With insurers and vendors working to solve high entry costs, data challenges, and intellectual property concerns, user-based insurance may finally be nearing its much-anticipated breakthrough to the mainstream.

Agency and brokerage mergers & acquisitions have been on a steady upward climb since 2000, except for a blip in 2009 and 2010 due to the collapse of the economy. Those 2 down years were followed by a near blockbuster year in 2011, and the most active year since 2000...

Consider this real world scenario: Acme Inc. is converting a monolithic COBOL mainframe application to J2EE and Oracle. There are massive blocks of COBOL that need to be rewritten. The development strategy includes an on-shoring element. A number of contract employees are brought on board for the duration of the...

Professional liability is among the most dynamic segments of the insurance industry, and the critical issues, types of exposures and the insurance products providing protection are continually evolving.