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  • Infrastructure
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      Tech Must Play Critical Role in Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Debut
      Start up ventures without legacy burdens enjoy a great opportunity for a forward-looking management team to really embed analytics and digital communications into their strategy, but others can leverage technology for specialty success, suggests Martina Conlon, Novarica.
    • Architecture/Infrastructure News

      • Bring Your Own Service: The Next Wave in Collaboration?
      • A Comeback for Native Mobile Apps in Insurance?
      • Insurance CIOs Are Reshaping Their IT Organizations to Fit the Times
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      • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
      • 4 Things Insurers Really Want from Mobile
      • 3 Reasons Insurance Carriers Should Bet on Mobile Technology
      • Managing Marketing's IT Spend
  • Policy Administration
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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

      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
      • The Philadelphia Contributorship Chooses ISCS SurePower Innovation Suite
      • FirstBest Integrates Verisk Data with Underwriting Suite
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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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      Gartner: Personal Loss Control Could Reduce Losses 20% by 2015
      What a new Gartner report terms "active loss prevention" could usher in a new era of insurer/policyholder cooperation in the prevention of loss of property and person — potentially reshaping consumers' perception of the value of the insurance industry.
    • Claims News

      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
      • National Western Life Replaces Existing eApp With StoneRiver LifeApply
      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
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      • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
      • 10 Top Tweets from #IASA2013
      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Insurer Says Blue Cod Solution Stood Test of Super Storm Sandy
  • Management Strategies
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      Northwestern Mutual’s Enterprise Venture Fund Drives New Tech Adoption
      The Milwaukee, Wisc.-based life insurer has taken the risk out of leading-edge technology exploration by creating a dedicated fund and project team.
    • Management Strategies News

      • Farmers Taps Yahoo Vet to Lead Digital Strategy
      • Travelers Acquires Dominion of Canada
      • Aegon Appoints Americas Exec Global CTO
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      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Jackson National Life's Rapid Growth Drives Facilities, IT Expansion
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
      • AXA's New Life HQ Places Premium on Innovation
  • Risk Management
    • Top Story

      Video: Sentry Takes Risk Management Portal Mobile
      The mobile version of Sentry Insight is meant to give commercial lines customers greater access to their claims information.
    • Risk Management News

      • Vertafore Commits to Single Sign-On
      • MagMutual Names New Risk Management VP
      • Hartford Steam Boiler Partners on Blackout Risk Tech
      More Risk Management News
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      • Technology and History Accelerate Insurers' Risk Management Evolution
      • Big Data Boosts Enterprise Risk Management
      • Badass Diamond Heist Boosts Case for Loss Control Tech
      • Making ERM Part of an Insurer's Culture Requires People, Not Just Technology
  • Regulation
    • Top Story

      FIO and NYDFS: A Tale of Two Reports
      New York Insurance Commissioner Ben Lawsky's criticism of captive reinsurance deals appears sensationalist in light of the yesterday's FIO report and industry-side statements.
    • Regulation News

      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
      • Insurers Still Waiting for Regulatory Modernization Report
      • SAP's Camilion Buy Fuels New Compliance-Focused Launch
      More Regulation News
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      • 4 Key Issues from the Long-Delayed FIO Report
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
      • 4 Health Insurance Reform Concerns Technology Can Address
  • Distribution
    • Top Story

      Gartner: Personal Loss Control Could Reduce Losses 20% by 2015
      What a new Gartner report terms "active loss prevention" could usher in a new era of insurer/policyholder cooperation in the prevention of loss of property and person — potentially reshaping consumers' perception of the value of the insurance industry.
    • Distribution News

      • National Western Life Replaces Existing eApp With StoneRiver LifeApply
      • Lincoln Financial Distributors' Tech Strategy: Be Producer-Centric
      • Sentinel Security Life Adopts iPipeline iGO App-based Solution
      More Distribution News
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      • 3 Technologies Changing P&C Insurance Distribution
      • Tech-Enabled Closers Pursue Golden Leads in Insurance Sales
      • Life Insurers Deliver Agent Ease Of Use With E-Signatures, E-Apps And Automated Underwriting
      • CUNA Mutual Group Triples Annuity Sales With Gamified Sales Platform
  • Customer Insight
    • Top Story

      10 Top Tweets from #IASA2013
      Twitter activity around the IASA Educational Conference and Business Show increased this year with the promise of an iPad Mini to one prolific Tweeter. Here's some of the highlights.
    • Customer Insight News

      • Three Insurers Take The Plunge Into Telehealth
      • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
      • 4 Reasons to Invest in Direct Commercial Insurance Sales Platforms
      More Customer Insight News
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      • Big Data's Consumerization Angle
      • More Analytics of Ingenie Telematics Data on the Horizon
      • Is Big Data Insurers' Savior — Or Destroyer?
      • 5 Agenda Items for the 2013 IASA Annual Conference
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  • Regulation

      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
        By Zarna Patel | June 18, 2013
        Michigan's State Health Information Network (MiHIN) will offer MEDfx to hospitals and health systems through sub-state Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) across the state.
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      • FIO and NYDFS: A Tale of Two Reports
        By Anthony O'Donnell | June 13, 2013
        New York Insurance Commissioner Ben Lawsky's criticism of captive reinsurance deals appears sensationalist in light of the yesterday's FIO report and industry-side statements.
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      • Insurers Still Waiting for Regulatory Modernization Report
        By Nathan Golia | June 13, 2013
        Yesterday's release of an informational report by the Federal Insurance Office was a nice start, but for people in the insurance industry, only increases the hunger for the main event.
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      • 4 Key Issues from the Long-Delayed FIO Report
        By Nathan Golia | June 12, 2013
        The Federal Insurance Office's first annual report on the U.S. insurance industry, mandated by the Dodd-Frank law, came out -- more than a year late -- today. Here's a quick, early look at what the body is following.
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      • SAP's Camilion Buy Fuels New Compliance-Focused Launch
        By Nathan Golia | June 03, 2013
        A relaunched circular management system aims to help insurers streamline regulatory compliance.
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      • N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Inquires on Insurers' Cyber Security
        By Nathan Golia | May 29, 2013
        The New York governor has sent letters to 31 insurance companies asking for information on their information security practices.
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      • Bring Your Own Service: The Next Wave in Collaboration?
        By Kathy Burger | May 28, 2013
        A new Microsoft survey across 32 countries shows worker appetite for social tools is increasing. However, financial services firms may not be prepared to satisfy this appetite.
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      • Moore Tornado May Spur CAT Reserving Regulatory Reform
        By Anthony O'Donnell | 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.
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      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 15, 2013
        Gary Shaw, Deloitte's new insurance industry lead, talks about major market forces that the consulting firm's clients face.
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      • Providence Health Plans Selects Colibrio's Tuo for Private Exchange
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 12, 2013
        The carrier says Tuo addresses its need for an end-to-end portal solution as well as a repository of customer information and an internal workflow to support enrollment and customer relationship management.
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      • 6 Best Practices for Implementing Finance Software
        By Kathy Burger | May 07, 2013
        UNIT4 Business Software offers guidelines for implementing finance accounting software to support growth.
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      • Insurer Group: Sharing Telematics Data Must Be Opt-In
        By Nathan Golia | May 03, 2013
        The Association of British Insurers tells its members that getting "explicit consent" from policyholders is a best practice when sharing telematics data outside core insurance practices.
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      • Exigen Fills Gap in Group Benefits Core System Solutions Market
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 30, 2013
        Celent's Chuck Johnston says its makes sense that compelling new solution offerings in the group administration space should come from property & casualty system vendors such as Exigen.
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      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 30, 2013
        Along with significant efficiency and ease-of-doing-business benefits for agents, Columbian Financial Group will be able to build on its record of growth more effectively and efficiently through the operational unity afforded by its systems consolidation.
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      • 4 Health Insurance Reform Concerns Technology Can Address
        By Martyn Christian, Kofax | April 26, 2013
        Technology will offer the healthcare industry a means to fast-track the Affordable Care Act by delivering customer-driven processes that leverage information capture and smart process technology, cloud access and mobility, making compliance affordable to insurers.
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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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      • U.S. Agencies Told To Share Financial Systems
        By | March 29, 2013
        Obama administration hopes to save money and development time by pushing agencies toward shared services for all future financial systems.
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      • UK's Prudential Fined for Hiding AIA Takeover Plans
        By Reuters | March 27, 2013
        Prudential, Britain's largest insurer, has been fined 30 million pounds ($45.5 million) for failing to tell the UK financial regulator about its attempted takeover of Asian rival AIA three years ago.

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      • Some Healthcare Costs to Rise Under Affordable Care Act, Official Says
        By Jeff Mason and David Morgan, Reuters | March 27, 2013
        President Barack Obama's top healthcare adviser acknowledged on Tuesday that costs could rise in the individual health insurance market, particularly for men and younger people, because of the landmark 2010 healthcare restructuring due to take effect next year.

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      • Assurant Settles With N.Y. Over "Force-Placed" Insurance
        By Karen Freifeld and Ashutosh Pandey, Reuters | March 22, 2013
        Assurant Inc settled a New York probe of its "force-placed" insurance by agreeing to pay the state a $14 million penalty, refund some homeowner premiums and reform certain business practices.

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      • Should Insurers Automate E-mail Deletion?
        By Nathan Golia | March 13, 2013
        Regulation demands that insurers stick to their content storage policies in case of lawsuit. How regimented is your company?
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      • What Should Be on the P&C Agenda for 2013
        By Michael A. Costonis, Accenture | March 11, 2013
        Whether through formal committees or ad hoc work groups, P&C insurers should have these four topics featured prominently on agenda for 2013.
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      • U.S. Health Insurers Launch TV War over Medicare Advantage Cuts
        By Reuters | March 07, 2013
        The U.S. health insurance industry is escalating its lobbying battle against a proposed Medicare Advantage pay cut to insurers by launching a television and online advertising campaign to garner public support among the program's 14 million beneficiaries.

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      • Most Large Employers to Keep Health Insurance Benefit: Survey
        By Caroline Humer, Reuters | March 07, 2013
        Most large employers don't expect to send their full-time employees to government health exchanges for insurance during the next five years, but some retirees and part-time workers will end up there, a new survey has found.

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      • Some U.S. Legislators Call for Cuts to Crop Insurance
        By Charles Abbott, Reuters | March 06, 2013
        A coalition of fiscal conservatives on Tuesday called for a steep cut in federal subsidies for crop insurance, setting up a clash with U.S. farm groups that see the program as their top priority in a new farm bill.

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