May 24, 2013
If insurers were permitted to put aside funds with favorable tax treatment, it would not take long to build up significant reserves that would be available in the event of a catastrophe, notes Howard Mills, chief advisor with Deloitte LLP's insurance industry group.
May 24, 2013
Are your analytics efforts getting bogged down in all the data streaming in from social, apps, surveys and other channels? Here's how to get unstuck.
May 23, 2013
IT leaders, brace yourself for pain as you push for agility. Business needs are emerging so rapidly that tools don't exist to support them, said CIOs at MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.
May 22, 2013
Federal health agency offers funding for new models of nonhospital care that cut federal health expenditures, improve health of specific patient populations.
May 21, 2013
Insurance losses are expected to be at least in the hundreds of millions, but it's too early to tell whether the event will exceed the $1 billion in losses of the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado of 1999.
May 20, 2013
Already used by top ten P&C carriers and reinsurers, the tool has been made generally available to enable customers to create realistic footprints for hurricanes both before and after landfall and to conduct detailed claims analyses using their own loss experience.
May 17, 2013
Insurers are responding to increased fraud activity with more anti-fraud technology budget, aimed at detecting potentially fraud as early as possible in the claims lifecycle.
May 17, 2013
Security First is using big-data cloud social media analytics software from IBM and partner Integritie to analyze incoming messages sent by email and social media.
May 16, 2013
James Routh has joined Aetna as chief information security officer responsible for the overall program around the health insurer's information assets.
May 15, 2013
Using advanced regression techniques, CUNA Mutual has developed improved models to target customers in direct business, resulting in better customer satisfaction, increased revenue and reduced cost.
May 14, 2013
Guidewire has characterized the deal as providing the ability to help customers to accelerate replacement of their legacy core systems and to improve management of operational data in their policy, billing, and claims functions.
