All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 7 2018 // The newly formed healthcare venture of Amazon.com Inc, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Tuesday hired Jack Stoddard as chief operating officer.Stoddard was previously general manager for digital...
Sep 4 2018 // Aon plc has promoted Catherine Mulligan and Luke Foord-Kelcey within its Reinsurance Solutions business to strengthen its suite of cyber products for insurers.As global head of Cyber for Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions...
Sep 4 2018 // Munich Re announced it is taking a further key step to create new business models in industrial Internet of Things (IoT) through the acquisition of the software company “relayr” via Munich Re’s...
Sep 3 2018 // The wave of innovation has taken the insurance industry by storm, forever changing organizations, processes and people alike. Risk management telematics are calculating accurate policies for underwriters, big data is...
Sep 3 2018 // I was surprised to learn I was named one of the 50 most influential people in the United States/Western Europe for Insurtech. The fact that I was the only person, I believe, listed who makes their living on their own name...
Aug 31 2018 // Zurich Insurance Group believes a competition will help it find cutting-edge startups and entrepreneurs with whom to collaborate in the insurtech space.The Swiss insurer launched what it is calling the Zurich Innovation...
Aug 28 2018 // One-in-five consumers say they would use Amazon or Google for their home insurance, a J.D. Power survey released today shows.And most of those who took the survey (80 percent) already have insurance with a large national...
Aug 28 2018 // As MyCrypto mulled what benefits to offer employees, the new blockchain startup asked them what they wanted. “Surprisingly, we found that the traditional health benefits and 401(k) benefits—they had no interest in...
Aug 23 2018 // Root Insurance raised a $100 million financing round in a bid to fuel market expansion and hiring as the auto insurance startup with its telematics-based platform goes national.Tiger Global Management led the Series D...
Aug 22 2018 // Insurance premiums generated by emerging insurtech services will exceed $400 billion by 2023, up from an estimated $187 billion in 2018, according to a new study from U.K.-based Juniper Research.The study found that while...
Aug 21 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved a license for States Title, the first insurtech title insurer licensed and domiciled in California.States Title Insurance Company of California will use data-driven...
Aug 21 2018 // Technology does a lot but it can’t do everything. Sometimes insurance agents and other business people forget that. They become so dependent on email and social media that they lose sight of what people really need...
Aug 20 2018 // ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co. Ltd., the first internet-only insurer in China, announced its subsidiary ZhongAn International will receive a strategic investment from SoftBank Vision Fund, which will support the...
Aug 20 2018 // What is the best part about working in insurance?For a group of millennials speaking with Insurance Journal at a July roundtable, the answer was simple. “The people,” roundtable participants agreed.At the same...
Aug 20 2018 // 1. RTSP! Read the Stinkin’ Policy! Don’t guess about coverage. Your prospects and clients depend upon you and your knowledge. When in doubt…read the stinkin’ policy! Too often agents rely upon what...
Aug 17 2018 // Protean Risk, the London-based specialist Lloyd’s broker for asset management, financial services and technology firms, has appointed Tristan Sargeaunt as director of Fintech and Payment Services, where he will...
Aug 17 2018 // You’re crossing the street wrong.That is essentially the argument some self-driving car boosters have fallen back on in the months after the first pedestrian death attributed to an autonomous vehicle and amid growing...
Aug 16 2018 // A new insurtech agency has entered the Florida homeowners market space with a rating engine offering quotes from multiple domestic carriers and the ability to purchase coverage in one transaction.HoneyQuote.com, launching...
Aug 15 2018 // Imagine there’s a way for institutional investors to trade insurance risks much like they trade stocks. Well, imagine no more. A new and unique reinsurer, Extraordinary Re, has hit upon the novel idea of creating a...
Aug 14 2018 // Auto insurance shoppers are placing a greater importance on having more services provided to them today versus five years ago, underscoring the fact that shoppers are increasingly demanding more product options and more...