All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 3 2016 // Insurance company Allstate has announced plans to open an innovation hub with 400 employees at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart.The Northbrook-based company announced that the 45,000-square-foot office space will house the...
Mar 2 2016 // Florence Swanson has lived through every American car from the Ford Model T to the Tesla Model S. Now, at 94, she has stepped into what Google hopes will be the automotive future: self-driving vehicles.After her painting...
Mar 1 2016 // How much people trust technology and what type of driving alerts they respond to may have as much or more to do with the success of autonomous vehicles than technological, legal and security concerns, according to two new...
Feb 24 2016 // A company that openly berates the current insurance industry as one that sucks believes that adding behavioral science to the mix will help fix it.The New York-based startup Lemonade, which is promising to be a...
Feb 24 2016 // The U.S. cyber security industry, once one of the hottest targets for venture capitalists, is now grappling with a funding slump that has forced some startups to sell themselves or cut spending.Amid widespread concerns...
Feb 24 2016 // Oscar Health Insurance Corp. CEO Mario Schlosser has found the strategy he says will build his startup into a million-customer player in the health insurance industry: use tight, exclusive networks with hospitals to sell...
Feb 23 2016 // The insurance industry had a lot to say about what Google did wrong a day after the search engine giant said it would be pulling the plug on its year-long Google Compare experiment selling auto insurance online.Many...
Feb 22 2016 // Zenefits probably couldn’t have predicted it would spend the first two weeks of February dealing with the resignation of its founding chief executive officer under pressure from the board and the loss of its biggest...
Feb 22 2016 // Technology has transformed how we operate in almost every facet of our life. It has changed the face of business for every industry. Insurance is no different.Yet, as I look within our industry I see a problem. I see...
Feb 19 2016 // Ever since robots emerged from the pages of science-fiction novels into the real world, humans have feared being usurped in the workplace.That worry may be more fictional than scientific. A recent study by the VDMA...
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...
Feb 16 2016 // It’s an “audacious” idea, and Citigroup Inc. acknowledges as much.Google’s parent, Alphabet Inc., should buy American International Group Inc. to expand into financial services, and turn the insurer...
Feb 9 2016 // Zenefits, a software startup valued at $4.5 billion, said on Monday it had replaced founder and Chief Executive Parker Conrad and appointed a new leader for the troubled tech company.David Sacks, a former executive at...
Feb 3 2016 // Captricity Inc., an Oakland, Calif.-based startup that gives businesses in regulated industries easy access to customer data trapped in handwritten forms, has raised $35 million in a Series C round of financing led by...
Feb 2 2016 // Insurance agents aren’t dead yet, but even underwriters participating in the personal automobile insurance market may be looking for another line of work within the next two decades, industry observers said at a...
Feb 2 2016 // Willis Re, the reinsurance business of Willis Towers Watson, announced a strategic partnership with technology company Measure to advance the use of drones within the insurance industry and bring the latest drone...
Feb 1 2016 // Automation could leave up to 25 percent of the insurance industry’s current full-time positions consolidated or replaced over the next decade, McKinsey & Co. said in a new report, Automating the Insurance...
Jan 29 2016 // Repeatedly, we have described 2015 as the “year the future arrived for insurance.” Across the board, we saw significant changes in how carriers thought about the impact of new technology and innovation.It was...
Jan 28 2016 // The Travelers Companies held its first earnings call under new CEO Alan Schnitzer on Jan. 21 with the property/casualty carrier’s executives putting forth a message of continuity and normalcy, even in the face of a...
Jan 27 2016 // With firewalls no longer seen as enough of a defense against security breaches, companies are looking at new tools to foil hackers trying to enter a computer network.U.S. and Israeli startups are leading the way, with new...