The Cadillac Escalade tops Highway Loss Data Institute's list again; pickup trucks dominate the rest of the top 10, but not as much as in the past.

As it leaves the Bahamas behind, the storm is forecast to make direct landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina late Saturday.

Hoping to “maximize shareholder value,” Davis Advisors filed concerns with the SEC on Wednesday.

New Aite Group report examines how predictive analysis can help insurers remake the claims process.

Western National Life hits $2 billion mark, tops Allianz and New York Life in second-quarter fixed annuity sales, according to Beacon Research.

LIMRA reports whole and variable life insurance sales increase in first half of 2011; term life declines.

Edwardson Named CIO of FAMI

There are seven sets of open-source applications that run everything from front offices to CRM.

Brokers indicate consistent rates and a general consensus that the market has improved to a point of equilibrium.

Insured Retirement Institute reports “record-setting” sales for the annuity industry.

Cloud and SaaS Dominate Disruption

Indiana Farm Bureau Inks Payments Deal

Industry fortunate as insured losses from quake estimated at less than $100 million; but catastrophe-related losses in the first half of 2011 already stand at $27 billion.

Allstate, GEICO, Nationwide, Progressive and 10 others rated and reviewed on OnlineAutoInsurance.com’s newly launched site.

It seems the demands of virtual and cloud technologies may be overheating older insurance hardware systems, but will we replace them?

Vertafore continues acquisition spree with purchase of compliance BPO provider.

Accenture and Sapiens finalize separate deals to diversify clientele and expand services within the insurance industry.

The PMI Group has halted the writing of all new insurance policies.

Though the core systems technologies and services may have reached critical mass in terms of supporting creative disruption, there's always room to ask: What if...?

MetLife Regains Top Annuities Sales Spot