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.

Putting analytics in the hands of decision-makers up and down the line helps affect positive and profitable changes for the business as situations change.

Improved productivity, cost savings and simplified work processes are making enterprise mobility increasingly important for insurers’ technologically inclined workforce. In a recent survey of top business leaders, IT experts and mobile developers, Pyxis Mobile, a mobile application platform provider, found that companies are expanding beyond just mobile applications for field services and sales people, to empower all employees.

P&C insurers still aren’t taking advantage of customer data that already exists within their organizations.

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.

The industry lost 5,700 positions from August to September.

Recession has cut expectations, but innovation and cloud interest should keep market steady, according to IDC study.

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.

Survey sees 64% of execs predicting the recovery will not occur until 2012 or later.

Identity technology expected to underpin customer and business partner access control across the company's U.K. websites.

BindExpress Suite to allow immediate processing for independent agents.

Online offering includes breaking news and ratings updates as they're released by the major ratings agencies.

MainSource sold its P&C and health insurance books to Encore Insurance Group.

Survey finds ignorance of terms, suspicion of payout, slowing sales Down Under.