Nippon Life Insurance said Friday it will purchase an 85.1% stake in MassMutual Life, the Japanese unit of US insurer MassMutual, for ~¥104.2B. The acquisition is aimed at strengthening Nippon’s insurance...

In just nine months since the official launch , Friday has insured over 15,000 cars.   The Berlin-based insurer launched on March, 2017 to offer a paperless and monthly car insurance. In August, it followed with...

TicketGuardian, the insurtech startup shaking up the ‘no refunds’ standard of live events ticketing, and EzTix, the global leader in Food & Wine ticketed sales, announced their partnership today to...

The right insurance protection is key, whether you’re a ridesharing passenger catching a ride or a driver using your car to offer rides. Allstate is partnering with Uber to protect...

Uber, the ridesharing company, is launching a new service called Uber Health (API included) to allow healthcare organizations to provide transportation for patients.     Features include: Flexible ride scheduling for...

Blueprint Income launched today, announcing a $2.75 million seed investment led by Green Visor Capital and NextView Ventures, with participation from Core Innovation Capital, Kairos, and angel investor Jean Chatzky, among others.  ...

  The car leasing and rental market is forecasted to be worth $124B in 2022; NY-based Honcker and IL-based Carlease.com are hoping to get a piece of the action. The two...

iPipeline, a provider of cloud-based software solutions for the life insurance and financial services industry, and MassMutual announced a partnership agreement to deliver LifeScore360 – an algorithmic risk scoring solution –...

Meet Jones :     The NY-based startup, which has raised an undisclosed seed round from 500 Startups and MetaProp, offers independent contractors pay-as-you-go liability insurance. Shoppers can get a...

AI is accurately spotting risks in everyday business contracts .   In a new study, LawGeex, an AI contract review platform, has achieved a 94% accuracy rate at surfacing risks...

Nomad Health, the first online marketplace for healthcare jobs, has raised $12M in a Series B round. It will use the proceeds to fortify the technology that drives the marketplace,...

Mastercard today announced a global partnership with Dream Payments aimed at getting insurance customers paid quickly, simply and securely. Both companies share a vision where insurance policyholders will receive fast payments into any...

Boston-based InsurTech company, Corvus, announces a $4 million seed round investment led by Bain Capital Ventures to propel InsurTech innovation into the commercial insurance market. Corvus partners with major insurers...

Mahindra & Mahindra, the $19B federation of companies and India’s largest auto manufacturer is joining forces with XL Catlin to start a general insurance company. “We have signed an agreement with...