Magazine: NOVEMBER 2008
Cover Story
With the combined talents of the business units and IT, the best of today’s business analysts bring a broader skill set to the job. With a deep understanding of insurance and technology, they are able...
Columns
Trends & Tech
Nearly two decades ago, on Christmas Day 1990, Tim Berners-Lee “invented” the World Wide Web when he connected two computers using HTTP via the Internet. I am not quite sure where Al Gore was that day...
CIO Chronicles
If you’ve never been to Torrey Pines State Park in San Diego, it is worth the trip. The sweeping landscapes full of green pines, cacti, and twisting trails all converge upon dramatic cliffs that dip a...
Tech Tattler
Certainly Sens. John McCain and Barak Obama have substantive differences on a host of issues, but when it comes to technology, it sounds like the same person could have written both of their platforms...
Stats Watch
What does the short-term future look like for personal auto insurance in the U.S.? Novarica principal Chad Hersh has authored a study on the market and believes challenges lie ahead for carriers, part...
Departments
Industry Intelligence
However, what bothers insurers is—whether there had been federal regulation of the insurance industry or the current state regulation—insurance regulations as we know them would not have been able to ...
ICW Group has entered the small-business market for workers’ comp insurance by launching Snap Instant Quote, the insurance carrier’s new small-business underwriting software. ICW Group now offers its ...
Business Solutions
Reinsurance is a necessary part of Farmers Life’s business strategy, according to Ayleene Hartman, reinsurance actuary with Farmers Life. “We’ve always had a good relationship with our reinsurers and ...
A.M. Best Co. rating service is increasing its combined ratio loss estimate for the property/casualty industry by close to five points from its projection at the beginning of the year, pushing the fig...
Top Tech
George Napoles, CIO at Jackson National Life Insurance Company, sets high standards for those who work in his department. All potential IT employees first must take a programmer’s aptitude test that e...
News
What should insurance IT leadership do when the financial markets commonly are described as being a devastating bloodbath, hit by a train or in a terrifying plummet, a spectacular free-fall, or a...