While mobile applications are seemingly everywhere, insurers – especially midsize and small ones – have been slow to adopt the technology. But some vendors now offer off-the-shelf products and services to push the technology and resulting savings to smaller insurers.

Matthew Eagle will be responsible for providing thought and resource leadership across the EMEA and AsiaPac regions and developing catastrophe modeling and analytics propositions.

Allstate and XL Group are among the growing number of insurers with executive teams devoted to cleaning and organizing data to facilitate enterprise analytics initiatives.

Supported by the Accenture Cloud Platform and using Microsoft Azure, the suite is intended to enhance underwriting effectiveness, reduce loss costs, improve customer retention and drive profitable growth.

Progressive telematics manager Dave Pratt walks INN through the company's new approach to acquiring Snapshot customers.

Mobile devices and apps provide immediate access to contextually relevant information, speed tasks and increase productivity by putting tools and other problem-solving capabilities into their users’ hands.

Obama signed an executive order intended to encourage companies to share information on Internet threats with one another and create a framework to help the private sector turn over data to federal agencies investigating data breaches.

Four tips on how to handle system users who are reluctant or openly resistant to change.

The swap is part of an effort to upgrade technology that also includes new e-mail software and stronger security.

The global reinsurer is moving from a homegrown system with BlackBerry phones to a MobileIron offering with Windows phones and a bring-your-own-device option.

New Software for Agent Portal Offering is expected to help the carrier modernize its technology.

The affected consumers are those who have not been able to prove their U.S. citizenship, the government says.

However, research from the New York Department of Financial Services found that actual data loss is not a common outcome of compromised systems.

Blue Yonder, founded in 2008, claims it has assembled the largest team of top data scientists in Europe. Here’s a peek inside the company’s Karlsruhe, Germany headquarters – which combines people, process, and plenty of data center horsepower.

The CEO has to convince investors that the company has figured out the size of the hole at the long-term care coverage business, and that the gap won’t keep growing.

Survey by Employers Holdings shows that companies need to create healthier environments.

All of Agile’s principal leadership now has moved into the Majesco organization.

While brokers historically have owned the customer relationship, satisfaction rises when insurers are involved during service interactions, according to a study from J.D. Power.

The implementation began with a new customer documents communication strategy and the elimination of CSE’s internal print and mail operation.

Insurers now can buy Driveway’s technology backed by Pinnacle’s rating, actuarial and regulatory guidance and can choose technology, consulting and scoring individually, or as a coordinated package.