Alan Hughes Named BCBSNC CIO
5/29/2009Hughes comes to Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina from GE Financial, where he has been CIO for Global Risk Management and Distribution Finance.
Profile of Anthony O'Donnell
Blog Posts: 2240Anthony O'Donnell has covered technology in the insurance industry since 2000, when he joined the editorial staff of Insurance & Technology. As an editor and reporter for I&T and the InformationWeek Financial Services of TechWeb he has written on all areas of information technology in the property/casualty, life and health insurance industries, following the trends and issues faced by senior technology executives. In addition to reporting and editorial duties for I&T, O'Donnell also serves as a moderator and speaker at industry events and broadcasts. He began his editorial career in the healthcare industry where he reported and edited for medical publications with a variety of audiences, from the general public to physicians and researchers. He has also worked in the healthcare field as a media relations professional and Spanish/English interpreter/translator, and has taught English composition and conversation classes to native speakers of Spanish, both in the United States and in Latin America. O'Donnell lives in the Portland, Oregon area with his wife and two sons.
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Hughes comes to Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina from GE Financial, where he has been CIO for Global Risk Management and Distribution Finance.
Allstate Opens Green Data Center
5/29/2009The Rochelle, Ill.-based center, built to meet LEED Gold certification, takes advantage of the city's high capacity fiber-optics network.
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5/29/2009Mathas succeeds Sy Sternberg, who had remained chairman of the board of directors in a non-executive capacity following his retirement June 30, 2008.
Automation Service for Insurers Launched on SWIFT
5/28/2009Following a 12-month pilot, the new service is planned to be available to any carrier who wants to participate in what SWIFT calls a shared vision of faster, more standardized settlement of insurance and reinsurance transactions.
Earnix Integrates Risk and Behavior Modeling Into New Solution
5/27/2009Earnix Risk Premium Module enables faster and more accurate results for optimizing customer value through advanced modeling techniques, the vendor claims.
eGistics and Global 360 Forge Alliance
5/26/2009The strategic partnership will enable Global 360 to provide a secure hosted enterprise SaaS delivery environment for Global 360 applications and to offer long-term hosted storage on eGistics' data centers.
AXA Equitable Promotes Eric Lhomond to Senior Vice President
5/26/2009Lhomond heads the company's Hedging Programs Management and reports to Richard Dziadzio, executive vice president and CFO.
The Key to Keeping Customers Is Getting to Know Them
5/22/2009Carriers that get to know their customers well -- by effectively leveraging collected data and by simply listening to what they say -- have a huge advantage in a tough insurance market.
Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers Enjoys Five-Fold Improvement with GT Software Solution
5/22/2009By using GT Software's Ivory Data Access for mainframe data transfer, CAR was able to solve data congestion and delays caused by error-triggered batch reruns.
AIG’s Liddy Will Step Down
5/22/2009AIG's board concurs with Liddy that the CEO and chairman roles should be separated and says it will conduct a search to fill each position.
Hannover Life Re Names Paul Smith CIO
5/21/2009Smith's priorities include systems integration in the wake of Hannover Re's acquisition of ING's individual life reinsurance business.
Implications of Oracle/Sun Slight for Insurance in the Short Term
5/15/2009Oracle's bid to acquire Sun is groundbreaking from a general technology point of view but its meaning for the insurance industry is likely to manifest itself over a longer timeframe, as the vendor's strategy evolves.
North Waterloo Farmers Mutual Goes Live With Broker Download
5/13/2009For the first phase of the carrier's broker portal initiative, vendors playing key roles included iter8, Mutual Concept Computer Group, Applied Systems, Keal Technology, and Custom Software Solutions.
Norwich Union To Deploy ClickSoftware
5/12/2009The vendor's ServiceOptimization Suite will be deployed in the carrier's auto insurance business to more efficiently schedule field engineer appointments.
SafeAuto Adds New Audatex Analytics Solution
5/11/2009A multi-year renewal contract adds the Audatex Insight solution to the suite of the vendor's products used by the Columbus, Ohio based auto insurer.
Wilton Re Signs $90 Million Outsourcing Contract with CSC
5/6/2009Ten-year contract includes full back-office administration services for an additional 270,000 life policies to be converted onto the vendor's CyberLife policy admin system.
Zurich’s TOM Intiative Takes Aim at Long-Term Profitable Growth
5/5/2009Zurich Financial Services' Target Operating Model initiative is built to anticipate the future demands of the market while building in flexibility.
Guardian Launches Consumer-Driven Healthcare Plan
5/5/2009The new offering combines a high-deductible plan with a triple tax-free health savings account and supplemental critical illness coverage.
Insurance CIOs Deal With the Pressure of Today’s Economic Climate
5/5/2009The top technology post can be stressful at the best of times. Some distinguished insurance CIOs share their personal strategies for dealing with the demands of the job.
Conning Research: P&C Offshore BPO May Accelerate
5/4/2009Property/Casualty insurers save an average of 32 percent on offshore versus onshore business process outsourcing alternatives, according to Conning Research & Consulting.
Star Casualty Signs For Connective Technologies’ TEAM-UP Download
5/1/2009The contract with Connective Technologies will support the Coral Gables, Fla.-based P&C carrier's business through agents in Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
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