A proposed national insurance regulatory office would give the federal government a window into the insurance business and allow it to identify and respond to emerging issues more readily than state insurance departments.
Moreover, a national insurance regulatory office would give Congress the leverage is presently lacks to force action to address new problems.
Promontory Financial Group, [...]

The Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco has appointed Ned Moran as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer.
Mr. Moran is responsible for ensuring that all information systems and services meet the Bank’s operational and strategic objectives. He has over 23 years of information technology experience in the financial [...]

Duck Creek Technologies, Inc. a leading provider of software and service solutions for the insurance industry, today announced that United America Indemnity Group, Inc. (”United America”) has implemented Duck Creek’s Policy Administration solution for a number of its Commercial ISO lines products. The PA-based carrier went live within six months with a custom Vacant Property [...]

Health Net Federal Services, LLC, the government operations division of Health Net, Inc. released the following statement today in response to the Department of Defense’s release of the TRICARE contract awards:
“Health Net Federal Services is disappointed not to be selected by TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) for the Managed Care Support Contractor in the TRICARE North [...]

VantisLife Insurance Company announced that Astoria Federal Savings, headquartered in Lake Success, NY, will now offer insurance products via the company’s award-winning online quote and submit system. The offering will be made through VantisLife’s New York Company, VantisLife Insurance Company of New York.
Astoria Federal has been serving the New York market with quality financial [...]

RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. announced the successful completion of the “Safe Homes for All” Risk Mitigation Leadership Forum, held in Washington, D.C. on June 24th. The Forum’s principal sponsors were RenaissanceRe’s affiliate, WeatherPredict Consulting Inc. and the RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences Foundation, together with leading non-profit organizations Federal Alliance for Safe Homes – FLASH®, the Institute for [...]

VantisLife Insurance Company announced that Astoria Federal Savings, headquartered in Lake Success, NY, will now offer insurance products via the company’s award-winning online quote and submit system. The offering will be made through VantisLife’s New York Company, VantisLife Insurance Company of New York.
Astoria Federal has been serving the New York market with quality financial products [...]

This week, as congressional leaders debate legislation designed to reform the nation’s healthcare system, eHealth, Inc’s. Chairman and CEO Gary Lauer discussed the organization’s commitment to helping enroll the 47 million Americans who are uninsured. Additionally, eHealth released its policy recommendations, which are based on its proven success in connecting nearly two million Americans to [...]

FIS Software, a provider of enterprise level end to end insurance policy administration systems, today announced that Binghamton, New York based Columbian Financial Group (CFG) has completed the implementation of FIS’s Agency Management System (AMS), a component of FIS’s flagship ALIS policy administration platform. With AMS, CFG now manages its independent agent workforce using a [...]

The National Center for Regulatory Reform, developed by attorneys deeply involved in representing the victims of the federal and state governments’ failure to regulate the financial and insurance industries, today expressed its concerns that the new regulations proposed by the current administration will do more harm than good.
Under the plan, the government would have new [...]