Policy adminstration

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.

Reports indicate that revenue support is not going to come from a hardening market.

What do we do when the technology environment changes too quickly for us to respond to it? Quantum physics may provide an answer or two.

Insurance groups squabble during senate hearings on the repeal of the McCarran Ferguson Act.

Insurers are betting on DWD laws that will prohibit drivers from using cell phones while driving, but a new study says that while laws may not matter, technology might.

A recent Celent report examines insurance technology trends, including cloud computing, which the firm says has confused the industry.

Forrester polled 65 insurance IT decision-makers about their infrastructure priorities for 2010, and 48% said extending the life of their hardware was of critical importance.

With implementation, the marketplace will have a single set of data communication standards designed to create cost-effective delivery mechanisms and improve the products and services for policyholders.

Insurers must encrypt or mask sensitive data that leaves production environments regardless of its destination.

Despite the gloomy economic picture, many insurers are still upgrading or replacing policy admin systems but, once done, place more responsibility in the hands of business users than IT.

The partnership is intended to to reduce redundant work and costs by combining both technology and information at key workflow steps of the insurance transaction process.