All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 10 2022 // Insurance broker and real estate services firm Acrisure announced that it has acquired business technology firm Homefield IT, which will become part as part of Acrisure Cyber Services (ACS).Based in New York City,...
Nov 10 2022 // Risk Solved and expert.ai Offer for Language-to-Data Solution for InsurersRisk Solved Ltd, a global risk management platform provider, and expert.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist in natural language...
Nov 7 2022 // Pakistani online insurance startup Waada acquired a local rival to create the South Asian nation’s largest player in the field, seeking to benefit from growth in the burgeoning market.The Karachi-based company took...
Nov 3 2022 // Canopius Group, the London-based global specialty re/insurer, announced the launch of the “Canopius Tech & Data Hub” in Manchester, UK.The Hub, which will begin operating early next year, will ensure that...
Oct 24 2022 // Extreme rainfall events, and the dangerous floods that follow them, are happening more often in Tennessee. This risk grows as the climate warms.To respond to this risk, climate scientists, engineers and emergency mangers...
Oct 19 2022 // Cyberattacks on the digital supply chain have become increasingly common, as hackers seek out weak links among makers of computer code and equipment to breach organizations that depend on the technologies.In 2020, for...
Oct 17 2022 // With rising inflation and the prospect of a recession on the horizon, the present macroeconomic environment is forcing property/casualty underwriters to adapt to new technologies and sources of data. All the while,...
Oct 17 2022 // Insurtechs are continuing to disrupt the insurance industry, while pushing traditional insurers to focus on modernization initiatives and how they can best leverage the capabilities of data and analytics. While global...
Oct 13 2022 // Alphabet unit Google could face antitrust charges next year over its digital advertising business, with EU regulators frustrated over the slow pace of settlement talks with the company, people familiar with the matter said...
Oct 12 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at RSA Luxembourg; Northcourt (the MGA and underwriter of nuclear risks), and Aon.A summary of these new hires follows here. O’Leary Named CEO of RSA...
Oct 6 2022 // Transparency is the key to managing supply chain risk. But some businesses only focus on selective financial information from their suppliers, which can leave them exposed. Beyond creditworthiness, there are many...
Oct 4 2022 // Mosaic adds excess technology E&O coverage to cyber product offeringMosaic Insurance’s cyber division has launched excess capacity and coverage for a new product aimed at protecting technology sector companies...
Oct 3 2022 // Lemonade, the New York City-based insurtech that is powered by artificial intelligence, has launched in the United Kingdom, following previous international moves in France, Germany, and the Netherlands.Founded in 2015,...
Sep 30 2022 // Allianz X, the digital investments arm of Allianz Group, will acquire 100% of the shares in Berlin-based simplesurance. Allianz X has been a strategic investor in the Berlin-based insurtech company since 2016 and most...
Sep 21 2022 // Pie Insurance, an insurtech specializing in workers compensation insurance for small businesses, said it raised a $315 million Series D round of funding – the largest round of financing for any U.S. based P&C...
Sep 19 2022 // InsureScan, a company that says its software can help agents quote and bind auto coverage in a few minutes, has expanded to Alabama. CEO Mark Chappell, who is based in Alabama, said that while some insurance companies are...
Sep 19 2022 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a $6.5 million program to support insurance innovation for climate-technologies, a new program focused on the research and development of new insurance policies and products that...
Sep 16 2022 // Harish Pullanoor spent his weekends in the late 1980s tramping around the marshes and ponds of Yemalur, an area then on the eastern edge of the Indian metropolis of Bengaluru, where his cousins would join him catching...
Sep 15 2022 // Xceedance, a global provider of technology and data services to insurance organizations, has open a new global headquarters in central Massachusetts in the city of Worcester. The company said the new Massachusetts office...
Sep 9 2022 // CompScience has found a way to reduce workers compensation risk and cost using artificial intelligence.Not just by the numbers, but by analyzing authentic, onsite video taken at clients’ facilities. The company...