Emerging P2P insurer Lemonade revealed its latest investor: XL Innovate (think: Embroker, Slice). However, it didn’t reveal how much funding it has raised the second time around because secrecy is in its nature. IE is...

Apple has reportedly acquired health data startup Gliimpse, which has been organizing personal healthcare data since 2013. The news comes ~two weeks after it was announced that Apple filed a patent...

An 8-month-old Indian data analytics company that is building crop risk indexes using remote sensing, machine learning, and cloud computing. Bottom Line: an attempt to put an end to an insurance...

John Legend (the singer) is AmFam’s newest brand ambassador. His better half is still available?

Swedish health startup KRY that connects patients with healthcare professionals for video consultations, has raised €6.1 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures (London and SF) and Creandum (Stockholm).

Jay Fishman, the chairman and former chief executive officer of Travelers, who steered the insurer through the financial crisis and into the Dow Jones Industrial Average has died following a...

Weather detecting company Understory has been named a winner of the 2016 Wisconsin Innovation Awards from among 186 businesses. Understory sensors allow insurers to know where, when, and how damage occurred to a property. Bottom...

Denver-based NextHealth announced it has raised $8.5 million in Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners for its predictive analytics and consumer engagement platform that promises to provide customers with the tools they...

CA-based commercial lines wholesale insurer Safebuilt Insurance Services, better yet SIS, launched an online rating and policy management platform called SIS Online 2.0.

Barely two weeks after partnering with carpooling app Splt to provide on demand non-emergency medical rides in Detroit, Lyft is now partnering with Ride2MD in Miami. Same idea.

Farmers becomes the first insurer to offer ridesharing coverage in Montana. The coverage is purchased as an endorsement to Farmers personal auto insurance policy and provides coverage for period 1, aka from when...

MS&AD, Allianz and Axa were among the first to bid for the right to distribute insurance products through banking and financial services company Standard Chartered (SC) in Asia for the next 15 years. SC is...

Activist Carl Icahn supports AIG’s agreement to sell its mortgage insurer United Guaranty to Arch Capital for $3.4 billion possibly because he has bigger fish (cough, shark, cough) to fry.

All-things agency marketing provider ITC announced its plans to support the future of the insurance industry via a one $1,000 scholarship to a current college student who sees a future in insurance. Keyword: one. Fine...