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Consolidated dashboard, eForms cloud technology, Android compatibility among the latest software improvements from Vertafore

Consolidated dashboard, eForms cloud technology, Android compatibility among the latest software improvements from Vertafore

The Senate is likely this week to pass and send to President Obama legislation revamping the NFIP rate scheme. But any insurance-industry official who thinks this marks the end of the flood insurance rate crisis should think again.

The much-discussed moderating trend in commercial-lines rate increases was seen in Towers Watsons most recent Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey, which showed rates up by 5% in 2013s fourth quarter compared to the same period in 2012.

Property and casualty insurers and agents and brokers again enjoyed a strong month of employment gains in January, adding 1,300 and 1,400 jobs respectively, according to an Insurance Information Institute analysis of the latest U.S. Labor Departments Bureau of Labor Statistics figures.

Property and casualty insurers and agents and brokers again enjoyed a strong month of employment gains in January, adding 1,300 and 1,400 jobs respectively, according to an Insurance Information Institute analysis of the latest U.S. Labor Departments Bureau of Labor Statistics figures.