Integration Key to Competition

While leveraging the value of legacy systems, insurers are turning to Web services and document management to increase efficiencies, reports InformationWeek research.

Insurance Innovators

13 HIP Health Plan of NY
25 Aetna
42 Ohio Casualty Group
45 Anthem
50 Cincinnati Financial Corp.
60 Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America
72 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
80 Principal Financial Group
91 Progressive Corp.
121 Cigna Corp.
138 Hartford Financial Services Group
152 American Family Insurance Group
161 Northwestern Mutual
173 Farmers Group Inc.
186 Humana Inc.
194 Tufts Associated Health Plans
215 AFLAC
221 Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
226 Allstate Insurance Co.
231 Antares Management Solutions
240 Minnesota Life Insurance Co.
245 Nationwide
253 Allmerica Financial
281 Health Alliance Plan
285 The MONY Group
288 Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ
290 New York Life Insurance Co.
291 Highmark
332 Capital Blue Cross
340 Pacific Life Insurance Co.
369 Transatlantic Holdings Inc.
394 Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
411 Jefferson-Pilot Financial
412 Chubb & Son Inc.
416 Oxford Health Plans Inc.
422 American United Life Insurance
425 Converium
435 Pacificare Health Systems Inc.
499 Highmark Life & Casualty Group

Source: InformationWeek

In this year's InformationWeek500 ranking, 39 insurance companies have been recognized for technology and business practices that demonstrate patterns of technological, procedural and organizational innovation.

An award winning writer and journalist, for more than 20 years George Hulme has written about business, technology, and IT security topics. He currently freelances for a wide range of publications, and is security blogger at InformationWeek.com. View Full Bio

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