Insurance aggregation platform looks to Informatica Cloud to accelerate process automation.

Allstate and CNA report net income increases; MetLife profits plummet from derivatives losses; two other insurers announce results.

When "modern era" computer systems were developed decades ago, many didn't realize that they would still be running insurers' business in the 21st Century. Developers hardly foresaw what was to come. To compete today, insurers have two options: patch or replace. Well there is a third … obsolescence.

Specialty insurer makes purchase in an attempt to improve claims results by supplementing its auto direct repair program.

The vast majority of financial institutions do not believe their data technology is very effective, according to a global risk survey from Deloitte.

Most other regions declined, as did the Marsh Risk Management Global Insurance Index, Marsh said.

Front-end systems and devices for customer engagement are getting more sophisticated, but back-end integration challenges are preventing insurers from taking advantage of them, survey shows.

Among life/annuity insurers, distribution is an area increasingly attractive for analytics investments. More than half of life/annuity insurers surveyed by Strategy Meets Action say they're currently investing in analytics technology to supplement distribution.

AIG and Principal are making moves to limit their proprietary trading and investments, attempting to appease regulators just as MetLife, The Hartford and Allstate have done before them.

The technology, legal framework and customer expectations have reached a point where carriers need to implement e-signature capabilities, according to Novarica.

By a wide margin, California led in luxury car thefts from 2009 to 2012, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

Steven Zabel, former SVP of long-term care insurance, CFO of insurance products and SVP of audit for Genworth, will oversee Unum's enterprise risk management program.

The number of legacy systems in the P&C space continues to decrease. However, the overall success rate of the replacement projects remains relatively low, according to a recent SMA report.

Application intended to automate policy-, billing- and claims-administration functions for auto insurer.

The midsize specialty insurer built a unified agent portal that also serves its underwriters.

U.S. pension funds have been key in boosting the global reinsurance market’s capital base and helped reinsurers pay insurer claims arising from major disasters such as 2011’s earthquake in Japan and 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, according to the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Insured Rating designed to enable web access to rating software for the insurer's managing general agents.

Lack of confidence comes from not understanding their company’s exposure to operational, regulatory/compliance or financial risk, according to recent survey results.

FAST's business processing suite designed to include application entry, case management and underwriting software.

Costs behind insuring the renewable energy industry could spike behind a shift to wind energy, according to a new report.