Latest InsurTech Headlines

All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Just Get Started: Chad Hawkinson and Your Data Journey

Oct 10 2019 // Denver, CO, October 10, 2019 – It’s all about data and analytics in the insurance industry today, and agencies are leaning into advancements in InsurTech to better their business. The transition to a data-driven...

How The Hanover Is Investing in Digital Tools for Agents, Customers

Oct 8 2019 // As insurers embrace insurtech in multiple ways, The Hanover Insurance Group’s Richard Lavey offers some advice: Not everything works as initially envisioned, and that’s OK.“‘If you build it, they...

Insurtech FRISS and Munich Re Extend Partnership to Support Insurers Fighting Fraud

Oct 8 2019 // FRISS, the insurtech provider of AI-powered anti-fraud solutions for the P&C insurance industry, has extended its partnership with Munich Re to now support insurers in their fight against fraud.Following their...

How Drones Are Digitally Transforming Insurance Claims Inspections and Workflows

Oct 7 2019 // Somewhere in central Michigan, a pickup truck drives into a sleepy suburban neighborhood. An autonomous drone takes flight off the truck’s flatbed and, nearly silently, heads a half-mile east, slowing above a...

Munich Re Backs Small Business Insurtech Next Insurance with $250 Million

Oct 7 2019 // Insurtech Next Insurance has pulled in a $250 million financing round from a single investor: Munich Re.Palo Alto-based Next said it plans to use the Series C cash infusion to scale up its small business insurance products...

InsureTech Connect: The Insurance Industry Needs to Understand What Business It’s In

Oct 7 2019 // People who buy gasoline generally don’t care for the product or enjoy the experience of pumping gas: They just want to drive.Chris Colborn, chief experience officer for the Lippincott creative consulting firm, opened...

Iowa’s BrokerTech Ventures Adds Four New Investment Partners

Oct 4 2019 // Des Moines, Iowa-based BrokerTech Ventures, a broker-led investor group and accelerator program, is has added four new investor partners, including Assurance, Graham Company, InterWest Insurance Services, and Hylant...

Insurers, Tech Firms Scramble to Keep Up With Cyber Risks

Oct 4 2019 // Despite progress, carriers are still falling short in how they approach cyber insurance and also how they cover events when they happen.How can this be? The unique makeup of cyber risks continues to hold them back,...

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Grows by Another State

Oct 3 2019 // Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday ordered his administration to start working on regulations to bring Pennsylvania into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.The initiative is a nine-state consortium that sets prices...

Global Insurance Accelerator Boosts Its Funding for Insurtech Startups

Oct 3 2019 // The Iowa-based Global Insurance Accelerator will nearly double its seed funding for insurtechs accepted into the program in 2020.Nicole Gunderson, managing director for the GIA, said the increase is a way for the GIA,...

How the Future of Insurtech Innovation Is Tied to the Traditions of Regulation

Oct 3 2019 // It’s no secret: Innovators and regulators often clash. But both are needed to help enable a dynamic, consumer-friendly property/casualty industry in the future, insurance and insurtech experts said...

Watch Out Insurtechs: Nationwide Readies Own Digital Auto Insurance Platform

Oct 1 2019 // Nationwide plans on striking hard against digital insurer upstart competitors with the debut of Spire, a digital auto insurance platform with an eye on millennial customers.Spire, which will be rolled out in the 2019...

AI Specialist omni:us Awarded €1.6M from EU to Enhance AI-Powered Claims Platform

Sep 26 2019 // Artificial intelligence provider, omni:us has been awarded €1.6 million ($1.8 million) from the European Commission* to help it further develop its machine learning powered insurance claims platform.The grant to...

InsureTech Connect: Insurance Industry Needs to Understand What Business It’s In

Sep 26 2019 // LAS VEGAS — People who buy gasoline generally don’t care for the product or enjoy the experience of pumping gas: They just want to drive.Chris Colborn, chief experience officer for the Lippincott creative...

Rethinking the Limits of Parametric Insurance

Sep 24 2019 // It’s time to rethink the limits of parametric insurance.The concept behind parametric insurance is not new. Insurance payouts automatically triggered by an event exceeding an index level have existed for decades....

Commercial Lines Insurtech Bold Penguin Raises $32 Million in Latest Round

Sep 23 2019 // Bold Penguin, a Columbus Ohio commercial insurance technology provider, said it has completed a $32 million Series B funding round, bringing the total capital it has raised to more than $50 million since it started in...

The Lowdown: Reimagining Research to Recognize Emerging Insurance Industry Trends

Sep 19 2019 // The Society of Insurance Research (SIR) will hold their 49th Annual Conference on October 20th – 22nd at the Sheraton Charlotte Hotel in Charlotte, NC and I am thrilled to be attending. The theme for this year’s...

Agencies Form Venture to Accelerate, Invest in Insurtech Startups for Agents, Brokers

Sep 19 2019 // Six insurance agencies from across the country have joined together to form a program specifically for investors and innovators behind technology innovations for insurance agencies and brokerages.The new entity, BrokerTech...

Insurtechs Poised to Challenge Traditional Home Insurers: J.D. Power

Sep 18 2019 // Traditional home insurers appear to be in need of an image change, and that, in turn, could create a big opportunity for insurtech startups, according to the latest J.D. Power U.S. Home Insurance study.Approximately 74...

Iowa’s Global Insurance Accelerator to Host 17 Firms for InsurTech Week 2019

Sep 17 2019 // The Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA), a Des Moines, Iowa-based InsurTech accelerator focused on innovation for the insurance industry, says 17 companies will participate in its fifth annual InsurTech Week, being held...