Understanding Terminology

Core IT: The systems that provide core insurance functionality including policy administration, claims and billing. Many times these systems are old and are difficult to modify. Change is done using ...

Benefits of Automated Fraud Detection Systems

According to Peter Cates, senior business solutions consultant within the financial practice at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence's insurance team, insurers can achieve multiple benefits when using ...

P/C Insurer Mergers: Reaching the Tipping Point

The growing number of reinsurance mergers is understandable considering that the flood of alternative capital has upended the industry's economics. If companies don't lower their cost of capital and ...

How to Develop a Robust Risk Appetite Statement

In a recent Own Risk and Solvency Assessment webinar conducted by FTI Consulting, more than 50 percent of attendees stated they had not adequately defined risk appetite as part of their ORSA ...

What Insurance Agents Want from Carriers

Agents like what they get already but see room for improvement in field operations, agent education and marketing support provided by carriers, according to a 2014 national survey of more than 1,400 ...