Developed using Silanis' e-SignLive technology, paperless applications are intended to make enrollment processing easier for plan participants, policy owners, brokers and carriers.

The U.S. lawmaker who wrote a Dodd-Frank Act provision that imposes bank-like capital standards on the insurance industry introduced legislation to ease the requirements.

More than half of Chicagoland drivers drive fewer than 10,000 miles per year, insurer says; fuel costs and heavy traffic discourage driving.

Rates in aggregate have increased for three consecutive years, according to Towers Watson, but have slowed.

The organization, U.S. Mortgage Insurers, will work to ensure Congress considers the industry's interests in federal legislation to shrink taxpayer risk in the housing market.

Insurance companies will urge U.S. lawmakers today to stop the Federal Reserve from imposing bank-like capital standards on their industry.

Insurer plans to remove management layers between the headquarters and the individual business units.

The data deluge presents many challenges, from the purely technical to process- and change-management issues to outright cultural and sociological impacts.

Senate leaders are seeking agreement to quickly pass a House flood-insurance bill to avert steep premium increases for property owners in coastal states.

In 2012, PIP claims reached an annualized $14,207 per claimant, Insurance Research Council says, despite decreasing severity of injuries.

Lawmakers will hold their first hearing Tuesday on an issue that has largely mystified regulators: how to craft capital rules for insurance companies.

Document and content management is accelerating the insurer’s ability pay medical bills, shorten claim cycles and distribute information internally and externally.

During a unique gathering of data-analytics leaders, new solutions began emerging to vexing privacy, talent, organizational and frontline-adoption challenges.

U.S. Health Insurance Regulator says the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov had nothing to do with his decision to leave, and no one encouraged him to leave.

Two computer science students from the University of St. Andrews in the U.K. attempt to pin down a definition of big data.

All companies should have adequate controls that minimize points of entry to their private information.

The ticker tape, invented by Thomas Edison at the age of 22, should have been a sign to all other industries. Investors would do anything to keep information and money flowing…including keeping their technology up to date. One would think that an insurer’s desire to reduce risk and hold onto reserves would also steer them down the road toward cutting-edge information technologies.

Expanded advertising launches, impending deadlines and possible penalties are expected to prompt a spike in enrollment.

Suite of predictive models offers insurers the opportunity to score driving behavior across multiple vehicles and vehicle usage patterns across multiple drivers, LexisNexis said.

Health care, finance and insurance are among the top five industries driving demand, according to Burning Glass Technologies; average advertised salary: $94,000.