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Business Moves: Arch Insurance Acquires Insurtech Thimble

Apr 11 2023 // Arch Insurance today said it has acquired Thimble, an insurtech platform that enables small businesses to get insurance coverage by the job, month or year using app, website, or over the phone.Terms were not disclosed....

AI ‘Trustworthiness’ Is Focal Point of New Government Inquiry

Apr 11 2023 // A US Commerce Department agency is opening an inquiry into how companies and regulators can ensure that artificial intelligence systems are trustworthy, legal and ethical.The probe by the National Telecommunications and...

UK’s FCA Hires More Than 150 Staff for Data Unit to Ramp Up Tech Capabilities

Apr 11 2023 // The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority hired more than 150 people into its Data, Technology and Innovation division in the past year as the regulator looks to ramp up its tech capabilities.The hires are part of...

Viewpoint: Optimizing Agency Relationships; A Data-Driven Approach to Premium Growth

Apr 10 2023 // Reported demise of the independent insurance agency as a sales and distribution channel have been greatly exaggerated. Over the course of a decade or more of predictions about the growth of the direct-to-consumer models,...

U.S. Airports’ Outdated Tech Leaves Planes Vulnerable to Runway Near-Misses

Apr 6 2023 // A crucial safety system that’s relied on to avoid potentially fatal collisions at major US airports is aging and plagued by outages that have left travelers unprotected for months at a time. At some airports, it...

Biden Eyes AI Dangers, Says Tech Companies Must Make Sure Products Are Safe

Apr 5 2023 // U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence (AI) is dangerous, but underscored that technology companies had a responsibility to ensure their products were safe before...

Ignited by Pandemic Changes, Insurers Embraced Innovation

Apr 5 2023 // The pandemic kickstarted the new wave of accepting and using innovative systems and methods in the insurance industry. It opened eyes to the ways that innovations and technology could do more than just efficiently get the...

Markets/Coverages: Insurtech Parsyl Launches $20M Lloyd’s Consortium for Perishable Cargo

Apr 5 2023 // Parsyl, the Denver-based insurer of essential supply chains, announced the launch of its new Essential Consortium at Lloyd’s of London.The multi-year arrangement initially will bring $20 million in new capacity to...

Insurer Startup Trium Cyber Finds Path to Profits, With Large Business Focus

Apr 3 2023 // Trium Cyber is the industry’s first Lloyd’s-approved company to provide mono-line cyber coverage for U.S. risks.Launched in January 2023, the full stack surplus lines insurer has joined the ranks of new...

Lloyd’s Lab Selects 13 Insurtechs for Its Next Innovation Accelerator

Mar 30 2023 // The Lloyd’s marketplace announced it has invited 13 insurtechs to join the next cohort of its innovation accelerator, the Lloyd’s Lab, following a competitive pitch process where the firms presented innovative...

Markets/Coverages: Reinsurance Tech Firm Tremor Launches Cat Bond Issuance Platform

Mar 30 2023 // Tremor Technologies Inc., the Boston-based reinsurance pricing and placing platform, has launched a catastrophe bond issuance platform called Tremor Issuer™.Tremor Issuer is part of the suite of Tremor services that can...

AI Leaders Urge Labs to Halt Training Models More Powerful Than ChatGPT-4

Mar 30 2023 // Artificial intelligence experts and industry leaders, including Elon Musk, University of California Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak, are calling on developers to...

Markets/Coverages: CFC Adds Professional Liability, Tech E&O to Admitted Offerings

Mar 27 2023 // Specialist insurance provider CFC recently announced the expansion of its admitted product suite with the addition of professional liability and technology E&O. The company has been trading its admitted solution for...

A-Rod-Backed Insurtech Ranger Insurance Launches in Arizona

Mar 23 2023 // Ranger, an “agent-first insurance technology company,” has launched in Arizona in what is planned as the first state in a multi-state national rollout.Ranger touts itself as an insurtech to elevate the role of...

Insurtech Kin Increases Series D Funding Round to $109 Million

Mar 23 2023 // Kin, the direct-to-consumer home insurance company, announced it conducted a third close, an incremental $15 million, to its Series D round in the fourth quarter of 2022. The investment came from Geodesic Capital, QED...

Former AIG CEO Duperreault Joins Board of InsurTech Joyn

Mar 22 2023 // InsurTech Joyn Insurance announced the addition of industry veteran Brian Duperreault to its board as an independent director.Duperreault previously served as executive chairman for AIG’s Board of Directors and as...

3 Emerging Risks to Watch: Generative AI, Deceptive Design, Bidirectional EVs

Mar 20 2023 // Innovative technologies can be transformational for businesses, industries and our way of life, but they also represent risks. Advances in new areas of tech, such as artificial intelligence (AI), are creating unforeseen...

4 Ways AI Can Benefit the Insurance Industry

Mar 15 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Advancements in technology have given new life to the slow, inefficient processes common in the insurance industry. While the influx in AI-operated systems has some...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for AI Regulation

Mar 13 2023 // The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday called for regulation of artificial intelligence technology to ensure it does not hurt growth or become a national security risk, a departure from the business lobbying...

New York City Launches Parametric Flood Program With Insurance, Tech Firms

Mar 8 2023 // Insurer Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, and the data technology firm ICEYE have teamed up with New York City government agencies to develop a pilot parametric flood recovery assistance...