All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 14 2016 // League Inc., a Canadian health-insurance startup, is raising $25 million in a funding round backed by Omers Ventures, Royal Bank of Canada and Manulife Financial Corp.Toronto-based League lets employees find and pay for...
Jun 13 2016 // The winners of the first annual Innovation in Insurance awards include Allianz, AXA, Europ Assistance, MS&AD Insurance, and USAA.The program, jointly launched by Efma and Accenture, seeks to reward and foster...
Jun 13 2016 // Fraudsters are more often caught by tip-offs and complaints, management review, accidentally, suspicious superiors and internal audits than by use of technology and data analytics.According to consulting firm KPMG, North...
Jun 9 2016 // That’s one small step for drones, and no steps needed for mankind.Autonomous drone transport for humans. Why not? We’re eventually getting autonomous cars so you don’t have to do the driving, and drones...
Jun 7 2016 // Think of it as driver education with the car as the student and you as the instructor.That’s what it’s like in the latest version of Carnegie Mellon University’s self-driving car, a 2011 Cadillac SRX on...
Jun 7 2016 // Bunker Project Inc., a San Francisco, Calif.-based insurance technology startup, announced a $2 million seed funding round.The round was co-led by Comcast Ventures and Route 66 Ventures. Insurance carriers Hiscox and...
Jun 6 2016 // The program insurance segment has been an attractive area for property/casualty carriers in recent years and interest doesn’t appear to be faltering. While carriers have been eager to snatch-up mature and profitable...
Jun 6 2016 // A fragmented Internet, continued experimentation with monetary policy and another round of economic crises in emerging markets top Swiss Re’s latest roundup of emerging risks to watch out for.Beyond those top three,...
Jun 2 2016 // Business groups from the U.S. and around the world protested planned cybersecurity rules for the insurance industry in China in a letter to the head of the nation’s insurance regulator.The draft regulations may...
May 26 2016 // Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is helping wrestler Hulk Hogan bankroll his lawsuit against Gawker Media, according to a report in Forbes.Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, in March won a $140 million jury verdict...
May 26 2016 // A fragmented Internet, continued experimentation with monetary policy and another round of economic crises in emerging markets top Swiss Re’s latest roundup of emerging risks to watch out for.Beyond those top three,...
May 24 2016 // China’s second-biggest insurance company, Ping An Group, has become the first Chinese member of a global consortium led by fintech firm R3 which is working on ways blockchain technology can be used in financial...
May 17 2016 // Investors have given $12.2 million to fund an insurance broker offering a cloud-based risk and insurance management system for small and mid-sized businesses. The broker, Embroker, promises to empower commercial lines...
May 13 2016 // Nominations have been announced for the first Efma-Accenture Innovation in Insurance awards, launched this year to identify and award the most innovative insurance initiatives and projects around the world.Efma received...
May 9 2016 // Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Pittsburgh-area officials want the state’s regulators to greatly reduce their record-setting $11.4 million fine against ride-sharing company Uber.The Public Utility Commission fined...
May 6 2016 // Personal lines insurers are most likely to benefit from wide uses of automation in underwriting, a new report has found.“They are more likely to have a homogenous book of business and a standardized product...
May 5 2016 // The development of self-driving cars is a good example of how, and why, the future may be a less profitable place for investors.Volvo Cars, one of scads of technology and automotive firms working along the same lines, last...
May 2 2016 // In 2016, it’s easier than ever to play the financial markets. From the explosion of online brokers to the rise of robo-advisors, armchair investors have dozens of tools just a few clicks or taps away. Daily trading...
May 2 2016 // Australian tech entrepreneur Craig Wright told the BBC on Monday he was the creator of controversial digital currency bitcoin, ending years of speculation about a person who until now has gone by the name of Satoshi...
Apr 29 2016 // Trust in automation technology including driverless cars is very much age dependent, as younger consumers have a notably higher level of confidence in the technology than their older counterparts, according to the J.D....