“Experience overseas, including in New Zealand, shows consumers are more than capable of making purchasing decisions themselves” – Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Rod Sims on the virtues of...

Today, Metromile, the pioneer in pay-per-mile car insurance, announced a new automated claims service. With the enhanced service, customers have the option to file the entire claim directly from their...

Farmers is now offering ridesharing coverager to Uber, Lyft and the likes, in Oregon. Recall who’s offering what coverage, where, below. Here’s to the fun part. CX. Farmers added a question...

Farmers Insurance®, one of the largest multiline insurer groups in the nation and a leader in providing insurance coverage to drivers participating in the new sharing economy, announced the introduction...

Munich Re and online broker Next-Insurance announced they will collaborate to meet the needs of commercial photographers. Since Next is primarily (cough, only, cough) a web play, it doesn’t satisfy...

Next Insurance today announced its partnership with Munich Re to launch a product targeting commercial photographers, who will be able to buy, renew and maintain policies online. “This partnership between...

Hippo, a company that provides smart home insurance for the modern household, today announced it has closed a $14 million Series A round. The funding was led by Horizons Ventures,...

Dutch insurer Reaal launched a P2P insurance scheme. Think: POT. POT is a mobile app that allows participants to form groups to cover their stuff. Together, the group decides who shares what...

Cloud deployment via SurePackage and Amazon Web Services provides reliability, redundancy and scalability. San Jose, CA – December 14, 2016 – ISCS, developer of cloud-based, property and casualty (P&C) insurance...

Insurance company and claim professional customers of DropIn Inc. (DropIn) can now order on-demand, live-streaming drone video of properties to be assessed or damage to be estimated via the DropIn...

One, Inc., provider of a SaaS operating system for insurance companies, today announced that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV) with...

Sports tickets agency GameHedge offers a 50% refund on tickets if the home team loses by a certain amount of points. This threshold is 17 points for NFL games, 20 points for NBA...

Prudential announced it had suspended the distribution of its low-cost life insurance policy called MyTerm through Wells Fargo since some are concerned it has sold life insurance to folks without their permission. Sounds...

It started with a clever move by Lemonade CEO that entailed providing the Urban Dictionary definition of insurance… Disclaimer: The Website, Urban Dictionary, “is not suitable for all audiences. Its content is frequently presented...