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Insurer Ageas Uses AI to Create End-to-End Car Damage Assessments in UK

Mar 26 2020 // Ageas is using artificial intelligence (AI) to create end-to-end assessments and estimates of vehicle damage, which it says is a first for a UK insurance company.Ageas is using an AI solution, developed by technology...

Ohio Commercial Insurance Insurtech, Coterie, Raises $8.5M in Financing

Mar 25 2020 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based insurtech Coterie, which specializes in commercial insurance, has closed an oversubscribed Series A financing round totaling $8.5 million from RPM Ventures, Allos Ventures, and others.The company...

RMS CEO White: Embracing Change in a Transforming Industry

Mar 19 2020 // During her career, Karen White, the CEO of RMS, has had a front-row seat to observe what happens with companies and industries in transformation and how enormous value—and disruption—can be created.While some people...

P/C Insurers Score Low for Innovation, While Reinsurers Do Better: AM Best

Mar 18 2020 // In an initial test of its new innovation assessment scores, AM Best found that only 1 percent of rated property/casualty insurers merit scores high enough to categorize them as innovation leaders, according to a recent...

Report: Testers in California Logged 2.8M Autonomous Miles Last Year

Mar 17 2020 // Each year technology’s promise of having autonomous vehicles ruling the roads seems to be a bit more fleeting, or at least a bit further off, but that hasn’t stalled the efforts of would-be makers of...

Cattle Ranchers Worry Despite Having Tech to Track Diseases

Mar 17 2020 // Before June 2018, finding cattle that were potentially exposed to diseases was time-consuming and complicated, requiring a patchwork of information from auction houses, feedlots, producers and meatpacking...

Innovation, Economic Growth Depend on Taking Risks, Tolerating Failure: Viewpoint

Mar 17 2020 // While concerns loom over an impending recession caused by the spread of COVID-19, policymakers and business leaders have implemented radical strategies, such as slashing interest rates to invigorate the country’s...

Watch Out for Virus-Tied Cyber Attacks on Remote Workers, Warns Tech Professor

Mar 17 2020 // The heightened fear and anxiety that COVID-19 is causing people worldwide brings vulnerable targets for cyber hackers.“We are living in a heightened time of cyber risk. Cyber criminals will take advantage of public...

P/C Insurers Expect Smaller M&As to Continue in 2020

Mar 13 2020 // Despite a sharp decline in M&A activity in 2019 and continuing economic uncertainty, more than half of the property/casualty insurance executives surveyed by Deloitte still expect to complete an M&A transaction in...

Coronavirus Drives Patients to Online Doctors, Spurring Telemedicine Sector

Mar 13 2020 // The new coronavirus that’s forcing lockdowns and roiling economies is spurring a silent revolution in the field of telemedicine.As COVID-19 spreads across Europe, leaving new patients in its wake, the fear of...

Swiss Re Launches Digital Market Center Supported by Microsoft Data Analytics, AI Tools

Mar 12 2020 // Swiss Re has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp., which is providing digital tools to support Swiss Re’s new Digital Market Center.The Digital Market Center is designed to help develop next-generation,...

Aon and Willis Towers Watson Say Merger Is All About ‘Getting Better, Not Bigger’

Mar 10 2020 // There are several talking points that are evident about the planned merger of broking giants Aon and Willis Towers Watson. First, it’s not about getting bigger; it’s about getting better. And, second,...

Iowa’s BrokerTech Ventures Adds 5 New Agency Partners, Names Hatten as COO

Mar 10 2020 // BrokerTech Ventures (BTV), the Des Moines, Iowa-based broker-led investor group and accelerator program, has added five new investor partners/sponsors, including Heffernan Insurance Brokers Inc., The Horton Group, Inc.,...

Insurtech INSTANDA Raises $19.5M to Support International Expansion

Mar 10 2020 // INSTANDA, the London-based customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, has completed a $19.5 million Series A fundraising round, the company announced.Led by Assembly Capital Partners, the...

Lemonade Starts Fund to Encourage Socially Positive Use of AI, Data and Technology

Mar 5 2020 // Digital insurer Lemonade has established a nonprofit foundation designed to promote the use of AI, data and software to build socially positive products and programs globally.Dubbed The Lemonade Foundation, the...

InsurTech NY Announces Finalists for 2020 InsurTech Competition

Mar 5 2020 // InsurTech NY, an insurtech community in the New York metro area, has announced the finalists of its 2020 InsurTech Competition.More than 200 startups applied to compete in a two-track competition, pitting early and...

Verisk Expands Insurtech Solution OneXperience into Commercial Insurance

Mar 5 2020 // Insurance data analytics and risk modeling firm Verisk announced the expansion of its new insurtech solution OneXperience into commercial insurance.This expansion will enable agents and businesses to engage and closely...

U.S. Lags Europe in Driver Assist Technology Safety Testing

Mar 2 2020 // Autopilot, Super Cruise and Drive Pilot are different names given to technology that automates steering and braking in a growing number of vehicles, but none of it can safely “pilot” cars without regular human...

Agency M&As: Private Equity Still in Driver’s Seat; Digital Agencies Attract Attention

Mar 2 2020 // The private equity bandwagon continued to roll through the insurance agency and brokerage mergers and acquisitions territory in 2019. As many as two-thirds of all deals involved private equity, according to experts. Most...

Insurtech: It’s not Just for Carriers Anymore

Feb 28 2020 // Until recently, insurtech not only was perceived as a competitive threat to independent agents, there was little startup activity dedicated to tackling the operational needs of insurance agents and brokers. That’s...