insurance industry

• Federal Bills Incentivize States to Adopt Uniform Building Codes

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 9, 2013

  Legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate aimed at providing additional incentives for states to adopt and enforce uniform building codes.

• RMS Announces New Real-Time Platform to Manage Risk

  By Staff Writer  |  May 8, 2013

  RMS announced its new RMS(one) single, open platform, which provides customized real-time risk intelligence and analytics on a range of mobile devices.

• 2013 RAVE Award Winner: Silanis Technology

  By Staff Writer  |  May 8, 2013

  Product: E-Sign Enterprise

• ACORD Sets Sights on Global Markets

  By Al Senia  |  May 8, 2013

  ACORD is playing a vital role in the growing international insurance market as the organization responds to increasing requests from overseas groups to provide information about its standards and messages.

• 2013 RAVE Award Winner: VERTEX

  By Staff Writer  |  May 8, 2013

  Product: VTXml Product Suite

• Outreach Highlights AUGIE's Activities in 2013

  By Michael P. Voelker  |  May 8, 2013

  There's one word that best defines the vision for AUGIE, the ACORD-User Group Information Exchange, in 2013: outreach.

• Anatomy of an ACORD LOMA Session

  By David LaMartina  |  May 8, 2013

  The 2013 ACORD LOMA Forum may look prim and polished, but coordinators have put a great deal of prep work into this year's presentations.

• ACORD LOMA Session Highlights Disruptive Power of Telematics

  By Michael P. Voelker  |  May 8, 2013

  For years, auto insurers' efforts to achieve greater pricing precision has involved looking backwards—analyzing historical claim data and risk characteristics to determine the right price for a current exposure.

• Fitch Sounds Alarm on Impact of Not Renewing TRIA

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 7, 2013

  Fitch Ratings is warning that failure to renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act could reduce product capacity in larger metropolitan areas, raising premium rates.

• Keeping Out of Court with E-Signatures

  By David LaMartina  |  May 7, 2013

  Straight-through processing has become wildly popular with the growth of E-commerce, and many insurers are making the switch to electronic verification.

• Plumbers Don't Write Insurance

  By David LaMartina  |  May 7, 2013

  You can't manage what you can't measure, and business intelligence is only going to become more important in today's increasingly online, mobile and cloud-based economy.

• P&C Carriers Add Jobs in March; Agent/Broker Employment Continues to Decline

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 6, 2013

  Property and Casualty carriers added 900 jobs in March -- a month that saw employment shrink in most other sectors of the insurance industry, according to an analysis of the latest figures from the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• Connecting Business and Technology the Focus of 2013 ACORD LOMA Forum

  By David LaMartina  |  May 6, 2013

  Rapid innovations in communications, data storage and computing are transforming global business like never before, and insurance professionals will need to adapt to stay ahead of the curve.

• Maciag Believes Insurers Should Capitalize on Changing Markets, Customers

  By Staff Writer  |  May 6, 2013

  Greg Maciag, president and CEO of ACORD and a long-time expert on technology in the insurance industry, believes the industry must quickly adjust to successfully capitalize on the expanding and changing demands of employees and customers.

• ACORD, LOMA Celebrate 10 Years of Innovation and Education

  By Staff Writer  |  May 6, 2013

  Keeping pace with the latest advances is essential. The place for those companies to stay on top of the changes – and on top of their game – is the ACORD LOMA Forum.

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  ACE Sneak Peek: Post-Sandy Claims Management Issues

  By Ezra Steinberg  |  May 2, 2013

  Post-Sandy claims management lessons will prove invaluable when handling next "superstorm."