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Efma & Accenture Launch Global ‘Innovation in Insurance’ Award Program
Feb 18 2016 // Efma, a Paris-based association of 3,300 financial services companies from more than 130 countries, and Accenture have launched “Innovation in Insurance,” a program that aims to identify and award the most...
Insurers Face Risks of Declining Customer Loyalty, Tech-Savvy Firms: Accenture
Aug 4 2015 // Insurers are not keeping up with rising customer expectations and will need to offer more innovative products and ally with some nontraditional partners to catch up and to keep more digital-savvy firms from stealing their...
Wearable Devices in Insurance
May 18 2015 // Nearly two-thirds of insurers expect wearable technologies to have a significant impact on the industry. According to a survey in Accenture’s annual Technology Vision report, where more than 200 insurance executives...
Insurers See Impact from Wearable Devices Within 2 Years
May 6 2015 // Nearly two-thirds of insurers expect wearable technologies to have a significant impact on the industry, according to a survey in Accenture’s annual Technology Vision report. The survey of more than 200 insurance...
Employers’ Shift to Private Health Exchanges May Cost Employees More
Apr 7 2015 // To limit the rising cost of health care, U.S. companies are increasingly turning to private insurance exchanges that let employees shop for plans, according to research from Accenture Plc. About 6 million people got health...
Independent Agents See Carriers’ Online Sales As Major Threat: Accenture Survey
Jan 26 2015 // Independent insurance agents’ strengths in customer service and risk management could be challenged by changing consumer behaviors, new technologies and the evolving competitive landscape, according to a new report...
Independent Agents See Carriers’ Online Sales As Major Threat: Accenture Survey
Jan 11 2015 // Independent insurance agents’ strengths in customer service and risk management could be challenged by changing consumer behaviors, new technologies and the evolving competitive landscape, according to a new report...
Average Claims Experience Not Enough to Retain Customers: Accenture
Nov 3 2014 // Although a large majority (86 percent) of home and auto insurance customers who have submitted a claim in the past two years are satisfied with how it was handled, 41 percent of those who have submitted a claim are still...
Average Claims Experience Not Enough to Retain Customers: Accenture
Oct 22 2014 // Although a large majority (86 percent) of home and auto insurance customers who have submitted a claim in the past two years are satisfied with how it was handled, 41 percent of those who have submitted a claim are still...
HealthCare.Gov Better But Tech Glitches Still a Concern
Aug 1 2014 // Year two of Obamacare “won’t be perfect,” a top Obama administration official said as the government’s website to sell health insurance plans continues to be developed. Andy Slavitt, the principal...
The ‘Switching’ Economy: Consumers to Buy Insurance from Google, Amazon, Verizon
Feb 24 2014 // New global research finds that as many as two-thirds (67 percent) of insurance customers would consider purchasing insurance products from organizations other than insurers, including 23 percent who would consider buying...
The ‘Switching’ Economy: Consumers Open to Buying Insurance from Google, Amazon, Verizon
Feb 7 2014 // New global research finds that as many as two-thirds (67 percent) of insurance customers would consider purchasing insurance products from organizations other than insurers, including 23 percent who would consider buying...
CGI Loses Obamacare Contract to Accenture: Report
Jan 10 2014 // CGI Group Inc., the company that built the federal Obamacare website, will be replaced next month when its contract with the U.S. government expires, a person familiar with the decision said. The Obama administration...
P/C Insurance Analysts’ Expectations Climbing: Accenture
Dec 18 2012 // Although returns-on-equity for the property/casualty insurance industry are lagging in the mid-to-upper single-digit range, equity analysts expect companies they recommend with “Buy” ratings to garner returns...
Accenture to Team with SAS Institute for Sweden’s Folksam Solvency II Regs
Apr 4 2012 // Global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company Accenture announced that it will team with SAS Institute “to implement the SAS Risk Management for Insurance solution group-wide at Folksam,...
Accenture, Guidewire Settle Patent Suits
Oct 19 2011 // Accenture and Guidewire Software Inc. have agreed to resolve all outstanding patent litigation between the companies concerning their respective insurance claims management software. San Mateo, Calif.-based Guidewire has...
Accenture Study Finds Insurers Continue Expansion Plans
Jun 10 2009 // According to findings of a survey released today by global management consulting firm Accenture, nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of insurers plan to grow outside of their home market in the next 12 months. The survey...
Analysts See Increase in P/C Mergers Ahead; Rate Climate Top Challenge
May 5 2008 // Insurance equity analysts expect a significant increase in property/casualty mergers and acquisitions this year, according to findings of a global survey by Accenture. More than two-thirds (71 percent) of all P/C analysts...
Analysts See Increase in P/C Mergers Ahead; Rate Climate Change Top Issue
Apr 14 2008 // Insurance equity analysts expect a significant increase in property/ casualty mergers and acquisitions this year, according to findings of a global survey by Accenture. More than two-thirds (71 percent) of all P/C analysts...
Accenture Solvency II Survey: Europe’s Insurers Expect Manageable Costs
Feb 12 2008 // According to findings from a recently released survey conducted by Accenture, “more than three-quarters of large European insurers expect to spend less than €25 million [$36.27 million] through 2012 on Solvency II...
