Policy adminstration

"We see the entire country as the real opportunity here," notes Rodney Dillman, president of MassMutual International LLC.

Life insurer now has no long-term debt maturities until 2011.

Parts of the plan, including giving the Fed sole authority to police risks to the financial system, eliminating the thrift and specialty charters and scaling back national banks' preemption powers, are likely to prove too ambitious to succeed.

Witnesses say size should not be the sole consideration when determining which enterprises pose a threat to the economy as a whole.

Like their insurance carrier customers, Forrester research shows insurance application vendors also are looking to expand into new geographic markets.

Citing states’ history of consumer protection and market stability, the state-based insurance regulatory system is one of critical checks and balances, says Illinois Insurance Director.

Kevin Smith will be responsible for building out the company's property product lines nationwide.

Amount sufficient, says Conning Research, but long-tail claims are now thinning reserves.

Pointing to “gaps and weaknesses” in the supervision and regulation of financial firms, AIG is identified as the government’s most visible example of a firm that escaped the “strictures” of serious holding company regulation.

Starting a service-oriented architecture project requires a push from the business side; IT can’t do it alone.

A.M. Best and Fitch Ratings announce a number of changes, including an affirmation of Fidelity Investment Life Insurance and Pacific Life, and a downgrade of Highmark Inc.

Willis Group Holdings chairman and CEO says the insurance industry can take advantage of the need for greater transparency in business transactions resulting from the financial crisis.

While many insurance companies have been raising prices on and adding restrictions to their variable annuity offerings, John Hancock's new product is positioned to compete against mutual funds.

ACORD LOMA and IASA will be a scant 10 days apart, but will marketing budgets support attendance at both?

The insurer joins The Hartford as a participant in the TARP program, and will sell its UK-based life insurance business to SLF of Canada UK Limited.

The Group of North American Insurance Enterprises believes changes to the Available for Sale (AFS) classification of investments could harm insurers' ability to present an accurate representation of an insurance company’s financial condition or performance.

A Towers Perrin survey reveals property/casualty insurance prices have gone down less than 1% in that time span.

Health insurer’s Anthem Life & Disability Insurance division to manage sales efforts

Services are designed to help insurers define improvements in operational practices around risk management.

Scalable software is designed to enhance customer service.