All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 16 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges were appointed in violation of the Constitution, agreeing to hear a case that could upend administrative hearing...
Jan 11 2018 // California-based insurtech company Hippo has formed a strategic partnership with Spinnaker Insurance Co. to expand its product offerings into new states.Hippo offers homeowners insurance through an online platform, as well...
Jan 9 2018 // Surplus lines in California had a great year with more premium and more items, such as policies and endorsements sold.However, surplus lines brokers had to work harder for all that premium. That’s according to Ben...
Jan 9 2018 // eReinsure.com, Inc., a global specialty insurance distributor and part of AmWINS Group, will offer a blockchain service linked to its reinsurance platform to help companies share information.According to Igor...
Jan 9 2018 // Carmakers and tech companies have fallen over one another in recent weeks to show the strides they’ve made with self-driving cars. At CES — usually a stage for bragging about futuristic bona fides — top...
Jan 8 2018 // Insurance may lack the buzz and cachet enjoyed by tech companies, yet the stock of one Chinese company in the industry has kept pace handsomely with some of the highest-flying champions of the digital revolution.Ping An...
Jan 8 2018 // The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us, the chief content officer of Netflix said four years ago.In the insurance world, InsureTech Connect Conference founder Caribou Honig thinks traditional insurers and...
Jan 8 2018 // Insurtech is often framed as a force of disruption in the insurance industry. But technology doesn’t disrupt the industry – it enhances the way carriers and customers interact. In 2018, I predict we will...
Jan 8 2018 // Hartford InsurTech Hub, an initiative established in 2017 by Hartford, Conn.-based insurance companies, the city of Hartford and CTNext, has selected the 2018 group of 11 startups that will participate in its inaugural...
Jan 4 2018 // Travelers Europe announced it has enhanced its offering for technology businesses in the United Kingdom and Ireland with a packaged product to provide improved protection against the unique cyber risks facing IT,...
Jan 2 2018 // Central Ohio residents with emergencies will soon have the option to text 911 in addition to placing a call.Local governments in Delaware and Franklin counties plan to test technology in the first three months of 2018...
Jan 2 2018 // “The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us,” the chief content officer of Netflix said four years ago.In the insurance world, InsureTech Connect Conference founder Caribou Honig thinks traditional...
Dec 29 2017 // Blockchain, cyber, mergers and acquisitions and London’s devastating Grenfell Tower fire are just some of the topics that dominate the most popular articles in Insurance Journal’s International section during...
Dec 29 2017 // It wouldn’t feel right to close out the year without looking back at the most popular stories on Insurance Journal during the past 12 months. Here are the national stories that attracted the most readers in 2017,...
Dec 28 2017 // A deadly attack this month in Melbourne, Australia, in which a man plowed an SUV into a crowd of Christmas shoppers, comes from the same playbook used by terrorists in recent years around the globe. Many new vehicles...
Dec 27 2017 // Self-driving cars may be the future, but relinquishing control of the wheel certainly takes some getting used to. It’s one thing to go (slowly) with the flow on well-marked city streets, for which many self-driving...
Dec 22 2017 // A European Union decision to treat Uber Technologies Inc. like a taxi company spotlights a trans-Atlantic divide over how governments cope with disruptive technologies and could embolden U.S. cities to restrict the...
Dec 22 2017 // As investigators sift through the wreckage of this week’s Amtrak train crash in Washington state, critics have begun questioning President Donald Trump’s recent efforts to roll back or delay finalizing U.S....
Dec 21 2017 // Red and green make yellow.And depending on how one feels about climate change, it could be considered a cautionary tale for the U.S. that China plans to create the world’s largest carbon market, possibly making it...
Dec 21 2017 // The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle, Wash. came at a deadly cost: none of the critical speed-control technology that could have prevented a derailment was active before the train set off...