Eighty-three percent of P&C insurers indicate that they will increase their spending over the next three years. The top three areas for investments in analytics, according to SMA’s data, “remain the risk-centric areas” of product development, underwriting and claims.

New partnership enables 161,000 service members to earn nationally recognized certifications across a dozen tech professions.

State Farm is beginning to test RightLane, which collects basic information about a person's driving via an Android smartphone.

As national unemployment improved to 7.5 percent last month, growth of IT jobs has fallen from a peak of 11,700 jobs added in January to only 4,600 added in April, according to this month’s IT jobs report from Janco Associates.

Direct-to-consumer auto insurer implementing underwriting and policy administration software first with renewal processing, then with new business.

Directors & officers liability insurance (D&O) and professional liability business is generating accident year underwriting losses for the industry despite recent stability in loss ratios, according to a new segment analysis from Fitch. D&O premium rates were previously lagging the market recovery in the broader commercial lines segment, but pricing trends are now catching up.

Sandy resulted in approximately 1.5 million claims overall, 92 percent of which were completed at four months.

How one insurance company re-created mainframe logic on a Windows/.NET server environment.

Investment income dropped to $4.16 billion from $7.11 billion the previous year earlier.

The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway says he wants to get into commercial insurance — "big time."

A series of measurements can greatly improve processes if you know what data to look for, and what to do with it once its found.

New data from Novarica’s most recent IT roundtable finds that while P&C insurers are focusing on data capabilities, speed to market is a particular point of emphasis for life/health insurers.

Investment Intelligence designed to access data from various sources, including SS&C applications and third-party systems, and deliver analysis to the C-suite.

Allstate, The Hanover, Travelers and five others announce quarterly results.

Four tips from a recent book that provide business executives with everything they need to know when working with analytics.

The tech provider will distribute PilotFish software with and without LifeSuite bundle.

While 98 percent of recently surveyed insurers plan to increase their social media use in 2013, none of the respondents said their social tools are “excellent.”

Veterans of the AIG bailout are now helping ING U.S. prepare for the scheduled sale of as much as $1.54 billion in stock.

By offering access to services on an as-needed basis, cloud computing is cutting costs and gaining popularity in the insurance industry. Now the question is: public or private?

Are insurers slightly ahead of banks when it comes to big data?