Employers with fewer than 100 workers won’t have to provide health insurance until 2016 under Obamacare, as the administration said it would again delay a key requirement of the health law.

The Bright Choices Exchange is designed to offer ancillary benefits and access to mid-sized and large employers nationwide.

Pet insurance has been the fastest growing category in insurance sales despite the squeeze on household incomes.

The sales of life/annuity policy administration systems in North America will continue at a slow pace for the next few years, the research and advisory firm predicts.

A survey of financial services executives finds companies investing in technology, people and processes, yet readiness levels are low and stress levels are high.

Insurance CEOs are overwhelmingly optimistic about growth and hiring, but more than half are concerned about their ability to manage technological change and new market entrants, according to survey.

Strategy Meets Action Founder Deb Smallwood discusses the current landscape of cloud computing, opportunities and challenges that come with it and action items for insurers.Throughout January and February, Smallwood details each of SMAs five next-generation technologies — analytics and big data, mobile technologies, collaboration technologies, cloud computing and telematics.To find out how the research and consulting firm came to these five, click here. No. 1: Analytics and Big DataNo. 2: Mobile TechnologiesNo. 3. CollaborationCheck back next week for next-gen technology No. 5: Telematics.

Mark Bertolini tells investors health plans allowed to continue in 2014 though they don’t comply with new Obamacare rules may be extended for as long as three years.

Accenture survey finds that $400 billion in insurance premiums could change hands within the industry over the next 12 months.

Moderation trend continues, MarketScout says.

As Cigna this week became one of the first insurers to announce its own online marketplace — amid countless others created by brokers, consultants and tech firms — some say the definition of this concept has become muddied.

Title insurer's CEO says Interthinx will help it offer real estate customers "further assurances in areas that present risk, including fraud, identity and income validation, collateral adequacy and compliance."

The insurers’ strategy is an unexpected consequence as the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, kicks into gear.

A Frost & Sullivan report finds that while merger activity declined in deal volume in 2013, the average transaction value went up.

APIs are the new big thing for technology innovation, and they literally are everywhere.

Technological advances are generating vast new sources of data that can assist carriers with better decision-making.

SurePower Innovation intended to lessen risk for P&C companies writing personal, commercial and specialty lines.

Most IT security practitioners are either unable or unsure of how to conduct e-discovery analysis on mobile devices, survey finds.

Insurer reaffirms its 2014 forecast citing better-than-expected Medicare membership growth.

Net income rose to $675 million, or $1.45 a share, from $581 million, or $1.24, a year earlier.