If the results of a survey of North American property/casualty insurers hold true, 2010 should be a year of growth for the industry, according to Deb Smallwood, founder of Strategy Meets Action (SMA).

ACORD announced it has received another contribution from IBM to help the insurance industry's standards organization develop the ACORD Framework Information Model.

At KPMG's insurance conference held in late September, attendees were surveyed on various issues facing the industry, including their views on underwriting profitability.

At KPMG's insurance conference held in late September, attendees were surveyed on various issues facing the industry, including their views on underwriting profitability.

There's little doubt in Steve Boyd's mind that 2009 was a year that called for turning to insurance technology to help ride through the storm.

If there has been a theme for 2009 it's been: Efficiency Rules.

Property and casualty insurers are faced with difficult choices when dealing with aging claims systems, which can't provide the high level of service that customers expect from their carriers today, one leading consultant warns.

Utica National Insurance Group has been using Claims Workstation through four different iterations of the product and three different corporate names for the vendor--beginning with Freedom Group, then Fiserv Insurance Solutions, and now StoneRiver.