All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 16 2018 // The surprise resignation of an Indian tech billionaire has pulled corporate India deeper into the #MeToo firestorm that’s been sweeping through the American business community for more than a year.Walmart Inc....
Nov 16 2018 // The Travelers Companies has partnered with contractor company Gilbane, and Triax Technologies, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) construction technology, to explore the potential safety benefits of wearable...
Nov 14 2018 // Fast-growing insurance agency Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty has taken a technology leap forward by acquiring Boston-based online home and auto Insurance agency Goji (formerly Consumers United) and its technology...
Nov 8 2018 // Insurance industry trailblazer Patrick Ryan thinks the insurance program business could be headed for interesting times given recent consolidation in the retail insurance agency sector, an influx of capital and the recent...
Nov 8 2018 // Many insurtechs find one problem and try to solve it. Broker Buddha is among them. This platform takes static PDF insurance carrier applications and converts them into interactive online smart forms that agents and their...
Nov 6 2018 // Insurtech Slice, which offers its own on-demand rideshare and homeshare products, now also provides cloud services for carriers wanting to offer their own on-demand products.The growing digital insurer and services...
Nov 5 2018 // The Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) announced the launch of a new insurtech accelerator program, PROTO InsurTech, to inspire and stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in the insurance industry.Two major...
Nov 5 2018 // Pulling together some loose threads from October’s Insuretech Connect Conference, here are 10 takeaways: Innovation Rap. “I actually feel the industry gets a bad rap in terms of innovation,” Dan Glaser,...
Nov 1 2018 // Ping An Insurance Group Co., China’s biggest insurer by market value, is planning a Hong Kong initial public offering of its health-care technology unit that could raise about $2 billion, people with knowledge of the...
Nov 1 2018 // Tech-driven virtual claims services company Snapsheet started out as a service for body shops called Body Shop Bids before pivoting to serving insurers five years ago. Alex Meisner, director of innovation, is one of the...
Oct 29 2018 // AFL Insurance Brokers, the London-based Lloyd’s broker, was looking for an MGA platform in the United States and found the perfect partner last month when it purchased Zodiac Insurance Services, which specializes in...
Oct 26 2018 // Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB), part of Munich Re, announced the close of the acquisition of relayr, Inc., the Berlin-based industrial internet of things technology company.HSB acquired 100 percent of relayr’s shares...
Oct 26 2018 // A body of U.S. state banking regulators on Thursday sued the federal government to void its decision to award national bank charters to online lenders and payment companies, saying it was unconstitutional and puts...
Oct 26 2018 // Keep an eye out for Openly, a new digitally-sophisticated upmarket homeowners insurer catering to independent agents.According to Ty Harris, founder and CEO, Openly will launch in early 2019 in a yet-to-be-announced large...
Oct 25 2018 // Pie Insurance seems to be slicing its way through workers’ compensation markets in state after state.The Washington, D.C.-based insurtech is a direct provider of workers’ comp that touts its ability to leverage...
Oct 24 2018 // Concirrus, the London-based insurtech company specializing in marine analytics, announced it has formed a multi-year agreement with insurance broker Marsh.The agreement will see the two companies working together to drive...
Oct 23 2018 // The 2018 InsureTech Connect (ITC) conference is history. In its short three-year life, the ITC affair has grown from 1,500 to 6,000 attendees. This year, an estimated 500 CEOs were there.“It’s hard to...
Oct 22 2018 // Automated customer service is a fact of life. In fact, many people are more comfortable sharing personal details with a machine than with a human. But automation must appreciate that not every customer is a 40 year-old...
Oct 19 2018 // Google is eager to invest in other insurance technology companies well beyond its newly announced minority stake in Applied Systems, a principal investor with the global search engine giant said on Oct. 17.“We really...
Oct 19 2018 // Aon plc announced it has formed a new unit called New Ventures Group, which is designed to increase Aon’s investment in innovative new businesses.The global unit will identify, incubate and deliver new sources of...