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Insurance Tech: Zywave Releases Suite of Specialized AI Agents

Dec 17 2025 // Insurance technology provider Zywave unveiled an agentic AI strategy, and what it calls the industry’s first suite of insurance-specialized AI agents.The agents will help insurance companies transform how they work...

Bjak Founder Weighs IPO as Malaysia Insurtech Seeks Expansion Into Europe

Dec 16 2025 // Bjak Sdn, Malaysia’s largest online insurance aggregator, is mulling an initial public offering within the next two years as it seeks to enter Europe.Bjak is eyeing new markets in Spain and Germany in 2026 following...

Drowning in Busywork? Tech to Help Agencies Reclaim Time and Boost Efficiency

Dec 15 2025 // With the winter holidays quickly approaching, independent agencies are looking for ways to reclaim precious time—to unwind and recharge. Between client requests, policy servicing, sales demands, carrier logins, and...

Fifth La Niña in Six Years to Disrupt Crops and Supply Chains

Dec 15 2025 // Deadly flooding in Asia and early snowstorms across the US are signaling the return of a weather-roiling La Niña, a cooling of Pacific waters that can disrupt economies and trigger disasters worldwide.In recent La Niña...

UConn, Georgia Tech Students Win ACORD Challenge Using AI Tools in Pet Insurance

Dec 11 2025 // The insurance industry data standards organization ACORD announced today that University of Connecticut graduate student Manasa Ramaka has won the ACORD Student Challenge 2025, a national competition that asks university...

Asahi Sales Drop Worsens as Cyber Hack Disruption Lingers

Dec 10 2025 // Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.’s November beer and other alcohol sales in Japan fell more than the previous month, underscoring the challenges the company faces in recovering from a cyberattack that crippled production...

Chubb, The Hartford, Liberty and Travelers Team Up on Surety Tech Launch

Dec 9 2025 // Four surety companies—Chubb, The Hartford, Liberty Mutual and Travelers—announced the launch of a technology company that will feature a shared digital infrastructure to advance the surety industry.According to a brief...

Health Department Unveils Strategy to Expand its Adoption of AI Tech

Dec 8 2025 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday outlined a strategy to expand its use of artificial intelligence, building on the Trump administration’s enthusiastic embrace of the rapidly advancing...

Leveling Up Fleet Safety with Inspection Technology

Dec 8 2025 // Pre- and post-trip inspections are a daily requirement for carriers. Many fleets still rely on paper Driver Vehicle Inspection Reports, or DVIR, that drivers must fill out by hand, but this approach can lead to illegible...

People Moves: Westfield Specialty International Taps Zurich’s Watson to Lead New Cyber Offering; Liberty Names Delvos From Corvus as Head of Cyber and Tech E&O, Europe

Dec 4 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Westfield Specialty International and Liberty Specialty Markets.A summary of these new hires follows here. Westfield Specialty Int’l Taps...

Tech Industry Drive to Block State AI Laws Hits Wall in Congress

Dec 3 2025 // A powerful coalition of tech companies backed by the White House’s artificial intelligence chief appears to have failed to persuade lawmakers to use a must-pass defense bill to block state governments from regulating...

Thailand’s Record Floods Paralyze Key Hubs for Tech and Car Parts

Dec 2 2025 // Thailand said floods that have devastated much of the country’s south have “paralyzed” the flow of high tech components and car parts to neighboring Malaysia, potentially benefiting rival exporters in...

Amazon, Google Named by EU Among ‘Critical’ Tech Providers for Finance Industry

Nov 19 2025 // European Union regulators on Tuesday designated 19 technology companies, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft, as critical third-party computing providers for the bloc’s finance industry.Under...

Has Insurtech Funding Found a Floor?

Nov 19 2025 // Two separate reports published this month show that while quarterly insurtech deal counts have plummeted from heights attained in 2021 and 2022, dollar levels invested in insurtechs have stabilized since late 2022.While...

How Big Tech Is Faring Against US Antitrust Lawsuits?

Nov 19 2025 // A federal judge ruling that Meta Platforms does not hold an illegal social media monopoly handed Big Tech its first decisive win against the antitrust crackdown started in President Donald Trump’s first term.Here are...

Insurtech Hippo Reverses Q3 Loss During ‘Breakout Quarter’

Nov 17 2025 // Insurtech Hippo posted third-quarter 2025 net income of $98 million, compared with a net loss of $9 million a year ago during the same period.San Jose, California-based Hippo’s Q3 combined ratio improved to...

GoDaddy Hit With $170M Patent Verdict Over Web-Design Tech

Nov 10 2025 // Internet domain registrar GoDaddy GDDY.N owes a patent owner $170 million for violating its rights in website-building technology, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Friday.The jury agreed with...

Tech University Students Think Tiny Drones Inspired by Bats Could Save Lives

Nov 6 2025 // Don’t be fooled by the fog machine, spooky lights and fake bats: the robotics lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute lab isn’t hosting a late Halloween party.Instead, it’s a testing ground for tiny drones...

Florida-Based HCI’s Insurtech Raises $168M in Initial Public Offering

Nov 5 2025 // Insurance technology firm Exzeo Group, part of Tampa-based HCI Group, raised $168 million in its U.S. initial public offering on Tuesday, pricing its shares within its marketed range and becoming the latest insurance...

Insurtech Hippo Reverses Q3 Loss During ‘Breakout Quarter’

Nov 5 2025 // Insurtech Hippo posted third quarter 2025 net income of $98 million compared with a net loss of $9 million a year ago during the same period.San Jose, California-based Hippo’s Q3 combined ratio improved to 100—a...