Some thirty-plus presentations are scheduled for the industry-wide Real Time Day, Wednesday, Feb. 29. The day, spearheaded by the Real Time/Download Campaign, coincides with Leap Day, and will offer agents, brokers, carriers, vendors and others practical guidance on how modern workflows can help drive business and profits growth.

Once upon a time, the word batch had a wonderful meaning, particularly when you remembered your sweet little gray-haired grandmother making a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Insurance companies used the word to describe how they would process their work at the end of the day. Today, batch processing is...

Bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc. says it has offered to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $100 million dollars and give up tax credits to settle a dispute over tax treatment of credit default swaps.