All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 18 2017 // Hyperloop Transportation Technologies wants to build a tube-based inter and intra-city transportation system to transport passengers and cargo at high speeds. As part of its efforts to gain support, it sought to assure...
Oct 17 2017 // Freehold, NJ, October 17, 2017 — Mgaero welcomes InsurTech industry executive Alex Tsetsenekos as head of business development. Tsetsenekos brings nearly twenty years of diverse leadership experience in the insurance...
Oct 17 2017 // Markel International, the specialist insurer, has unveiled a fintech policy offering comprehensive protection for businesses in the financial technology sector in Asia, having successfully launched it in the UK early last...
Oct 13 2017 // Root Insurance has expanded its services to drivers in Utah.Root, which is now operating in Illinois, Oklahoma, Indiana, Ohio and Arizona, asserts that drivers can save up to 52 percent by using Root’s data-driven...
Oct 12 2017 // Digital business insurance agency CoverWallet said it has closed a $18.5 million Series B funding round led by Foundation Capital with participation from existing investors Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, CV Starr...
Oct 12 2017 // The World Economic Forum is bringing insurers, tech firms and governments together to find ways to tackle risks from new technology such as drones and driverless cars, it said on Thursday.Tech firms have moved fast to...
Oct 12 2017 // Lemonade announced Tuesday that it launched a public API (application programming interface), allowing anyone to seamlessly offer Lemonade policies through their apps or websites.The insurtech home insurer announced:...
Oct 12 2017 // In the wake of three devastating hurricanes this season, many carriers and vendors used drones and airplanes to assess structural storm damage. This use of aerial imaging combined with machine learning has fostered...
Oct 10 2017 // The world sits on the precipice of the fourth industrial revolution, as a coming wave of disruptive technology in fields like artificial intelligence, machine learning, the mobile internet and 3-D printing remake entire...
Oct 10 2017 // Willis Towers Watson said it has strengthened its Insurance Consulting and Technology business with two new senior appointments.Based in London, Neil Bruce joins the UK P&C Insurance Consulting and Technology team from...
Oct 9 2017 // Lloyd’s of London wants to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) technology into the daily business it does with its customers.The world’s largest insurance market signed a global deal with Expert System that...
Oct 5 2017 // Slice Labs Inc., a company offering an on-demand insurance platform for rideshare and homeshare risks in the United States, has announced a Series A investment of $11.6 million led by XL Innovate, with participation from...
Oct 5 2017 // Guy Carpenter & Co., the reinsurance brokerage subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Cos., has appointed Claude Yoder as managing director and global chief innovation and product officer, effective Sept. 18.Yoder is based...
Oct 4 2017 // The Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA), based in Des Moines, Iowa, announced that W. R. Berkley Corp. (W. R. Berkley), will join the GIA board of directors through a commitment to be an investor.Founded in 1967 and based...
Oct 4 2017 // Oddly-named Pie Insurance took an initial step toward entering the workers’ compensation insurance market at the InsureTech Connect conference in Las Vegas by introducing an interactive pricing tool for small and...
Oct 4 2017 // Insurance company employees wondering where all their bosses are this week should not be worried. It’s a good bet the executives are safe in Las Vegas at the second annual InsureTech Connect Conference. More than...
Oct 2 2017 // The Insuretech Connect Conference scheduled to open today in Las Vegas at Caesar’s Palace will still be held as planned in the wake of the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, according to the organizers.“Last...
Oct 2 2017 // XL Catlin’s internal innovation team, Accelerate, announced it is working with Cytora, a UK-based insurtech startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and open source data to improve the way insurers quantify,...
Sep 28 2017 // Chicago, Ill.-based Clearcover announced an initial funding round of $11.5 million led by Lightbank.Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Silicon Valley Bank, and other insurance and fintech investors also participated in the...
Sep 27 2017 // Startupbootcamp, a London-based insurance accelerator that focuses on identifying globally-located disruptive and collaborative insurance and technology innovations, has announced the launch of its new InsurTech...