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      3 Reasons Insurance Carriers Should Bet on Mobile Technology
      In order to remain profitable, productive and competitive, insurers have seen the need to develop mobile capabilities to meet rapidly changing customer expectations.
    • Architecture/Infrastructure News

      • A Comeback for Native Mobile Apps in Insurance?
      • Insurance CIOs Are Reshaping Their IT Organizations to Fit the Times
      • Fireman's Fund's Three D's: Demand, Design, Delivery
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      • Managing Marketing's IT Spend
      • What Big Data Means For Infrastructure Costs
      • What Was Insurance Tech Like Before the PC?
      • 5 Issues For Insurers Migrating to Hosted Private Cloud
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      4 Key Benefits of SaaS Automated Systems for Life Insurers
      The potential benefits of automated systems for new business and underwriting – in terms of speed, accuracy, cost reduction and improved service – make for a compelling value proposition.
    • Policy Administration News

      • Capital Insurance Goes Native for Mobile Experience
      • Guidewire-Millbrook Deal Signals Value of Data for Differentiation
      • Motorists Replaces Legacy Reinsurance System With Effisoft's WebXL
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      • Underwriting Technology Matures: The Birth and Rise
      • What Commercial Insurers Can Learn from Manufacturers
      • Insurance CIOs Should Turn Conventional Transformational Wisdom on its Head
      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
  • Claims
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    • Claims News

      • Moore Tornado May Spur CAT Reserving Regulatory Reform
      • Bulletin: Late May Tornadoes Could Hit $5 Billion in Insured Losses
      • Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Most Deadly Since Joplin, Missouri 2011
      More Claims News
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    • Management Strategies News

      • Aegon Appoints Americas Exec Global CTO
      • Aflac Announces Management Changes
      • Deloitte Appoints New Insurance Head
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  • Risk Management
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    • Risk Management News

      • Lincoln Financial Group Names New VP & Managing Director Of Portfolio Management Analytics
      • Aetna Names J.P. Morgan Vet New CISO
      • RMS Debuts the RMS (one) Real-Time Exposure and Risk Management Environment
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    • Regulation News

      • Moore Tornado May Spur CAT Reserving Regulatory Reform
      • Providence Health Plans Selects Colibrio's Tuo for Private Exchange
      • 6 Best Practices for Implementing Finance Software
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  • Distribution
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    • Distribution News

      • Progressive Wants to Innovate in Commercial Auto, Too
      • Protective Life Deploys iPipeline's iGO Drop Ticket to Streamline Agent Sales Process
      • Providence Health Plans Selects Colibrio's Tuo for Private Exchange
      More Distribution News
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  • Customer Insight
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    • Customer Insight News

      • 4 Ways Driverless Cars Are Poised to Shake up Insurance
      • CUNA Mutual Uses SAS for TruStage Agency Customer Contact Strategy
      • 6 Trends That Emerged At ACORD LOMA 2013
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  • Convergence

      • Protective Life Deploys iPipeline's iGO Drop Ticket to Streamline Agent Sales Process
        By Kathy Burger | May 15, 2013
        Rules-based short form is designed to simplify application process and facilitate sales.
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      • Xchanging Aims at "Transformational Play" With Launch of Netsett Net Settlement Utility to US Market
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 07, 2013
        Settlement processes similar to those that reduce needed capital from $80 billon to $12 billion on the London market are poised through an Xchanging/Deutsche Bank partnership to address $3 trillion global market, with the possibility of a 85% reduction in the working capital required.
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      • How Can Insurers Expand Their Social Strategy?
        By Nathan Golia | May 06, 2013
        Hearsay Social CTO Steve Garrity says creative insurers can develop strategies for different social networks.
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      • Xuber Launches in U.S. in Response to Demand for Modern Commercial Lines Solutions
        By | April 17, 2013
        The software business of Xchanging is offering an end-to-end module-based solution built on a single data model.
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      • One in 4 Want to Close Life Insurance Sales Online: LIMRA
        By Nathan Golia | April 16, 2013
        LIMRA's and the LIFE Foundation's latest Insurance Barometer Study provides a window into what prospects want from life insurance companies.
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      • MetLife CEO Pushback at SIFI is One Voice Among Many
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 12, 2013
        Steven Kandarian's comments at the April 10 Capital Markets Summit harmonize with those of other carriers and industry associations in a rare case of unanimity.
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      • Plymouth Rock Adds Quote Comparison to Online Sales Portal
        By Nathan Golia | April 09, 2013
        The addition allows an independent agent to reach out to a prospect who uses the Plymouth Rock quote portal with multiple carriers' rates.
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      • Lincoln Financial Distribution Names AXA Vet Marketing Head
        By Nathan Golia | April 08, 2013
        Kathy Kavanaugh joins the organization as VP of strategic solutions and partner marketing.
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      • SeaPass BOLT and the Sea Change in Commercial Lines
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 04, 2013
        The BOLT Platform reflects the rapid evolution of the insurance distribution ecosystem in which now both commercial and personal customers demand multi-channel availability of quotes, comparisons, customer service and transactional efficiencies.
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      • Kofax Launch Shows Mobile Capture for Insurance Distribution Heating Up
        By Nathan Golia | March 13, 2013
        Kofax is the latest vendor to offer plug-and-play mobile document capture for use in insurance consumer apps.
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      • U.S. to Operate 26 State Health Exchanges with Little Local Help
        By Reuters | February 20, 2013
        The Obama administration said on Tuesday that it will operate federal online health insurance marketplaces in 26 of the 50 U.S. states with little or no input from local state officials.

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      • Dubai Financial Hub Sees Growth in Asia, Africa Business
        By Andrew Torchia, Reuters | February 14, 2013
        The Dubai International Financial Centre, a business zone, says it aims to double the number of companies there over five years by serving as a base for business with China, south Asia and Africa, not merely the Gulf.

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      • Growth in Global Markets Requires Right Service, Product and Technology
        By Kimberly Morton, OneShield | February 04, 2013
        Capitalizing on new growth opportunities in the global arena requires the right technology, a customer-centric approach and localization of products and services to ensure success.
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      • Microinsurance: Monitoring a Maturing Market
        By Anthony O'Donnell | January 31, 2013
        Microinsurance may cover as many as 1 billion people by 2020, according to the Microinsurance Network, but questions remain as to the potential profitability of the business in a given geography.
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      • 5 Tips for Tackling the Insurance Industry's Biggest Marketing Challenges
        By Jon Malenfant, DataXu | January 25, 2013
        As insurers strive to improve customer prospecting, cross-selling and branding, they increasingly are turning to digital marketing management solutions.
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      • Tech Vital for Insurers to Meet Equity Analysts' Expectations
        By John Del Santo and Thomas Meyer, Accenture | January 15, 2013
        Technology is one of four key elements that both P&C and life insurers must get right to grow at the rates that equity analysts – and, by extension, the worldwide investment community – expect.
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      • Deloitte: Direct Sales A 2013 Priority for Life, P&C
        By Nathan Golia | January 11, 2013
        Among the items that appeared on the consultancy's 2013 priority lists, direct sales was one of a couple that life and P&C insurers share.
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      • China's Insurance Regulator to Reject $9.4 Billion HSBC Deal: Reports
        By Clare Baldwin, Reuters | January 09, 2013
        China's insurance regulator is expected to reject HSBC's sale of its $9.4 billion stake in Ping An Insurance to Thai conglomerate CP Group, media reports said on Wednesday.

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      • Lincoln Financial Group Chooses Insurance Technologies' E-application Business Fulfillment Platform
        By Kathy Burger | January 08, 2013
        Implementation of FireLight solution will provide distributors with a mobile platform that takes them "from illustration to application."
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      • U.S. Accounted for 90% of Insured Natural Catastrophe Losses in 2012: Munich Re
        By Kathy Burger | January 04, 2013
        According to the insurer's 2012 Natural Catastrophe Year in Review report, Superstorm Sandy and the summer's drought caused record losses in the U.S., although globally losses were lower than in 2011.
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      • UnitedHealth Hops on Retail Bandwagon
        By Nathan Golia | January 04, 2013
        The health insurer has opened several retail stores over the past year.
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      • Assurant Health Names Nationwide Vet Chief Sales Officer
        By Nathan Golia | November 30, 2012
        The specialty health insurer is looking for a new distribution strategy.
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      • MetLife's Aggressive Distribution Strategy Reaches Business Market
        By Nathan Golia | November 27, 2012
        Following the company's pilot of individual life insurance "in a box" at Walmarts, the company has released a new selling system aimed at helping agents and brokers more easily identify potential solutions for the business market.
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      • Registering for a Race Online? Insure Your Fee
        By Nathan Golia | November 26, 2012
        Allianz' specialty arm is offering a way for race registrants to insure their fee in case of cancellation -- like the New York Marathon post-Sandy.
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      • Bring It On: With Eye on the Future, AIG Returns Core Insurance Operations to AIG Brand
        By Kathy Burger | November 12, 2012
        With eye on the future, AIG returns core insurance operations to AIG brand; "AIG as a global insurance brand is back," declares president and CEO Robert Benmosche, in explaining new branding and "brand promise" strategy.
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