Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is hoping to open a wider dialog with its customers and others through a new website.

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

A New York, N.Y.-based insurance company launched a website providing information about careers in life insurance and financial services in its attempt to hire 3,500 new insurance agents this year.

Highmark has signed a partnership agreement with PatientPoint, which provides self-service and revenue cycle management applications.

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.

Celtic Insurance Co. partnered with HealthCompare to help consumers research, compare, buy and enroll in a health insurance plan.

Two men from Illinois were charged with felony theft in connection with bilking the Million Dollar Round Table of more than $1.1 million over six years.

More effective use of online media and lead generation technologies can help locate middle-market customers who want and need specific policies.

The mobile workforce is expected to grow to 1.2 billion people (one-third of the existing global workforce) by 2013, according to IDC Research. For those of us who work from home or know someone who does, it’s easy to see why. Being a remote worker has a lot of benefits – little or no commuting time, the ability to time shift when needed, keeping a job when you have to move away, and more.

Ritter Insurance Marketing launched an Internet-based tool designed for insurance agents who are selling Medicare products, including Medicare Advantage, Part D and Medicare Supplement (Medigap).