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ING U.S. Inc. promotes CRO Smith to CEO of the insurance unit as Butch Britton retires.

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association will form a combined provider network with Bupa that will include more than 11,500 hospitals in more than 190 countries.

Weill, who helped engineer the 1998 merger of insurer Travelers Group and Citicorp, was named chairman of the board at Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd., which runs the reinsurer formerly run by hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen.

AFG to add specialist workers’ compensation carrier with market share in the Southeast.

In a stabilizing economy and armed with strong capital positions, P&C insurers should increase their focus on establishing competitive advantage through innovation, according to Deloitte.

RSA Ireland CFO Rory O’Connor and Claims Director Peter Burke were dismissed yesterday, the London-based insurer said in a statement today.

The best insurers will achieve competitive advantage by developing the judgment and decision-making capabilities of their knowledge workers.

Exigen's suite of core systems is intended to improve operational efficiency, product distribution management and customer service.

Despite higher administrative costs and uncertainty associated with HIX rollouts, A.M. Best forecasts top-line growth of as much as 5 percent.

Enough talk about cloud and big data analytics — insurers want to see execution.

Since last year, new skills and new thinking are more urgent than ever, even as budgets and technology needs remain static.

Insurance AO Activity Doubles

Insured losses declined to about $31 billion, the Munich-based company said today. That compares with $65 billion reported for 2012.

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Global insurers have failed to take action and embrace the digital world, but survey results show that, from a budgeting level, the commitment is lacking.

Insurers, including Nationwide, CNA and MetLife, are leveraging a growing number of data sources and applying high-performance analytics to help detect patterns of fraud as early as possible.

While document management systems continue to house the industry's essential business information, many large insurers are trying to leverage the data contained in a host of new media types to help boost the business.

Collaborative and social technologies are radically changing not only interactions with consumers, but the ways in which internal processes can be conducted as well.

"Uncertainty" sums up the regulatory environment for insurers in all lines in 2014.

As insurers undertake technology transformations, more are finding the competition for IT talent to be fierce.