With millions of dollars on the line, it seems hard to believe insurance carriers could be gambling with their project initiatives. But without a clear strategy for how to implement projects--and the r

Employee-funded programs have altered the way specialty benefits carriers are doing business today. As the market has shifted the financial burden of paying for products to individual employees, the p

For Rebecca Amoroso, national insurance industry group leader for Deloitte, her "Global Insurance Industry Outlook" comes down to three issues: the growth imperative, leveraging analytical tools, and

As we reach the midpoint in the year and the start of a new budget cycle, many executives at automated companies are getting hot under the collar, stuck preparing the budget through a manual process.

The flexibility offered by component solutions allows policy administration systems to bend in ways never imagined before. With the help of service-oriented architecture, even large carriers can make

While the approach to IT projects and business projects has changed in recent years, apparently the view of today's projects as being about the business has not caught up with members of the boards of

For the AmFed Companies, a workers' compensation and homeowners insurance carrier located in Ridgeland, Miss., the initial goal was to find a way to automate the claims and bill review departments. Bu

Not all members of a carrier's sales force are created equal. To help those agents who bring in the most business glow brighter than all the others, insurers are supplying them with the best automatio