ABI Research outlines radical changes to the auto insurance industry in a new report.

Low interest rates continue to weigh on the annuity industry, but sales of deferred income annuities increased 150 percent compared to last year and set a fifth-consecutive record high in Q1 2013, according to the “Beacon Research Fixed Annuity Premium Study.” Overall, income annuity sales grew 1.4 percent year-over-year.

Sometimes, the stars all seem to align and that light can bring things into sharp focus. This year's IASA conference focused on knowledge and innovation. The COO Roundtable topics challenged traditional views and challenged the participants to focus on innovation, change, differentiation and competitiveness. All of this combined to emphasize how we - as an industry - must rethink, transform and innovate the insurance industry in response to the many different changes we are experiencing.

Insurer elects to use Decision Research Corp. software platform designed to integrate with CIG's legacy policy administration system.

Insurance IT execs and service company leaders sound off on what drives companies to hire third parties and how to make the relationship work best.

In MarketScout’s rate barometer, commercial rate growth holds steady for the third month in a row.

Tornado season peaked in the last two weeks of the May, with several tornado-producing storm systems.

Software deals among all insurers show year-over-year growth in 2012 after three years of slight declines, according to a set of new reports from Celent.

A new survey on claims capabilities benchmarks practices that enable insurers to self-diagnose and prioritize investments in technology spending, process reengineering.

To succeed, Thornton May says IT organizations must focus on offering the benefits of technology, rather than buying it.

AIG has previously stated that it would not oppose such a designation; Prudential has 30 days to decide whether it will appeal the decision.

Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company, an insurer of churches and related ministries, has selected Thunderhead.com, a provider of customer experience management solutions, to support all enterprise customer communications activity.

CLM to assist Synerscope in market expansion of a solution designed to assist insurers with workflow analysis, fraud diagnosis and cybersecurity.

While forecasts are calling for more major storm events in 2013, A.M. Best believes the industry as a whole is well-prepared to address potential catastrophic activity because insurers in the space have continually, actively engaged in risk management and taken action to address the growing frequency of such events.

Technology is fueling the shift from a reimbursement model to a prevention/loss-control one for P&C carriers.

Utica will deploy the STG Billing solution on a private cloud in an effort to improve time to production and enable a secure technology infrastructure.

Penetration rates are flat from last year; one-third of businesses said BI solutions were in use by less than 10 percent of employees.

The majority of insurance software sales in Latin America consist of core systems sold to new customers and smaller insurers, according to “Latin American Insurance Software Deal Trends 2013, Life/Annuity/Health and Property/Casualty Editions,” from Celent, an international financial research and consulting firm.

CoreLogic’s 2013 findings reflect a significant increase over 2012 in both the number of total properties at risk, as well as total value.

Laura Martinez brought in to build company’s risk management programs throughout the southeastern United States.