Consumer demands take center stage as Intact Financial purchases UXP software with the hopes of becoming more agile.

Another report confirms strong quarter for indexed and income annuities.

Cash deal worth $175 million to help MphasiS make gains in U.S. mortgage market.

However, uncertainty surrounds ultimate size and shape of the market, as well as its effect on traditional auto insurance, according to SMA study.

Solution designed to ease insurers’ transition to the approaching compliance mandates.

Celent report profiles 13 vendors and offers insights in terms of data sources, service and delivery options.

Industry wide, however, annuity sales dropped slightly in the third quarter.

The top areas for technology investments among workers’ compensation carriers are claims system replacements and predictive analytics, according to Novarica’s new “Business and Technology Trends: Workers’ Compensation” research report.

These can help commercial lines carriers experience expense reduction, growth strategies and improving underwriting results.

Insurers will pay a fee of 3.5 percent of their premiums to sell plans in a federally run health exchange, the government said today in a regulatory filing. The exchanges are new marketplaces somewhat like online travel services where uninsured people will buy policies.

Insurance Telematics is the overnight sensation that's been more than a decade in the making. And while telematics, usually associated with usage- or behavior-based insurance, is frequently portrayed as a revolutionary idea, it has failed to live up to its potential. Until now.

The New York Insurance Association says New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s mandate to speed the payment of the more than 330,000 claims filed by New Yorkers related to Superstorm Sandy are unnecessary.

The NAIC president comments as House Financial Services subcommittees explore the impact of new standards on the insurance industry.

At a time of incredible change in the insurance industry, IT is right in the middle of that change.

To Improve Operating Ratios, Insurers Must Improve Risk Selection, Pricing and Processes For More Predictable Returns.

While there are many advantages to moving to a digital environment, insurers are finding that to be successful, a big-picture, stepped approach is required to address compliance issues.

While it's impossible to know what you don't know about the massive stores of data insurers accumulate, it's also possible to not understand what you know. That's where predictive analytics comes in. Vince Franz, VP and Chief Actuary, Celina Insurance Group, talked with Insurance Networking News about actuarial practices, the role of predictive analytics and how to justify the cost of such a project.

Aetna, among other insurers, plans to spend millions of dollars to support a group fighting to get coverage for the uninsured.

A survey indicates cloud decisions are being made more and more by business managers rather than, or as well as, by IT.

After a decade of falling rates and large profit margins, a new report from Conning urges insurers to review strategies in light of a changing market environment.