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  Top 5 Investment Plans for Agency Portals

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 12, 2013

  Thirty-one percent of P&C insurers expect to make investments to add, replace or enhance their agent/broker portals this year. See the top five agent portal capabilities that insurers plan to add.

• Top Secret

  By Robert Regis Hyle  |  May 1, 2013

  Insurance companies are naturally protective of proprietary information, but the industry as a whole suffers when carriers are unwilling to share information that organizations such as ACORD can use to establish industry-wide standards. That scenario is playing out once again in the telematics space.

• Five Ways Agents, Carriers Can Partner Using Predictive Analytics

  By Wade Bontrager  |  February 5, 2013

  Imagine being able to take the lead in the battle to retain your best customers by predicting the future; and imagine working with your carriers to price risks more accurately. For carriers and independent agents participating in a future-focused relationship in which they share data and use modern predictive analytics...

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  5 Ways Agents and Carriers Can Partner Using Predictive Analytics

  By Wade Bontrager  |  January 22, 2013

  Sharing data through advanced analytics can bring agency-carrier relationships to a whole new level.

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  Insurers Need to Keep Reinventing Themselves for Sustained Growth

  By Rebecca Amoroso, Sam J. Friedman  |  January 18, 2013

  The P&C industry should benefit in the short term from a recovering economy in 2013, but the longer-term outlook depends on how individual carriers respond to a series of more fundamental challenges.

• Why Can’t We Be Friends?

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 4, 2012

  Finding ways to achieve ease of doing business needs to be the goal of not just insurance carriers, but independent agents as well.

• What Makes Personal Lines Buyers Tick?

  By Sam Friedman  |  April 26, 2012

  Personal-lines insurers are locked in a never-ending battle for market share—which has only intensified over the past few years as auto and homeowner’s carriers struggled for organic growth during a down economy and depressed housing market.

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  What Makes Personal-Lines Buyers Tick?

  By Sam J. Friedman  |  March 28, 2012

  Deloitte Research begins a series of reports on the results of a survey of auto and homeowners' policyholders, as well as their implications for carriers looking to enhance the customer experience, improve retention and gain market share.

• Insurers Unlikely To See Fed Reg Via Dodd-Frank; States Fail Consumers

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 22, 2011

  Insurers are unlikely to be subject to federal oversight through the Dodd-Frank act, a Congressional staffer says, but it is unclear whether the act will lead to heightened state regulation.

• Professor Gives 'F' Grade to State Regulators' Consumer Protection

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 15, 2011

  Testimony at a recent Senate hearing alleges a lack of consumer protection by state regulators, while one expert says few insurers will be deemed systemically important by the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

• The Next Big Thing

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 8, 2011

  SMA examines the next-generation technology trends for insurers.

• Bucking The Trend, Top Agencies Thrive

  By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 1, 2010

  Times are tough, insurance is competitive, and the independent agency business isn't what it used to be.

• Insurers Get Their Day in Court

  By Michael P. Voelker  |  September 30, 2010

  In the insurance business--the most heavily litigated business there is--companies have always had to contend with legal discovery; the process where each party to the litigation provides the other with content relevant to the case at hand.

• Lloyd's Record Profits For 2009 May Be Tough To Top As Cats Loom

  By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 10, 2010

  Lloyd's achieved a record profit of ?3.87 billion--that's $5.9 billion, in current exchange rates--to go along with a sparkling combined ratio of 86.1 last year despite a severe economic contraction and stubbornly soft commercial insurance pricing.

• Willis Tells RMs: Use Your Clout To Halt Contingent Commissions

  By Staff Writer  |  April 27, 2010

  Willis launched a public awareness campaign here today at the nation's largest gathering of commercial insurance buyers, aiming to educate risk managers about conflicts of interest inherent in contingent commissions.

• Willis Tells RMs: Use Your Clout To Halt Contingent Commissions

  By Staff Writer  |  April 26, 2010

  Willis launched a public awareness campaign at the nation's largest gathering of commercial insurance buyers, aiming to educate risk managers about conflicts of interest inherent in contingent commissions.