A majority (78%) of health care executives are focusing on operations to reduce costs next year, a “significant” increase in cost-savings projects since 2010, a new survey says.

A Winston-Salem, N.C.-based insurance company announced that its members now can buy homeowner’s and travel insurance, as well as other products, on its website.

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An insurer for Sony Corp. asked a court to excuse it from paying the conglomerate’s legal defense after a data breach in April, and challenged Sony’s other insurers to define the extent of their coverage.

Insurance agents’ relationships with insurers may change as insurers face multiple challenges in maintaining growth in a “slowly recovering” economy, a new report says.

Health Net Inc. is investigating the apparent loss of several server drives containing employee, member and health care provider information from its data center in Rancho Cordova, Calif.

The insurance industry is expected to adapt more cloud computing, which offers “affordable and flexible” services that “level the playing field and let small companies compete,” professionals say.

MSO Inc., a Glen Rock, N.J.-based property-casualty ratings service bureau, is affiliating with CTS-Consulting, a management consulting firm based in Blue Bell, Pa.

In the past your options were limited with the traditional IT model of buying hardware, software, hiring IT vendors and then buying more hardware. With the advent of cloud computing options exist for you to off-load all those headaches to a trusted partner and instead use your energy on agency development.

CareFirst has undergone a reorganization designed to allow the insurer’s clients to receive service from “end to end” from people dedicated to specific delivery channels of the overall business.

Two of the major trade associations in the health insurance industry are piloting a new program in New Jersey aimed at reducing time and expense for physician offices and patients.