The most severe earthquake to hit New Zealand in 80 years seen as the most expensive natural disaster since Hurricane Ike hit the United States in 2008.

Independent financial advisers say that improving efficiency and time management is a goal for 2011, and carriers can help them achieve it.

Organizations have not yet automated many of the data integration and sales analytics operations needed, Ventana says.

Business analytics portfolio gets in-memory, integration and mobile add-ons.

Lawmakers set a series of ambitious deadlines, requiring regulators to complete roughly 170 new rules by July.

Survey finds cloud emerging as new outsourcing platform.

Organizations that transmit or modify protected health information for covered entities now are covered under the HITECH Act’s strengthened provisions of the HIPAA privacy and security rule.

A.M. Best, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's announced ratings updates. The following are some of the most recent:

Companies are concerned about application vulnerabilities, mobile device management.

The company’s edgeConnect user experience platform joins other insurance solutions chosen to provide building blocks designed to help insurers to transform their business processes.

A.M. Best report reveals hopeful signs in the industry’s capital position and liquidity, but warns of interest rate-related risks.

American subsidiary of Japanese insurance giant selects hosted solutions to enter markets in multiple states.

Large sports cars have the highest average collision claims costs and passenger vans have the lowest, notes the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

HP software to help State Auto Group improve policyholder communications.

AXA, ING, Marsh and Swiss Re all released their year-end numbers.

ETran to provide robust, yet flexible, solution to meet needs of Mutual of Omaha.

Benchmark study shows health insurers rank last among 17 industries, including auto, homeowner and life insurers, in customer loyalty.

Amica Mutual, USAA among insurers on J.D. Power and Associates’ list of 40 service champions.

Lincoln Financial fined $600K for failure to protect customer information from public access.

MBIA Inc. and Assured Guaranty Ltd. claim they were tricked by banks into insuring toxic residential mortgage-backed securities.