All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 30 2023 // Insurtech Hippo Holdings said it has “initiated an organizational realignment” by laying off about 120 employees, or 20% of its workforce.The company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
Oct 25 2023 // Tech-enabled commercial insurance wholesale brokerage QuoteWell announced its public launch to serve independent retail agents.Founded in 2021, the insurtech said it “helps agents who are often overlooked and given...
Oct 23 2023 // AXA XL Risk Consulting announced the launch of AXA Immersive Solutions, an innovative training solution leveraging virtual reality (VR) and digital twin technologies.AXA Immersive Solutions gives AXA XL’s risk...
Oct 18 2023 // Nirvana Insurance announced a $57 million Series B funding round with Lightspeed Venture Partners investing again to lead the round, and additional participation from General Catalyst and Valor Equity Partners.The new...
Oct 17 2023 // Despite recent efforts to address the issue, medical-related websites continue to be mined for data including personal medical information, in an apparent violation of patients’ privacy rights, according to a new...
Oct 16 2023 // Howden, the London-based insurance group, has launched Howden Ventures, subject to Lloyd’s approval, with £500 million ($607.1 million) of delegated underwriting capacity, to create an investment and risk incubator...
Oct 16 2023 // The insurance industry is truly a nexus for innovation. Particularly through the use of technology, it is inspiring to dive into the many ways insurance professionals across the country and the world create real-time...
Oct 13 2023 // Xceedance, a global provider of strategic operations support, technology, and data services to insurance organizations, announced the launch of burst capacity catastrophe modeling resources to support reinsurers during...
Oct 6 2023 // A communications platform called “fuse” has been launched for the global commercial insurance and reinsurance industry.Fuse promises retail, wholesale and reinsurance brokers, insureds, insurers and reinsurers...
Oct 3 2023 // Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said Monday tech giants were competing for vast troves of content needed to train artificial intelligence, and complained Google was locking up content with expensive and exclusive...
Oct 2 2023 // Technology has revolutionized the architecture and engineering (A&E) design space over the past 40 to 50 years, allowing for improved efficiency and faster architectural design and output.However, these technological...
Sep 28 2023 // A U.S. government shutdown, perhaps as soon as Saturday night, will force the National Flood Insurance Program to suspend issuing of new policies, potentially causing a major disruption for home buyers.The National Home...
Sep 27 2023 // Ariel Re, the Bermuda-based re/insurer, has relaunched its Clean Energy division as “Ariel Green,” in recognition of the increasingly crucial role of technology performance insurance in accelerating innovation...
Sep 27 2023 // Loadsure, the London-based insurtech and managing general agent, has partnered with WeatherOptics, a leading weather intelligence platform, with the aim of bringing weather intelligence into its risk calculations.Loadsure...
Sep 25 2023 // This year has been a challenging one for Phil Schneider, who hasn’t seen wildfire behavior like this in his 47-year firefighting career.Blazes raged through more than 2,000 acres of wildland in recent months in his...
Sep 21 2023 // The maritime industry is exploring whether nuclear fuel can be used to power commercial ships as advancements in technology open up such options, industry officials said.Nevertheless, any possible nuclear fuel solutions...
Sep 21 2023 // Conduit Re, the Bermuda-based global reinsurer, is achieving end-to-end underwriting with pricing decision intelligence (PDI) company hyperexponential.Using the PDI platform, hx Renew, Conduit Re is now able to rapidly...
Sep 18 2023 // Origami Risk announced it has acquired Chicago, Illinois-based Dais Technology, a provider of no-code insurance technology. The acquisition increases Dais’ market reach and client support capabilities and expands...
Sep 15 2023 // Embroker Appoints Linetsky as New Chief Technology OfficerEmbroker, headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., appointed Gene Linetsky its new chief technology officer (CTO). Linetsky has more than 30 years of experience....
Sep 8 2023 // A profitability problem that would have otherwise taken insurtech Hippo half a year to correct is on the mend after just 30 days, the chief executive officer said at an investor conference Thursday.Speaking at the Keefe,...