Craig Beattie and Karen Monks join Celent as insurance analysts.

Preparatory work to achieve a business/IT consensus can pay dividends when carriers embark on standards initiatives.

A new report looks at the special accounting considerations insurers must make, and asks whether insurance needs its own accounting model.

Health insurers say legislation is misguided and does not address underlying problems.

Legislation would create powerful new regulator.

Experts say global response necessary for biggest firms.

Bill seeking to amend McCarran-Ferguson Act now focuses solely on health insurers.

Much has changed in the use of standards and technology during the past four years, and the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development, (ACORD), Pearl River, N.Y., intends to confirm how those changes are affecting efficiencies in the insurance industry.

Forrester report finds insurance providers among top industries in ranking of customer service interactions.

Insurers look to new crop of quality mortgages to offset losses on loans made during the bubble years, but dealing with tougher underwriting standards.

The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York says it will not “sit back idly and let the department impose an unnecessary rule that will only serve to add another time-consuming and costly requirement for our members.”

Sen. Bob Corker, like Sen. Shelby, opposes letting consumer protections trump safety and soundness, and objects to creating a separate protection agency.

Priorities through 2012 include a focus on underwriting discipline, risk management and gearing up for Solvency II.

The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America and the Insurance Information Institute were among the organizations urging reform.

Experts say the best way to address systemic risk is by providing the regulatory community with direct access to a database that contains all firms’ networks of financial information.

Lawmakers set to unveil bill that will strip some insurers of protections enjoyed under McCarran–Ferguson Act.

Both federal and state governments are looking to crack down on unsafe practices.

A panel of four C-level insurance executives agree: the economic crisis has changed the competitive landscape. Just what they intend to do about it is another matter.

Statements made last week during congressional testimony rekindle debate about insurance regulation.

TARP-driven BI discourages behavior that focuses on short-term results at the expense of value creation and innovation in the long run.