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Getting Life Insurance For Clients With Medical Conditions It's getting easier for clients with pre-existing medical conditions to get life insurance coverage today.   |
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February 10, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Business Intelligence Makes Insurers More-Competitive Risk Managers For most insurers, business intelligence means point solutions at best. But those carriers that weave analytics into the fabric of their organizations are equipped to drive more precision in pricing and greater profitability to the bottom line. |
Insurance & Technology
August 26, 2007
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Workers' Compensation Carriers Agree: Business Intelligence, Analytics Critical To Market Success Industry experts discuss how improved data management and automation of manual processes are key to helping workers' compensation carriers build share in an increasingly competitive market. |
Insurance & Technology
April 6, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Healthcare Reform Will Require Massive Insurance IT Spending Caught off guard by the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, insurers must modernize IT while increasing operational efficiency. |
Insurance & Technology
August 10, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Rating Risk Fitch Ratings unveiled Prism, a global economic insurance capital model that will be added to its evaluations of carriers' enterprise risk management. |
Insurance & Technology
January 25, 2005
Cynthia Saccocia |
Did You Say Controlled Tech Spending? Aw, Not Again! Insurance is an industry that reacts decisively to its business cycles and urgently to intrusions of reality such as catastrophic claims, economic issues and regulation. |
Financial Advisor
May 2008
David J. Drucker |
The Inconvenient Truth About Health Insurance Health insurance has become one more area of planning that finds itself on a growing list of risks advisors aren't adequately addressing in their clients' financial plans. |
Insurance & Technology
April 20, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
What's the Frequency? Telematics and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies can enable insurers to do a more targeted job of underwriting and pricing, but privacy concerns may stall their adoption. |
Insurance & Technology
September 14, 2006
Maria Woehr |
One Charter to Rule Them All? Insurers, analysts and vendors are weighing the benefits and risks of the National Insurance Act of 2006 - a plan to adopt an optional federally chartered regulatory system - as well as the impact the federal regulation could have on IT systems. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Not Risking It The availability of catastrophe models generated overconfidence among insurers, which, after the past hurricane season, are realizing the technology's limitations. However, insurers will still continue to rely on cat modeling to reduce risk exposure. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Dayana Yochim |
8 Ways to Insure Your Home Insurance Stop paying a bucketful of cash for a thimble's worth of coverage. Read on for ways to get the most from your home insurance. |
Insurance & Technology
December 16, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Priorities Will Shift, But Insurers' 2009 IT Spending Remains Healthy Given the ravages the financial crisis has wrought in the insurance industry, greater cost consciousness will return to insurance IT organizations. |
Bank Technology News
February 2002
Amy Newell |
Insurance Industry Enjoys Net Gains Although shopping for policies on the Web is easy, and thus commonplace, applying for and purchasing them online tends to be a chore. Here's a look at the current state of insurance websites and what they envision for the future... |
U.S. Banker
March 2009
Glen Fest |
D&O Sticker Shock As the credit crisis worsened last year and more and more financial institutions became targets of shareholder lawsuits, many banks were hit with up to 85% increases in their premiums for director and officer insurance. |
Insurance & Technology
November 15, 2007
Katherine Burger |
Insurers' Technology Investments Transform Catastrophe Claims Management Strategies While technology's power is welcomed by the public, politicians and the media in terms of catastrophe claims response, it's not always so appreciated when it comes to how insurers deploy it to forecast, analyze and underwrite risks. |
CFO
April 1, 2003
David M. Katz |
Holes in the Net? Insurers' woes are mounting -- and your company's coverage may be at risk. |
Insurance & Technology
January 17, 2006
Cynthia Saccocia |
Managing in the Best and Worst of Times The insurance industry leaders - from megaglobal insurers to small regional or niche carriers - are achieving excellence by concentrating on profitable growth and competitive advantage. |
Insurance & Technology
February 9, 2004
Greg MacSweeney |
2004 Top Insurance Business/Technology Issues This special report takes a look at some of the top business issues that insurance carriers will face this year and how technology can help make their challenges easier. |
Insurance & Technology
September 6, 2007
Nathan Conz |
Data Mining Improves Fraud Mitigation Efforts Data mining can help insurers access and leverage the institutional knowledge vital to fraud mitigation efforts that is locked inside their current and historical claims data. |
Insurance & Technology
September 16, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Elusive Prize: Effective Cross-Selling Only a minority of insurers succeed in crossing lines of business to increase customer wallet share effectively. |
Insurance & Technology
January 17, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Constant Change The coming year's regulatory and political agenda could result in requirements for reform and increasing technology investments, which could alter the business environment for property and casualty, life, and health insurers alike. |
Insurance & Technology
November 26, 2003
Cynthia Saccocia |
Placing Your Bets Technology Will insurers ante up on technology investments in front-office or back-office systems in 2004, or hold back? In this exclusive preview, TowerGroup assesses the field. |
BusinessWeek
July 12, 2004
Howard Gleckman |
Providing For Your Own Care Long-term care insurance is getting even more pricey, so shop carefully. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2008
Donald Jay Korn |
Healthcare Without Medicare For many under-65 retirees, the most important question for them to think about is "How's your health?" |
Inc.
December 2005
Alison Stein Wellner |
Do-It-Yourself Insurance There is a competitive market for individual insurance policies. But you may want to think twice before sending your employees off on their own. |
Registered Rep.
January 18, 2011
Alan Lavine |
Insurers Raising Premiums, Changing Terms on Long-term Care Policies If you're selling long-term care insurance to clients, it's best to stay away from carriers with a history of raising premiums or discontinuing other types of insurance coverage. |
Insurance & Technology
March 7, 2006
Deena M. Amato-McCoy |
Storm Surge Refusing to be caught off guard again, insurance companies are reexamining their IT strategies and operations in anticipation of the fast-approaching 2006 hurricane season. |
The Motley Fool
May 29, 2009
Brian Orelli |
The "Naughty List" You Want Your Company On Athenahealth is out with its annual review of how quickly health insurers are paying the claims that doctors make for services. |
Insurance & Technology
December 7, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Duck Creek Releases EXAMPLE Platform 4.1 The new release will provide enhanced performance capabilities, owing to new efficiencies designed into EXAMPLE Platform 4.1's core infrastructure, according to the vendor. |
Insurance & Technology
March 5, 2008
David West |
Exclusive Research Report: Insurance IT Spending Slowdown Already Upon Us, TowerGroup Says Although TowerGroup previously observed an upward trend in insurance carriers' IT spending with an anticipated slowing in spending by 2009, the latest research suggests that the slowdown already is upon us. |
The Motley Fool
July 24, 2007
Dayana Yochim |
Are You About To Get Dumped? Don't call, don't make any claims, keep a low profile, and maybe, maybe, your insurance company won't drop you. |
Financial Advisor
October 2006
Eric L. Reiner |
P&C Insurance For The Rich And Famous These clients' unique needs warrant attention from advisors. Homeowners... Flood Insurance Gets Personal... Personal Director's Liability Insurance... etc. |
Managed Care
April 2000 |
More consumers have choice of health plans, but is it enough to make HMOs responsive? Competition benefits consumers, the theory goes. Policy makers who seek to alter market forces in health care should keep this corollary of capitalism in mind, says the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington-based think tank.... |
Managed Care
February 2004 |
Overall, a good climate in 2004 Operating performance is expected to be strong this year, thanks to moderating medical costs and rate increases that are forecast to run between 10 percent and 12 percent, on average. |
Insurance & Technology
December 15, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell et al. |
4 Technology Solutions That Sizzle While insurers often are cautious in their adoption of emerging technologies, carriers are investing in four solutions -- cloud computing, mobile, analytics and social networking -- that are just too transformative to ignore. |
Insurance & Technology
August 7, 2008
Stuart Rose |
Insurers' Fraud Technology Is Behind the Times But network link analysis, voice stress-recognition software and other emerging analytics technologies, along with fraud propensity scoring, can bring carriers up to speed. |
Insurance & Technology
January 25, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Underwriting Updated How are insurers making the underwriting process more efficient to improve profits?... What emerging technologies can help insurers improve the underwriting process?... etc. |
CRM
July 27, 2011
Leonard Klie |
Health Insurers Need to Improve Customer Relationships to Compete Accenture survey finds 80 percent of consumers expect healthcare insurance customer services to be easier and more convenient. |
Insurance & Technology
May 2, 2008
Nathan Conz |
Managed Competition in Massachusetts Leads to Technology Challenges April 1st marked the beginning of the Massachusetts' new and less-regulated automobile insurance system, known as managed competition. The switch will be a huge change - particularly from an operations and technology standpoint. |
Insurance & Technology
January 25, 2005 |
Deja Vu All Over Again Many of the major areas of focus for senior insurance technology executives in the coming year will be familiar ones that have become even more pressing. Insurers will boost their offshore outsourcing activities and increasingly dip a toe into business process outsourcing (BPO). |
Bank Director
1st Quarter 2009
Charles Keenan |
Sleep Insurance: How the Market is Affecting Your D&O Coverage Banks face a double whammy of sorts, since rockier times will make it almost necessary to raise coverage limits for directors in order to retain or lure them. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Who's the Best Health Insurer? A recent survey shows that public companies aren't making the grade. Investors, it's important to remember that these companies are at a competitive disadvantage to some of their counterparts. |
Insurance & Technology
November 10, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
IT Will Power Insurance Industry Response to Crisis Technology spending will be a critical factor for insurers wishing to both take advantage of opportunities provided by the current crisis and address heightened compliance and risk management concerns. |
CFO
Kris Frieswick |
Less for More Coping with the bear market in directors' and officers' liability insurance... |
