Metlife’s Charlotte-based life-insurance business, which it is preparing to divest, will be called Brighthouse Financial.

Chicago-based insurance agency Insureon formed a new MGA unit called Insureon Underwriting Managers that will operate under its existing wholesale brokerage Insurance Noodle and will look to provide a market for hard-to-place-slash-unique...

Covered California has tentatively selected 11 health insurance companies to be available for enrollment starting Nov. 1, 2016, for coverage that begins on Jan. 1, 2017. One of which is...

A startup called Civic, which uses blockchain technology to protect Americans’ personal identity, has launched yesterday with the goal of preventing identity fraud before it can occur and offering its members $1-million...

Chicago-based ReviewTrackers has announced a $4 million in a funding round led by AmFam Ventures to boost development of its customer feedback platform, bringing its total funding to date to $6.1 million. The service...

Securian Financial Group has invested $1 million in healthtech startup Gravie and will begin selling life insurance through its online marketplace. Recall: Gravie, which previously raised $25.6 million in funding, showed...

ABSA, the African bank-slash-insurance group known for its retail branch that includes a foosball table and arcade machines, has launched a “full blown banking service inside Facebook messenger”. Think: customers are able to...

Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary National Indemnity Company, aka NICO, has agreed to acquire New York’s largest underwriter of medical professional liability insurance Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company, better yet MLMIC, cause life is short. Warren Buffett says...

Pillar Technologies announced it has secured $425,000 in seed funding from Insure.VC, to name one. The startup offers onsite sensors that can detect hostile conditions on construction sites and can send alerts to companies when conditions...

The Schaumburg-based insurtech startup launched in 2015 is rolling out its D3 Core commercial insurance platform. Think: an intake solution to process paperwork intelligently, a combo of internal and external data sets...

Meet Swiss Re Insurtech Accelerator’s first cohort: – GOQii – a one-on-one mobile coaching and fitness tracking that helps individuals make the shift to a healthier lifestyle – Touchkin –  a predictive care platform to enable...

‘Hero Insurance’ in English. A Hamburg-based digital broker-slash-mobile app that allows customers to purchase personal liability insurance in 3 minutes from NV Insurance. Founded by Florian Knörrich and Stefan Herbst. Viel Glück.

Israeli mobile threat sensor startup Skycure announced it has raised $16.5 million in series B bringing its total funding to date to $27.5 million because “enterprise mobile security is a burgeoning, multi-billion-dollar market”. New York...

“Given the fact that some countries have reported injuries of players who were catching Pokémon, we have developed a special product that will be free for players” – CEO of Sberbank...