Members of Congress came out swinging Wednesday at a committee hearing with top insurers called as witnesses to determine whom of the more than 8 million Obamacare enrollees have paid their first month’s premium.

As many as 90 percent of WellPoint customers have paid their first premium by its due date; for Aetna, the payment is in the low to mid-80 percent range.

As these trends evolve into standard practice, experts expect a greater awareness of the value of data.

Offering is designed to helps carriers use cloud computing to run a claims application for as low as $10,000 per month without any lead time to deploy.

Through use of the app, the insurer expects to enable marketing representatives to view a complete picture of agency performance, and stay current through real-time updates and alerts.

What kind of impact has predictive modeling had on profitability, loss ratio and rate accuracy?

The evolution of customer communications helps forge stronger ties between insurers and clients.

Preparedness is the only weapon against increasingly sophisticated security challenges.

Significant hurdles have confronted insurers seeking to launch usage-based insurance programs, including a lack of standardization and the threat of patent infringement litigation. But Progressive's recent patent setbacks and ACORD's new data standards could prompt new programs.

For carriers, cloud computing offers a way to enhance and accelerate communications with agents, and agencies can benefit from better access, ease of use and efficiency gains.

The insurer will revamp five fraud-detection models and extend its relationship with SAS for two more years.

Claim frequency dropped for privately owned vehicles, according to an analysis from Ron Actuarial Intelligence, and can reduce insurance premiums and increases revenues.

First-quarter profit fell 27 percent as claims costs climbed at the property/casualty business.

Float from insurance units including Geico has provided CEO Warren Buffett with funds to amass the largest equity stakes in companies including Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo and American Express.

The data is in: cloud is starting to make a dent in enterprise competitiveness.

Peter Hahn, formerly of McKinsey, now is responsible for improving business decisions and risk insights.

Internet connected devices will drive the value of data to consumers; mobile devices will enable continuous data collection; and sensors will drive finer grained collection of data across common processes. Long-term, these will elevate the awareness about the value of data.

Research by McKinsey and the World Economic Forum points to a widening range of technology vulnerabilities and potentially huge losses in value tied to innovation.

There's a lot of interest in creating CDO positions, but what will be their main areas of responsibility?

How many individuals and families that selected a health plan in the federally facilitated health insurance marketplace have paid their first month’s premium? Depends on whom you ask.