All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 19 2019 // Hartford InsurTech Hub, powered by Startupbootcamp, has opened applications for the third year of its accelerator program.Insurance Technology (InsurTech) startups that have shown strong traction and are looking to connect...
Jul 18 2019 // Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd. announced that Venkat Krishnamoorthy has been appointed to the newly established position of chief technology officer.Reporting to Group CEO Pina Albo, Krishnamoorthy will be responsible for...
Jul 17 2019 // Specialist insurance provider CFC Underwriting has added a range of free risk management services to its insurance offering for technology companies.CFC, which is a London-based managing general agent, said it has teamed...
Jul 17 2019 // Two years ago Nasdaq Inc. and Citigroup Inc. announced a new blockchain system they said would make payments of private securities transactions more efficient. Nasdaq Chief Executive Adena Friedman called it “a...
Jul 15 2019 // A proposal to prevent big technology companies from functioning as financial institutions or issuing digital currencies has been circulated for discussion by the Democratic majority that leads the House Financial Services...
Jul 15 2019 // Insurers need to learn to share their data if they want to take full advantage of the mountain of information generated from connected devices, insurtech executives say. Along the way, somebody’s got to figure out...
Jul 11 2019 // International Business Machines Corp. on Wednesday threw its support behind enacting a new policy to limit liability protections enjoyed by internet platforms such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Twitter Inc. and Facebook...
Jul 10 2019 // Twenty-five years ago, the Lloyd’s of London marketplace was teetering on the brink of insolvency, reeling from billions of dollars of asbestos and pollution liabilities. Many of the best brains in the market worked...
Jul 9 2019 // Giant insurer Nationwide is partnering with an insurtech in an effort to speed up its product underwriting for commercial lines property/casualty agents.The technology Nationwide is deploying was developed by Ohio-based...
Jul 8 2019 // James Patterson and Ryan Mimmo have been appointed vice presidents of Cyber & Technology for Brit Global Specialty USA. They are based in San Francisco and New York, respectively, and are responsible for underwriting...
Jul 1 2019 // Munich Re had teamed up with a unit of the National Insurance Crime Bureau to offer insurance carriers an analytics tool that can quickly assess property damage after natural catastrophes and speed up claims payments.Roman...
Jul 1 2019 // Aon plc has partnered with anti-poverty organization Oxfam and insurtech startup Etherisc to launch a blockchain-based platform that provides agriculture insurance for smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka.Nearly 200 Sri Lankan...
Jul 1 2019 // With Arizona’s monsoon season quickly approaching, state transportation planners plan to begin installing a new dust-detection system on Interstate 10.The Arizona Department of Transportation recorded 85 dust-related...
Jul 1 2019 // The combined global losses from natural disasters in 2017 and 2018 were the highest ever for a two-year period. While no single major catastrophe caused massive destruction in 2018, nearly 400 smaller natural disasters...
Jul 1 2019 // There used to be a time when independent insurance agents were wary of what disruption insurtech might bring.They feared a future where all insurance transactions were done digitally — eliminating the need for the...
Jun 26 2019 // As Congress bears down on big tech companies, two senators want to force giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon to tell users what data they’re collecting from them and how much it’s worth.The legislation...
Jun 26 2019 // Insurers need to learn to share their data if they want to take full advantage of the mountain of information generated from connected devices, insurtech executives say. Along the way, somebody’s got to figure out...
Jun 26 2019 // The Kentucky Legislature has passed the first state law in the U.S. providing comprehensive framework for an insurance regulatory “sandbox” for insurance technology products. The new regulatory sandbox, which...
Jun 24 2019 // With Arizona’s monsoon season quickly approaching, state transportation planners plan to begin installing a new dust-detection system on Interstate 10.The Arizona Department of Transportation recorded 85 dust-related...
Jun 21 2019 // Argo Group International Holdings, the Bermuda-based specialty re/insurer, has adopted an insurtech platform that enables managing general agents, wholesalers and independent brokers to submit, quote and bind risks...