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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Trustmark Introduces Integrated Healthy Foundations Approach to (Life Insurance) Business Wire (press


Trustmark Introduces Integrated Healthy Foundations Approach to
Business Wire (press release), CA - Jan 11, 2006 CDH approach, to automated online demonstrations that CoreSource, Starmark, Trustmark Group Insurance, Trustmark Group a broad line of life, medical, managed

MBT Financial Corp. Reports 2005 Full Year and Fourth Quarter
MSN Money - 2 hours ago With 26 offices, 38 ATMs, PhoneLink telephone banking and eLink online banking, MBT fees on mortgage loans sold 129 118 Bank Owned Life Insurance income 276

Vietnam posts bigger insurance premium revenues in 2005
People's Daily Online, China - Jan 10, 2006 "According to our initial statistics, life insurance premium revenues stood at 9.1 trillion VND (572.3 million dollars), and non-life 5.9 trillion VND (nearly

US identifies money-laundering threats
MarketWatch - Jan 11, 2006 are usually the victims of money laundering through their life insurance products, the criminals are turning to stored-value cards and online payment systems

Allstate Revolutionizing Car Insurance in America
Yahoo! News (press release) - Jan 10, 2006 television advertising featuring actor Dennis Haysbert and online and print Allstate Financial Group provides life insurance, annuity, retirement, banking and

CIGNA boss wins top award given to foreigners
People's Daily Online, China - Jan 10, 2006 Today, its joint venture operation, CIGNA & CMC Life Insurance Co Ltd, provides protection-oriented life, accident and supplemental health insurance services.

Onstream Media Wins Frost & Sullivan's 2006 Entrepreneurial
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Jan 11, 2006 Internet; and establishing e-commerce storefronts to transact business online. Media customers include: AOL, AAA, AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, Disney

Health Benefits Direct Corporation Closes $14.7 Million Financing
Yahoo! News (press release) - 9 hours ago Bulletin Board: HBDT - News) operates an online insurance marketplace that enables consumers to shop online for individual health and life insurance and obtain

Sirius CEO purchases 1 million shares
BusinessWeek - 6 hours ago ShareBuilder is a simple, flexible, and affordable way to invest online. Start building your future today! No Doctors Visit Life Insurance - GTL $250,000 in

Brainshark and iPipeline Partner to Deliver On-Demand Product
TMCnet - Jan 9, 2006 and broker-dealers with over 100 insurance companies making life easier for forms libraries (including smart, electronic, online/offline fillable

Grupo Security to take over AIG life insurance unit BNamericas, Chile - (Life Insurance)


Grupo Security to take over AIG life insurance unit
BNamericas, Chile - Jan 11, 2006 Chilean financial services group Grupo Security has offered 67bn pesos (US$128mn) to acquire 100% of the local life insurance subsidiary of US insurance giant

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Insurance mergers (Life Insurance) could get hot CNN International - Jan 4, 2006


Insurance mergers could get hot
CNN International - Jan 4, 2006 "Most life insurance companies lack the critical mass to survive long term," said Rob Haines, insurance analyst at CreditSights.

China Life Insurance Launches New Product
CRI, China - Jan 3, 2006 BEIJING- China Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (SEHK:2628) has launched a new insurance product with annual dividend. The product is seen

Spitzer agrees $2m pact with insurance firm over fraud claim
Times Online, UK - 2 hours ago and New York�s insurance commission alleged that ULR received undisclosed payments from some of America�s largest life insurance companies, including

HK PRESS: China Life Parent Seeks Dazhong Insurance Stake
Yahoo! News - Jan 3, 2006 HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--China Life Insurance (Group) Co., the state-owned parent of China Life Insurance Co. (LFC), is in talks to

Refinance Life Insurance To Save Money Monthly
CBS2 Chicago, IL - 11 hours ago Byron Turnoff wants to make sure his family is taken care of if something happens to him, so he has a term life insurance policy.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Life Insurance - NaviSys Supports TIAA-CREFNew York-based TIAA-CREF ($350 billion in assets) selected


NaviSys Supports TIAA-CREF
New York-based TIAA-CREF ($350 billion in assets) selected NaviSys' (Edison, N.J.) Enterprise Platform 9.5, a straight-through processing package, to support its policy administration.

Guardian Life's Callahan Looks Ahead
Dennis S. Callahan, Executive Vice President and CIO, Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America (New York; $39.5 billion in assets), and Insurance & Technology Reader Advisory Board member recently shared with his thoughts with I&T on the future of both Guardian and the insurance industry in general, from a technology point of view.

A for Effort

Wheeler Dealers
There's a Potential New Wrinkle that could muss up insurers' distribution strategies.

No Place Like Home
To streamline work processes and improve ease of doing business, Hartford-based The Hartford redesigned its Electronic Business Center (EBC) agent portal home page.

Eliminating Errors
P&C carrier Ohio Casualty implements TeaLeaf Technologies' RealiTea solution to proactively identify glitches with its agent-driven Web site.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Life Insurance - Rethinking Risk ManagementMany firms have allocated a disproportionate amount of


Rethinking Risk Management
Many firms have allocated a disproportionate amount of resources to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Bracing for the Claims Storm
The 2005 hurricane season served both as a test of P&C insurers' claims processing technologies and as motivation to continue to upgrade their claims systems.

Eliminating Errors
P&C carrier Ohio Casualty implements TeaLeaf Technologies' RealiTea solution to proactively identify glitches with its agent-driven Web site.

Tough Calls
Insurance contact centers face a difficult challenge in serving multiple customers, including distributors and policyholders, with very different interests. To maximize satisfaction, carriers must design contact center functionality to fit unique customer needs.

Enhancing Your Legacy
Legacy systems can be inflexible and costly to maintain, but ripping out and replacing them is risky and often just as expensive. As a result, many insurers are adopting a legacy migration approach.

Steering ComplianceTo help insurers manage the (Life Insurance) entire compliance process, Arlington,


Steering Compliance
To help insurers manage the entire compliance process, Arlington, Va.-based e-know launched Compliance Cockpit, a Web-based solution that works in conjunction with an e-mail client and browser to deploy policies, collect employee responses, track progress in real time and meet compliance objectives.

Enhancing Your Legacy
Legacy systems can be inflexible and costly to maintain, but ripping out and replacing them is risky and often just as expensive. As a result, many insurers are adopting a legacy migration approach.

WaMu Commercial Group President Leaving Company
The restructuring will shift management for Washington Mutual's prime and subprime lending businesses from the commercial group to the home loans group.

EMC Buys Captiva, Acartus
In the latest example of consolidation within the content management marketplace, EMC acquired information capture solutions vendor Captiva Software and archiving and enterprise report management vendor Acartus.

Tokyo Stock Exchange Execs Resign Over Botched Systems
After two computer failures, the exchange's president and two other executives have stepped down. Pay cuts loom for other top exchange officials.

The Next Big Thing
Industry experts point to data-related technologies as the next 'killer' insurance apps during last month's ISOTech session.

Federal Reserve Slaps ABN AMRO With $80 Million Fine For Violating Money-Laundering Laws
The Fed fines Dutch bank for wire transfers from its Dubai office that involved Iranian and Libyan clients.