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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiXUWMwqrxU And here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVV5uI3Djww 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.

An abrupt management reshuffling at Sompo Canopius , which announced the sudden departure of Group CEO Stuart Davies, who has been heading the global reinsurer since May 2015. Michael Watson, founder and currently Non-Executive Chairman of...

Trov, which currently offers on-demand micro-duration product insurance for electronics in Australia, is now available in UK via its partnership with AXA. The launch follows the recent launch of Back...

Trov, the company reinventing insurance for the mobile generation, today launches its world leading on-demand insurance platform in the UK, in partnership with AXA Insurance. For the first time, people...

A Boston-based machine learning startup called Indico, which launched back in 2013, announced it has raised $1.2 million in funding  to develop its software and enter deeper into the insurance and...