All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 17 2019 // A bipartisan group of lawmakers is stepping up efforts to have U.S. trade officials eliminate a legal liability shield that tech companies are pushing to keep in new agreements, including a deal to replace the North...
Oct 10 2019 // The Travelers Companies has joined the Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE), organizations working to advance...
Oct 10 2019 // Drivers in the U.S. may one day no longer have to crane their necks to check their blind spots if regulators agree to let high-tech cameras and screens replace the humble side-view mirror.The National Highway Traffic...
Oct 10 2019 // Two Rugby World Cup games pitting England against France and New Zealand against Italy have been called off as the powerful Typhoon Hagibis approaches Japan this weekend, organizers confirmed.The decision means both...
Oct 9 2019 // Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has appointed eight individuals to Florida Cybersecurity Task Force, according to a statement from the governor’s office.The Florida Cybersecurity Task Force is tasked with reviewing and...
Oct 9 2019 // As the cyber insurance market continues to grow, it’s only natural to discuss its place in the battle against cyber-attacks, including ransomware, which has been a prevalent topic in recent months.Over the last...
Oct 8 2019 // As insurers embrace insurtech in multiple ways, The Hanover Insurance Group’s Richard Lavey offers some advice: Not everything works as initially envisioned, and that’s OK.“‘If you build it, they...
Oct 8 2019 // FRISS, the insurtech provider of AI-powered anti-fraud solutions for the P&C insurance industry, has extended its partnership with Munich Re to now support insurers in their fight against fraud.Following their...
Oct 7 2019 // Somewhere in central Michigan, a pickup truck drives into a sleepy suburban neighborhood. An autonomous drone takes flight off the truck’s flatbed and, nearly silently, heads a half-mile east, slowing above a...
Oct 7 2019 // Insurtech Next Insurance has pulled in a $250 million financing round from a single investor: Munich Re.Palo Alto-based Next said it plans to use the Series C cash infusion to scale up its small business insurance products...
Oct 7 2019 // People who buy gasoline generally don’t care for the product or enjoy the experience of pumping gas: They just want to drive.Chris Colborn, chief experience officer for the Lippincott creative consulting firm, opened...
Oct 4 2019 // Despite progress, carriers are still falling short in how they approach cyber insurance and also how they cover events when they happen.How can this be? The unique makeup of cyber risks continues to hold them back,...
Oct 3 2019 // The Iowa-based Global Insurance Accelerator will nearly double its seed funding for insurtechs accepted into the program in 2020.Nicole Gunderson, managing director for the GIA, said the increase is a way for the GIA,...
Oct 3 2019 // It’s no secret: Innovators and regulators often clash. But both are needed to help enable a dynamic, consumer-friendly property/casualty industry in the future, insurance and insurtech experts said...
Oct 1 2019 // Nationwide plans on striking hard against digital insurer upstart competitors with the debut of Spire, a digital auto insurance platform with an eye on millennial customers.Spire, which will be rolled out in the 2019...
Sep 26 2019 // LAS VEGAS — People who buy gasoline generally don’t care for the product or enjoy the experience of pumping gas: They just want to drive.Chris Colborn, chief experience officer for the Lippincott creative...
Sep 24 2019 // It’s time to rethink the limits of parametric insurance.The concept behind parametric insurance is not new. Insurance payouts automatically triggered by an event exceeding an index level have existed for decades....
Sep 23 2019 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Roy Caswell executive vice president and director of information technology. Caswell started in the insurance industry in 1992 working at American...
Sep 23 2019 // Hundreds of domestic flights in Japan were canceled because of Typhoon Tapah, and the storm caused similar disruptions in South Korea as it moved to make landfall later Sunday.Airlines operating in Japan called off more...
Sep 23 2019 // Bold Penguin, a Columbus Ohio commercial insurance technology provider, said it has completed a $32 million Series B funding round, bringing the total capital it has raised to more than $50 million since it started in...