Insurance regulation, led by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the 50 states departments of insurance regulation, has taken on a new meaning over the course of time.

Todays regulatory oversight of insurance still the purview of the states is designed to maintain a competitive balance in the industry.

In this three-part series, we'll explore the roots, realities and management needs of insurance compliance, beginning with its surprising regulatory history.

Across the industry, agencies will get bigger and fewer, with more specialties under a single roof.

The biggest benefit of a third-party application is that a vendor develops it specifically to address a need in the operations of an insurance company. But in reality, the biggest benefit is more likely to be in the design of the application, which has been vetted by other insurance companies...

It started with mainframe computers, which took up huge amounts of space, required heavy duty air-conditioning, needed raised floors to hide all the cables and wires and consumed whole forests of paper.

Insurance technology needs to be flexible, adaptable and designed for an unknown future.

The challenges in compensation are becoming more evident as the insurance industry transforms itself into the one-stop financial supermarket for insurance. Read on to learn about emerging compensation practices.