DropIn Inc. an innovative provider of live video and still image capture via drones and smartphones for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance and automotive industries, is pleased to announce...

  Takeaway: B2B data players stand out. As Nick Martin puts it, the hard work starts now.

Cogito Corporation announced it has raised $15 million in a Series B round bringing its total funding to date to $22.5 million. The Boston-based company offers an AI based technology for real-time...

Zensurance, the Canadian startup that launched this year to allow small business owners to answer just a few questions online and get multiple insurance quotes, picked up $1 million in a seed funding...

Allstate announced the acquisition of electronics protection provider SquareTrade for about $1.4 billion from a group of shareholders that include Bain Capital. The acquisition provides Allstate access to some 25 million protection plans...

EMPLOYERS Now Underwrites Policies for Small Businesses in 36 States, including Connecticut, Massachusetts, Nebraska and New York.   EMPLOYERS, America’s small business insurance specialist®, is now underwriting workers’ compensation insurance...

Bajaj Allianz entered an agreement with Bangalore-based Canara Bank to distribute its personal and commercial lines insurance products through the bank’s network of 5,920 branches across the country. Bottom Line: makes cents. Recall:...

“The agency era in a lot of those markets is now over; you have extraordinarily high commissions and an aging agency force” – Aviva’s CEO Mark Wilson on the state of...

Kenya becomes the fifteenth country in Africa where global insurance company Allianz has set up an office . The official launch took place at a cocktail event held at the...

Watch here. And here. Bottom Line: Flo-less because “Some stories are better told in a different way” .

Ostraa, the first mobile native, mass market, inclusive insurance company in the country announced the appointment of Amanda Turcotte as Chief Product Officer (CPO) today .   Ostraa harnesses the...

Along Came Polly, the 2004 comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston and the great Philip Seymour Hoffman features one of the funniest insurance scenes. Spoiler Alert: (really?! You haven’t seen the movie?!)...

China is getting ready to welcome a new online life insurer with an estimated worth of $218 million called Hetai Life Insurance. Chinese internet services giant Tencent is a backer along with...

Meet Riopo. A German insurance startup-slash-acronym that stands for Research Insurance Online Purchase Offline. As the name suggests, the startup looks to be an O2O (online-to-offline) consumer-friendly insurance portal. Not there yet.