LA-based ZendyHealth, which brings the Priceline’s model to healthcare, expanded to orthopedics. The site allows users to submit a diagnostic service request (think: CT scans, Botox injections) along with the price they’d...

“Swiss Re has never produced a single nail, but it became a very large and successful company because we knew how to share our knowledge and we knew how to...

Another insurer undergoing restructuring for the sake of cost cutting. This time think: Liberty Insurance. Ireland. The insurer is cutting 70 jobs primarily from the commercial and back office functions as “difficult...

Travelers, which traditionally focused on providing insurance to medium and large sized businesses in the UK through the independent broker channel, is now using the online channel to target small businesses...

Over at The Zebra, ‘on demand’ means within 24 hours. Think: the online car insurance comparison platform backed by Shark Tank star Mark Cuban launched ‘Ask an Agent’; a resource where you can ask questions...

The London-based insurance startup is one of five teams selected to the Allianz France Accelerator program. Think: automated digital agent, aka ‘chatbot’. If you’re wondering ‘what’s in a name’, the founders liked the...

The Italian insurer plans to use Fitbits and other devices in the name of ‘exercise your way to a discount or sit your way through a premium hike’. Not an easy...

Plug and Play Insurance Director Ali Safavi says the accelerator is seeing a focus in the area of distribution models; anything from “helping agents or replacing agents”.  Recall: Plug and Play is calling for applications...

The school is going to teach students how to disrupt the financial sector because “many jobs will be situated in legacy banks that are currently racing to catch up with the...

Dallas-based healthcare startup PediaQ has raised $4.5 million to expand its footprint and services (think: video consultation) within its mobile app, which brings its total funding to date to $6.65 million. The startup’s ultimate goal...

China’s insurance regulator has approved the establishment of three mutual insurance associations, the first time such associations have been set up in China. The approval comes after the Chinese government...

Online Chinese insurer ZhongAn recently launched a new coverage that will compensate policyholders if they are hit by rain or high temperature when visiting the Shanghai Disneyland. Compensation will be made automatically, à la...

Zenefits chief David Sacks is proud of the 90% of staff that have chosen to stay with the company after he offered a “voluntary separation package” for those not drinking the...

Allianz took a minority stake in Berlin-based Simplesurance, which distributes its products in 28 European countries via customer portals like Schutzklick.de in Germany as well as some 1,500 online shops, in an...