Risk

Arbella Insurance Group upgraded, MassMutual downgraded and Pacific Life’s mortgage-backed securities ratings affirmed. Find out other actions from A.M. Best, Fitch and Moody’s.

Bolstering its ranks with experts from within insurance companies, Novarica announces Martina Conlon, previous senior manager at Arbella Insurance, will join the research and advisory firm.

The company has decided not to sell AIG Star Life Insurance Co. and AIG Edison Life Insurance Co., but the future of Alico Japan remains to be seen.

The reciprocal insurance provider will use Maximum Processing’s Web-based, policy, billing, claims and reinsurance insurance administration system.

The carrier’s establishment of a Risk Engineering Unit and new global energy team will service global energy property/casualty customers in North America.

Congress grants the national flood insurance program another reprieve.

Key processes and underlying technologies enable the insurance industry's drive for enterprise risk management.

Social network analysis can help insurers understand networks often connected to criminal behavior.

To better manage risk, reinsurers are turning to increasingly sophisticated technologies and models.

Hard economic times are invariably busy ones for the foes of insurance fraud. Incorporating more unstructured data, carriers are fine-tuning predictive analytics for fraud detection.

SOA is the way many companies, including insurers, are now choosing to move forward due to its business agility, scalability and return on investment.

S&P contends that because macroeconomic conditions have impacted prime mortgage insurance books, it is placing the ratings for several mortgage insurers, including Genworth and United Guaranty, on CreditWatch with negative implications.

Forrester talked to 70 North American insurers about their hardware and infrastructure investment plans and found that they're very concerned about risks associated with cloud computing and virtualization.

Report says companies are investing in technologies to thwart enterprise risk.

Survey attempts to resolve lagging registration by state insurance regulators.

Despite this year’s challenges, insurance companies will see opportunities in 2010, predicts LIMRA’s CEO.

FINRA's chair Tuesday called for the creation of a single repository of data on all trades on all markets so that the financial industry could be "surveilled by a unified single regulator."

The revised bill, introduced late Tuesday, would give the Federal Reserve Board power to oversee systemically important companies, and beef up a proposed interagency council to advise the central bank.

Zach McCoy, SVP at Kaplan Compliance, offers four recommendations for insurers currently seeking to adopt business process management.

S&P changes HUB’s outlook to negative, while A.M. Best affirms American Physicians Insurance Co.’s financial strength and issuer credit ratings.