All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 5 2020 // From standup comedy and acting gigs to selling insurance – not the typical career path for the everyday independent agency owner but that is how Jeff Arnold, founder of RightSure Insurance Group, this year’s...
Oct 2 2020 // London-based insurtech Zego has partnered with two of the UK’s biggest networks of independent brokers that sit within Bravo Group.Zego will benefit from access to a community of over 700 brokers, more than 60% of...
Oct 2 2020 // A biotechnology startup called Koniku is trying to develop robots that could sniff out Covid-19 infections faster than conventional testing.The technology fuses neurons with a silicon chip to create a “smell...
Oct 1 2020 // Sirius International Insurance Group Ltd. announced that it has enhanced its Global Business Technology (GBT) team through the restructuring of its global management structure.This expansion will enable the firm to advance...
Sep 30 2020 // CaseGlide, LLC, a provider of claims litigation management software for claims organizations, has added Russ Smith as chief technology officer (CTO).A software industry veteran of more than two decades, Smith comes to St....
Sep 30 2020 // Lloyd’s has launched a new “first-of-its-kind” business interruption policy for small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), specifically designed to protect them against IT disruption or...
Sep 30 2020 // Hg, the European private equity investor focused on software and service businesses, announced it will make a significant long-term equity investment in Hyperion Insurance Group Ltd., the insurance intermediary.The...
Sep 29 2020 // Managing general agents for reinsurance are rare. Reinsurance MGAs that write cyber are even rarer, which is the world that Envelop Risk inhabits.“We think we’re the only insurtech firm involved in cyber...
Sep 28 2020 // Technology firms’ compliance with European restrictions on transatlantic data transfers is shockingly poor, Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems said on Monday, publishing a survey of companies including Facebook...
Sep 25 2020 // A Texas-based provider of software services to local governments and schools across the United States, Tyler Technologies, told customers on Sept. 23 that an unknown intruder broke into its phone and information technology...
Sep 24 2020 // Next Insurance secured another $250 million in financing designed to fuel continued national expansion of its digital small business insurance offerings.CapitalG, Alphabet/Google’s independent growth fund, led the...
Sep 24 2020 // Silicon Valley’s innovation engine has been slow to produce useful new tools to help firefighters like Dave Winnacker extinguish the deadly blazes that each year fill California’s skies with smoke.Winnacker, a...
Sep 23 2020 // Property/casualty insurer Topa Insurance Co. and Hippo Enterprises, a technology-driven managing general agency offering homeowners insurance, announced their mutual decision to end their three-year partnership.The move...
Sep 21 2020 // Smithfield Foods Inc. thought it was doing great. In the first quarter of this year, the pork giant’s earnings were up 190% over the same period in 2019. Then the pandemic hit, and the close quarters of meatpacking...
Sep 20 2020 // Next Insurance is in talks to raise new capital in a round that values the insurance technology startup at about $2.25 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG is in talks to...
Sep 18 2020 // Four days before it was scheduled to go live, organizers of the popular annual insurance and technology conference, InsureTech Connect, announced they are postponing the now virtual 2020 conference by one month,ITC will...
Sep 15 2020 // Foresight is now appointing a group of founding broker partners focusing on hazardous verticals in the middle marketSan Francisco, CA, September 15, 2020 – Foresight, a commercial insurtech MGU with carriers rated A-...
Sep 14 2020 // COVID-19 has changed many things in the insurance industry. Seemingly overnight everyone is working from home and the companies with the best digital customer experiences have the advantage.Yet, commercial lines insurance...
Sep 10 2020 // China has launched an initiative to address global data security issues, a countermove to the U.S. “clean network” program that is aimed at discouraging other countries from using Chinese technology.Foreign...
Sep 7 2020 // An investigation into the cause of an explosion at an Arizona energy storage facility that injured four firefighters confirms what engineers had feared: Packing lithium-ion batteries tightly together can spark a chain...