While brokers and agents have long invested in agency management systems to capture and format insurance application data, and insurers have devised portals with product and service information, integrating that information has been the goal of the insurance exchange movement. An early manifestation of the exchange model is Dallas-based ...

The number of consumers shopping for auto insurance has declined, dropping to the lowest point in five years, according to the J.D. Power and Associates “2012 U.S. Insurance Shopping Study.” According to the research, only one-quarter of insurance customers shopped for a new insurer this past year, an 8–percent ...

In kasina’s yet-to-be released 2nd annual study, findings indicate that about 87 percent of asset managers and insurers use LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, but very few are experiencing increased sales. “It’s hard to track how much social media enhances the bottom line,” kasina Research Analyst Jesse Mark told Insurance ...