Based on 2012 financials, A.M. Best lists the largest global insurers by earned premium and total assets.

The increase for 2014 is expected to be driven in part by a rise in data analytics investments, according to the research firm

Fifteen minutes with Robert Macoviak, president of Oyer, Macoviak and Associates Insurance.

In response to consumer confusion about deadlines related to the Affordable Care Act, insurer says it will extend the deadline and accept payment online.

Homeowner property claims also are found to be increasing in frequency, value and suspicion.

Swiss Re declined as much as 2.9 percent; Munich Re fell 0.8 percent.

Insurers strongly support flood reform, but it needs to be implemented in a fashion that doesn’t destroy flood-affected communities.

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Rates Decrease as Much as 25%

For P&C companies, cloud and analytics will define success in the year ahead, says Ernst & Young. But is that all there is?

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The 35.3-percent increase in the industry’s nine-month pretax operating income reflects the improvement in underwriting results across all segments, according to A.M. Best.

U.S. life insurers are poised to outperform in the debt market next year as they invest premiums at higher interest rates, according to CreditSights.

Nearly all classes and regions declined, attributable to abundant capital, strong balance sheets and low CAT losses, Guy Carpenter said.

Profiling tools can quickly process and analyze large data sets and automatically produce a baseline profile, thus replacing the need to run manual queries.

On Dec. 23 alone, the healthcare.gov website supported as many as 83,000 users at the same time.

As the federal health-insurance exchange finds its footing, some state-run exchanges now are struggling with technology delays and low sign-up levels.

Let's face it, big data is dumb.

The extension was announced as healthcare.gov yesterday experienced a single-day record number of visits and consumers were moved into a queuing system deployed when the website approaches 50,000 simultaneous users.

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