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NAMIC’s Jimi Grande weighs in on what financial reform legislation and the coming elections mean for the insurance industry.

Integro will be positioned to add reinsurance brokerage services in United States.

Legal requirements drive tech product development and data management policies.

Company will cut 1,500 – 1,800 jobs as it digests Hewitt acquisition.

S&P revises its outlook on Swiss Re, A.M Best affirms The Hartford Steam Boiler Group. Moody’s downgrades AXA UK Life and agencies react to Everest Re’s executive leadership announcement.

Japanese typhoons, changing economic conditions in China and earthquakes in Seoul could cause Supercat-sized insured losses, says Aon Benfield.

Fraud incidents are on a downward slope, returning to reporting figures from two years ago, according to the Quarterly Corporate Fraud Index, which captures fraud incident activity from more than 1,000 organizations and 12 million employees worldwide.

Case challenges insurer’s ability to consider gender of driver when writing auto coverage.

Insurers looking to get into the mobile payment game may want to heed this unfortunate reality.

Against the backdrop of dire economic predictions, insurers are being told to rethink IT as it applies to corporate growth objectives and strategies.

Pending regulatory requirements and tight capital markets are altering the captive insurance market in Europe in numerous ways, notes A.M. Best report

The primary conflict stems from different views of the merger.

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The very nature of data security is one couched in discretion: As a matter of routine, processes are classified, and specialists in this area rarely share their company’s state secrets.

High-powered tech execs have ideas, some of which are actually good.

Reuters reports that standards board may opt to modify mark-to-market proposal.

Given the emergence of social networks, insurers should consider how the data they provide on individuals is being used—both in their companies and by others.

Two years after the height of the financial crisis, intervention averted economic catastrophe and saved other life insurers, says report.

Experts offer competing visions on what it takes to make insurance companies thrive.



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