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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.
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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.
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      • Underwriting Technology Matures: The Birth and Rise
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  • Underwriting

      • 4 Key Benefits of SaaS Automated Systems for Life Insurers
        By Mitch Ludwig, Accenture Software. | May 23, 2013
        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.
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      • Would You Insure a Flying Car?
        By Nathan Golia | May 14, 2013
        At a time when the auto insurance industry is evaluating the potential impact of autonomous vehicles, there are actually "flying cars" being produced.
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      • Information as a Game Changer: Actuarial Analytics — Score Keeping, or Trusted Advice?
        By Paul Delbridge, Mark Purowitz, Punita Gandhi and Caitlin Marcoux, PwC | May 10, 2013
        There is a great opportunity to more effectively utilize actuaries’ advanced analytics and modelling expertise, and thereby change actuaries’ role from scorekeeping to one in which they create a significant, information-driven competitive advantage for the organization.
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      • Sanjay Pandey Named CIO of National Life Group
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 10, 2013
        Pandey seeks to build on his successful enhancements to agent ease of doing business undertaken during his tenure as CIO of Donegal Insurance Group.
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      • Underwriting Technology Matures: The Birth and Rise
        By Gail McGiffin, Ernst & Young LLP | May 07, 2013
        The next generation of underwriting talent will grow and thrive not by the oral history passed along from the prior generation, but by the ability to provide an environment fueled by superior rules, insight-driven analytics, real-time collaboration and faster execution.
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      • Valen Analytics Launches Expanded InsureRight Platform for Enhanced Underwriting Performance
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 30, 2013
        The newly rebranded vendor's InsureRight offering, now covering all lines of business, is designed to give carriers statistically valid portfolio insights that they can distribute to individual underwriters in a simple, easy-to-understand language.
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      • Genworth Life Reduces Policy Cycle Times Nearly 70%
        By Anne Rawland Gabriel | April 19, 2013
        Genworth U.S. Life Companies reduces new policy cycle times from about 25 days to an average of eight by adopting Aplifi's multi-carrier electronic settlement platform.
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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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      • Patriot National Appoints Exec to Joint Underwriting/Marketing Position
        By Nathan Golia | April 17, 2013
        In this position, Paul Halter will work on expanding the business's footprint.
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      • Mutual Insurers More Sensitive to Catastrophe, Process and Technology Can Bridge the Gap
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 17, 2013
        Policy holders concentrated by type and geography are among the reasons mutual insurers are more susceptible to catastrophe claims challenges, but proactive measures and technology solutions can enable carriers to compensate, according to Willis Re.
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      • Boston Marathon Bombing's Implications for Insurance
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 16, 2013
        The attack introduced new risks into social life, which will ultimately affect risk management, security measures and insurance.
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      • Making Claims Data Actionable for Litigation Management
        By Hans Bengard, TyMetrix | April 10, 2013
        Implementing a consolidated litigation management solution helps insurers trim claim expense costs, streamline and automate workflows, and enforce best practices throughout the claims discipline.
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      • Business Frameworks – Transformational Acceleration Pedal
        By Pierre Gagné, Insurance Frameworks Inc. | April 08, 2013
        Over the last few years, there has been increasingly industry buzz about capability models, enterprise business frameworks, reference models, etc. What are they, how can organizations benefit from them, and what types of projects can leverage them?
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      • Sun Life Appoints New Chief Actuary
        By Nathan Golia | April 05, 2013
        Larry Madge was last CFO of the company's U.S. subsidiary.
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      • Main Street America Promotes Business Technology Head to AVP Level
        By Nathan Golia | April 03, 2013
        Lisa Murman is responsible for planning and developing underwriting and process automation solutions.
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      • CNO Financial Group Appointments Support Customer Focus, Growth
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 29, 2013
        Changes at CNO will support the company's focus on the customer by creating a strategic marketing organization that leverages customer analytics, leads, and products across the enterprise.
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      • SAP Acquires Insurance Product Development Engine Camilion
        By Nathan Golia | March 07, 2013
        SAP says the value added to its insurance software portfolio is in providing an end-to-end suite backed by its in-memory computing capabilities.
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      • Conning/Milliman Partnership Boosts Economic Capital Modeling
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 05, 2013
        Linking Milliman’s MG-ALFA system with Conning’s GEMS Economic Scenario Generator will respond to regulators’ and raters increasing demand for stochastic modeling capabilities and foster a holistic approach to risk management.
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      • Insurers' 3 Most Promising Next-Gen Techs... And an Overrated One
        By Nathan Golia | March 01, 2013
        Insurance company technologists had different ideas on the emerging technology with the most potential in a panel discussion this week -- but reached a surprising consensus on which one might have the least.
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      • Poor Insurance Customer Experience May Drive Away Customers - Capgemini Report
        By Anthony O'Donnell | February 27, 2013
        Catastrophes have blunted improved underwriting results across geographies, and two out of three customers are at risk of retention with only a neutral or negative customer experience.
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      • Making ERM Part of an Insurer's Culture Requires People, Not Just Technology
        By Jeffery Brown, Infogix, Inc. | February 08, 2013
        Effective risk management is not about trying to avoid risk; it is about striking a balance between minimizing risk and maximizing reward.
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      • Perspectives on Changing Global Risk, Natural and Otherwise
        By Anthony O'Donnell | January 25, 2013
        AIR Worldwide and Willis counsel against increased risks from natural catastrophe, cyber risk, reputational risk and the potential consequences of abandoning ERM efforts.
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      • The Reshaping of Auto Insurance
        By Marik Brockman, Anand Rao, PwC | January 08, 2013
        Strong forces that stand to reshape the sector include shifts to new types of coverage, alternative distribution channels, and redefined customer segments.
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      • AT&T to Launch Home Monitoring Service in March
        By Sinead Carew, Reuters | January 08, 2013
        AT&T Inc plans to kick off its Digital Life home monitoring service in eight U.S. markets in March, part of its efforts to expand wireless services beyond phones.

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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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