All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 20 2018 // As a teenager working for his dad’s construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building projects.Now the...
Mar 20 2018 // The technology behind autonomous vehicles has originated from coders in Silicon Valley, engineers in Detroit and academic researchers in Pittsburgh. Much of it eventually lands on the streets of Arizona, a state...
Mar 19 2018 // Advancements in technology are driving continued evolution throughout the insurance industry. From insurtech and telematics to artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization, the industry continues to face increased...
Mar 19 2018 // Insurance industry technology is experiencing a revolution. While insurance carriers and venture capital firms have been behind much of today’s insurtech innovation, insurance agents and brokers have also jumped into...
Mar 16 2018 // Microsoft Corp.’s investigators concluded that fewer than 1 percent of gender-discrimination complaints made internally were “founded,” according to data unsealed in an ongoing class-action lawsuit.The...
Mar 15 2018 // BMS Group Ltd., the London-based re/insurance broking arm of Minova Insurance, announced the launch of BMS Innovation Labs, a platform that aims to drive change and innovation within the company and the wider insurance...
Mar 14 2018 // Grab, the Southeast Asia on-demand transportation and fintech platform, announced a partnership with Chubb to offer insurance solutions for Grab’s drivers.Using the Grab app, drivers will be able to select different...
Mar 14 2018 // Large commercial brokers transacting business with multiple carriers and distributors are seeking to differentiate themselves in a competitive marketplace through improved technology such as artificial intelligenceI,...
Mar 13 2018 // In the wait for self-driving technology, cell-phone toting tech bros may have to cede their spot in line to pizzas, Craigslist couches and the mounting ephemera of e-commerce.The future—at least in the near-term—will...
Mar 13 2018 // Flock, a London based startup, has launched Europe’s first “pay-as-you-fly” drone insurance solution.The “Flock Cover” smartphone app provides on-demand insurance for commercial drone pilots...
Mar 7 2018 // Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., a Cayman Islands-based specialist property and casualty reinsurance company, has launched an innovation unit called Greenlight Re Innovations.Headed by Greenlight Re’s Chief Operating...
Mar 7 2018 // The World Economic Forum has led the creation of an industry consortium focused on improving the cyber security of financial technology companies, as collaboration between fintechs and financial institutions grows.The...
Mar 7 2018 // Romanian firm emerges as leader in automating business tasksRomanian software firm UiPath has raised $153 million in new venture financing, marking both the company’s rapid ascent as a leader in automating routine...
Mar 7 2018 // Not so long ago, Hartford, Conn., was widely known as the insurance capital of the world. Today, interest has shifted to technology-led insurance firms, or InsurTechs, raising the question: Where is the InsurTech capital...
Mar 6 2018 // Digital agency Pie Insurance said it is ready to start selling its workers’ compensation policies in four states this month, with a goal of operating in as many as 20 states by the end of 2018.The startup that claims...
Mar 6 2018 // Major automakers on Monday joined forces with tech companies and a variety of interest groups to urge the U.S. Senate to take up, before the end of May, a stalled bill aimed at speeding the deployment and testing of...
Mar 6 2018 // Risk Innovations, a national wholesaler that specializes in personal lines insurance and workers’ compensation, has made two promotions in its Atlanta office. Kathryn Powell Smith Kathryn Powell Smith, who has led...
Mar 5 2018 // The small business market is big. The U.S. small commercial market represents about one-third of the total commercial lines market and generates between $99 billion and $103 billion in direct written premium, according to...
Mar 1 2018 // A startup modeling firm named Jupiter is reaching for the stars in its quest to better model for the impacts of climate change.The firm recently launched what its calling a “transformative cloud-based technology...
Feb 28 2018 // We are grateful for friend of the Academy, Christopher J. Boggs, CPCU, ARM, ALCM, LPCS, AAI, APA, CWCA, CRIS, AINS, Executive Director, Big “I” Virtual University who provided this blog series about autonomous...