Thanks largely to increased regulation, insurers will demand innovation, transparency and stability from sourcing providers.

SAS co-founder & CEO Jim Goodnight reflects on the promise and challenges surrounding business analytics technology.

Almost one-third of Brits believe that it's acceptable to commit home insurance fraud, a survey finds.

Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting 4.1, an adaptive enterprise solution for rating and underwriting rules management. The latest release includes new features that are designed to support greater flexibility, adaptability and productivity for insurers, agents and underwriters, including the ability to conduct mobile rating.

The proposed spending cuts would “frustrate” the ability of the SEC to fulfill its expansive new mandates under the act.

AHIP CEO Karen Ignagni voices serious concerns over accountable care organizations, essential benefits and exchanges.

Portal designed to reduce insurer risk, costs by boosting completion rates and data accuracy.

Allianz, Allstate, Assurant, SCOR and XL Ltd. all receive updates.

A new Gartner report clarifies master data management misconceptions and definitions.

As he continues to battle cancer, American International Group’s Robert Benmosche says he will stay on as chief executive until 2012. In a statement, Benmosche, who says he is responding very well to “aggressive chemotherapy,” said he expects to work another 12 to 18 months before retiring. Benmosche took the helm at AIG in August 2009 as the company began selling assets to repay the U.S. government for $182.3 billion in assistance in received in 2008, including $40 billion from Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Insurers may be able to learn from banks platform integration problems.

The finance and insurance industries reported the strongest plans to hire, followed by industries producing goods.

New data from RIMS shows overcapacity still depressing premiums.

A bomb exploded in Moscow’s largest airport, Domodedovo, this morning, reportedly killing 35 people and injuring more than 180. The blast is believed to be the work of a lone suicide bomber terrorist, who detonated 15lbs of explosives inside the arrivals hall, an unsecured area that allows people to enter freely to meet passengers.

A new report says smartphone users are more likely than PC users to fall victim to phishing and providing confidential information.

Sales collaboration platform reaches 20,000 participants; company launches InsiderConnect.

Independent agents are the most-promising channel, while career agents the highest-rated, according to ICMG survey.

Insurance technologists must articulate the case for change when replacing core systems.

Earthquakes and climate change-related events among the 373 disasters recorded last year, says the United Nations.

Exhaustively and expensively produced, the Jeopardy-playing computer has jaded observers proclaiming a new, powerful, constructive digital interactivity.