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Insurers see new opportunities, but challenges remain in telematics, GPS strategies.

Great American Insurance Group (GAIG) has entered into a strategic relationship with India-based IT services provider HCL Technologies.

The number of life producers using mobile devices doubled from 2008 to 2010, making mobile tech an imperative if the carrier seeks a competitive advantage, says LIMRA.

Hedge fund manager John Paulson demands that The Hartford Financial Services Group break into two companies; insurer evaluating strategy.

In an increasingly competitive technology vendor market, life insurers are gradually modernizing their policy administration legacy systems.

Software enabling insurers to calculate and integrate risk ratings for wildfires unveiled.

With the underlying economy likely to remain weak and organic growth hard to come by, the most effective lever for financial success remaining for insurers is to control costs.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has pressed bailed-out insurer American International Group to provide more disclosures on guaranteed interest rates in its life insurance business.

To enhance customer service, P&C carrier will give its 100,000-plus policyholders the option of accessing documents digitally in a secure, central online environment.

Of 18 industries examined in a new survey, P&C and life insurers improved the most from last year; health insurers remain low on the list.

Additional data source to help insurers improve catastrophe modeling results.

Federal agencies put forth rule requiring insurers to provide explicit information to enrolling consumers.

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Standards groups see promise with establishing aligned interfaces, rules written into RFPs and SLAs, and harmonized government legislation.

Well-executed initiatives in the back office can deliver bottom-line savings, are you up to the task?

New analysis from Celent finds insurers delaying policy administration replacements as they brace for Solvency II.

Aetna, Cigna, The Hartford and Munich Re also among the first to release 2011 figures.

Chairman Steve Miller, who was to become interim AIG CEO if Bob Benmosche were unable to continue with the job, has accepted a position at another company.

In light of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's recent release of cloud guidelines, here are six good reasons to go to cloud and four reasons to be cautious.