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...

Trump’s favorite health insurer, aka Oscar, revealed its bottom line for the first half of the year. Bottom bottom:$822 average loss per head. Recall why ‘Trump’s favorite’ below.

Digital broker-slash-MGA for renters insurance (for now) Quilt launched in beta mode. See for yourself.     Try for yourself. Zip code 33427. You’re welcome.

San Fran-based Metromile is seeking a Controller; preferably one that can prepare and complete “annual and quarterly NAIC financial statements (Yellow Books) and other statutory financial filings for Metromile”.  Yellow...

Abernite. The company looks to provide guidance to technology companies, insurers and interested third parties on how analytics and data can support growth, innovation and disruption in insurance. #OneToWatch.

Think: Shai Eilat. Lemonade’s Senior Front-end Developer from May 2015 to April 2016. And while we are on the subject of who left, when. Here’s one more. Andrew Sinkov. Lemonade’s Launch Advisor from March 2016 to June 2016. Perhaps the company is nearing launch? Perhaps.