All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 16 2021 // New York-based safety technology firm Kinetic has formed an underwriting partnership with Nationwide’s E&S/Specialty division. Acting as program manager, Kinetic Insurance is offering workers’ compensation...
Nov 15 2021 // ID Federation Offers Multi-Factor Authentication Resource for AgenciesInsurance carriers and their agency partners face a “gathering storm” of confusing requirements and changes in the area of multi-factor...
Nov 15 2021 // Until now, it has been practically verboten for insurers in many states to offer policyholders a free fitness tracker, such as a FitBit, or even wearable sniffers for factory workers to help detect toxic gases.The...
Nov 15 2021 // Conflicts over water are as old as history itself, but the massive Google data centers on the edge of this Oregon town on the Columbia River represent an emerging 21st century concern.Now a critical part of modern...
Nov 12 2021 // Insurtechs continue to attract significant investor cash, pulling in a near-record $5.3 billion for the 2021 third quarter, representing a total of 472 deals.U.S. companies nailed down most of the cash, according to a...
Nov 10 2021 // Arbol Inc., a New York City-based insurtech platform for parametric protection products, announced the launch of Arbol Underwriters Ltd. (AUL), a registered insurance agent based in Bermuda, which is focused on providing...
Nov 9 2021 // Digital insurer Lemonade plans to acquire California-based pay-per-mile auto insurance startup Metromile in an all-stock transaction as it continues to expand, Carrier Management reported.With the agreement, the New...
Nov 9 2021 // Sean Bourgeois, the chief executive officer of Tremor, often hears people say that his company’s reinsurance price optimization technology works best in a soft market, when there’s a lot of competition and...
Nov 8 2021 // Chaucer, the London-based specialty re/insurance group, and parametric insurtech startup, Yokahu, are launching a new microinsurance product, which will provide cover for hurricane events in the Caribbean.This new...
Nov 8 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.The insurance industry has been around for thousands of years. But that’s no reason your agency should still be operating like it’s 1916! One of the greatest...
Nov 4 2021 // Insurtech startup owl.co Labs Inc. raised $30 million in new venture capital. Many plans are in play to spend the cash infusion, including hiring, and accelerated growth plans for the company’s machine...
Nov 3 2021 // Home, renters and pet insurer Lemonade is deploying its artificial intelligence, behavioral economics and social good mantra with its newest product, Lemonade Car.Lemonade Car is designed to offer better auto insurance...
Nov 3 2021 // Orion 180, a homeowners’ insurtech company, has expanded into Georgia and will soon move into South Carolina, the company said this week. Orion, based in Melbourne, Florida, uses technology to allow homeowners to...
Nov 2 2021 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments in at insurer Chaucer (in the UK), the broker NFP (in Quebec) and the insurtech BOXX (in Switzerland).A summary of these new hires follows here Chaucer...
Nov 2 2021 // Russian tech giant Yandex plans to reward responsible drivers on its car-sharing platform with cheaper insurance this year, it told Reuters, using machine learning in a pilot program similar to one already adopted by...
Nov 2 2021 // Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in cases where the content they push to users causes harm? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry?Those ideas...
Nov 1 2021 // Ripe Thinking Ltd., a UK-based digital underwriting and insurance distribution platform, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement for Aquiline Capital Partners LLC to acquire a majority stake...
Oct 29 2021 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based insurtech company Coterie Insurance, which specializes in commercial insurance, has completed a $50 million series Series B financing round, totaling $75 million raised since its founding in...
Oct 27 2021 // Conflicts over water are as old as history itself, but the massive Google data centers on the edge of this Oregon town on the Columbia River represent an emerging 21st century concern.Now a critical part of modern...
Oct 27 2021 // While global investment in insurtechs continues to rise, not all insurtechs are benefitting. Rather, much of the funding is focused on a relatively few startups.For example, in the second quarter, more than two-thirds of...