The U.S. economy is always top of mind for property/casualty insurers—particularly when it remains sluggish for two or more years—but there are other issues for carriers to address if they want 2011 to be successful.

The U.S. economy is always top of mind for property/casualty insurers—particularly when it remains sluggish for two or more years—but there are other issues for carriers to address if they want 2011 to be successful.

People want data wherever and whenever they need it and Nationwide Insurance employees are no different. But the issue risk management personnel at Nationwide have to deal with—and at every insurance company—is how to protect that data.

People want data wherever and whenever they need it and Nationwide Insurance employees are no different. But the issue risk management personnel at Nationwide have to deal with—and at every insurance company—is how to protect that data.

To no ones great surprise, IBM’s Watson question answering (QA) system triumphed over a couple of guys you normally wouldn’t want to get into a Trivial Pursuit contest with on the Jeopardy! TV game show last week.

To no ones great surprise, IBM’s Watson question answering (QA) system triumphed over a couple of guys you normally wouldn’t want to get into a Trivial Pursuit contest with on the Jeopardy! TV game show last week.

Risk managers are facing two related, yet still divergent, movements in the world of computing, according to David Allred, head of technology for Zurich North America Commercial.

Novarica just released its Insurance Information Technology 2011 report and to no one’s great surprise core systems rank at the top of the to-do list for insurers.