release. This release features several new capabilities, including ‘Designed for Mobile’ signing support for Apple Inc. iPhone and Research In Motion BlackBerry devices to make it faster and easier for customers to complete transactions while on the go. DocuSign's service is designed to enable businesses of all sizes to completely replace manual paper-based transactions with high-speed secure electronic transactions that happen faster, cost less and are more secure.

House bill would regulate OTC derivatives marketplace

Bob Goldberg will oversee the insurer’s claims, life, financial and billing systems.

The real issue buried behind the Justice Department's investigation of IBM is not the hardware monopoly, but the fact that many companies have mission-critical systems running on these mainframes; systems in which they have invested too much money to move.