Policy adminstration

Only USAA, GEICO and two other large insurers qualified for a list of longer-term profitable and growing carriers. Leaders also tend toward specialization and use independent agents, according to a report from Conning.

Zurich Insurance is seeking a return on equity, a measure of profitability, of 12 percent to 14 percent in the three years through 2016.

AMI goes live with policy administration, billing and claims solutions for motor vehicle lines of business.

Insurer chooses SIMS Claims to manage claims within its commercial insurance programs, including property, liability, commercial auto and workers’ compensation.

Formerly of Aon Risk Solutions, John Elliott will be responsible for developing and implementing technology strategies.

Aspen Re creates the special-purpose insurer to provide additional collateralized capacity support the reinsurer’s global business.

Bodo Sartorius will also serve as senior EU executive.

Vendor marketing tactics have escalated to a whole new level of insanity.

Peter Gorman has more than 22 years of reinsurance market experience.

Coming to an insurance business near you: predictive analytics.

Zurich CEO predicts a "big impactful cyber event that will occur over the next couple of decades" and says designing policies for attacks that could shut down power systems or stop a city’s transportation network is more than challenging.

Applied Systems to be Acquired by Hellman & Friedman

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Lewis was non-executive chairman of Mayfield Village, Ohio- based Progressive, co-founded by his father Joe Lewis in 1937, and was succeeded by Renwick as CEO in 2000

CEO Glenn Renwick is taking on the additional role of chairman after the death of Peter Lewis, who previously led the board.

Insurers will have eight days, including the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day holidays, to prepare bills for any consumers who signed up on the last day of the newly extended deadline.

The SaaS-delivered software is designed to increase automation and handle all future core administrative needs.

At least 75 percent of CIOs in a recent survey report having a clear understanding of what their businesses need in terms of innovation — now companies need them to be able to act on that understanding.

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California, which has now enrolled almost 80,000 people in health plans, is joining New York, Washington, Minnesota, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island in refusing Obama’s call to ask insurers to extend canceled plans for a year.