All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 2 2020 // The Indonesian digital insurance agency PasarPolis said it raised $54 million in a Series B funding round, in what it said is the largest Series B funding for an insurtech firm in the region.The company said the investors...
Sep 2 2020 // NEW DELHI/MUMBAI — Amazon.com Inc. has added insurance and even gold to its menu of financial services in India, to expand its customer base and attract more subscribers to its Prime loyalty program in a battleground...
Sep 1 2020 // While few, if any, organizations saw the coronavirus pandemic and all of its death and disruption coming, some were better positioned to deal with it than others.According to risk expert Jim Wetekamp, some organizations...
Aug 28 2020 // The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously dismissed appeals by China’s Huawei and ZTE in patent disputes over mobile data technology with Unwired Planet International and Conversant...
Aug 25 2020 // Even though insurers have invested heavily in fraud-fighting technology, the percentage of referrals from automated systems accepted by special investigation units has declined to 15 percent from 22 percent in the past two...
Aug 25 2020 // Foresight offers an innovative workers’ compensation program for safety-critical verticalsSan Francisco, CA, August 18, 2020 – Foresight recently announced its technology-first workers’ compensation...
Aug 24 2020 // Independent agencies, like every other business, are living in a data-driven world. The value of data — including how and when it’s used and for what purpose — continues to evolve. As the value of data to...
Aug 24 2020 // 1. Offset Negativity. What can you show your clients that you are doing to help them during the pandemic? Everyone is tired of hearing how all their business income (BI) claims are denied. What are you doing to offset all...
Aug 24 2020 // An insurtech managing general agency focused on commercial auto insurance has raised $16 million in new Series A financing, a climate-risk related platform has $4.2 million in new seed financing, and a home insurance...
Aug 16 2020 // Shares of Duck Creek Technologies Inc. soared on their Nasdaq debut on Friday, after the software company serving the property and casualty insurance market raised $405 million in its upsized initial public offering...
Aug 14 2020 // An insurtech managing general agency focused on commercial auto insurance has raised $16 million in new Series A financing, a climate-risk related platform has $4.2 million in new seed financing, and a home insurance...
Aug 14 2020 // A car owner should be able to pay lower insurance premiums for driving a car with safety features, such as automated braking that stops the car when the driver is distracted or lane keep assist systems that help prevent a...
Aug 14 2020 // It’s not just insurtech startups that have an edge on innovation. Some established reinsurers have developed their own analytics and technology divisions that offer a variety of insurtech-type solutions for...
Aug 11 2020 // The Lloyd’s re/insurance market announced the latest cohort of insurtech disruptors that will join its Lloyd’s Lab innovation accelerator program with a focus on COVID-19 products and solutions.The insurtechs...