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The Swiss ‘mobile-first’ digital insurance broker introduced three new features to its app. Consumers can upload existing policies via images, chat with experts and report claims, also via images. Bottom Line:...
Faraday Future is “growing fast” and “building rapidly”. They are now FF.com. Not everyone is convinced. I find FF to be secretly confusing. I also find Blockchain to be openly confusing. That being...
Toronto-based lifestyle insurer Manulife is changing how it underwrites term life insurance policies of up to $1,000,000 purchased by new customers in the 18-40 age group. Think: the company is doing away with...
Not long ago, bicycle insurance wasn’t a lucrative business due to its high fraud exposure. That was then. Bike-ID is now. In partnership with If Insurance, the Berlin-based startup is changing...
The online insurance broker has signed a five-year lease for an office space located on 19th St. between 5th and 6th Ave., in the Flatiron District; just a 3-minute walk from...
Next Insurance, which recently announced a $13 million round of funding to launch a small business insurance platform, has partnered with Hiscox. Customers visiting the Next-Insurance website are prompted to enter basic data elements (business profession,...
Fortune posted its first piece of ‘VC to VC’; a monthly series that features conversations between veteran venture capitalist Phil Wickham and other leaders in the investment world. The Gist: there’s...
Founding CEO of telemedicine provider Doctor on Demand Adam Jackson will be replaced by Hill Ferguson, a former PayPal executive, because the company needs “a leader with a different set of skills to...
Yesterday Zenefits announced a five-year pledge to hire veterans to fill 10% of its positions as part of a special White House initiative called Joining Forces. Bottom Line: Tag under ‘reputation repairing’
Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg says reception to the new Chubb has been terrific. Now, look at Chubb’s “C” – that’s hot.
“There’s an inherent contradiction in trying to find people who are at once insiders to an industry and at the same time outsiders to it. It’s profoundly difficult, perhaps even...
Not only will 25% of insurance professionals will retire by 2018 but also the overall participation in golf continues to drop. File under ‘coincidences’. Assistant Underwriters and Senior Claims Adjusters report low levels of...
Director of research and innovation at Esurance Haden Kirkpatrick took the stage at INN’s Inaugural DigIn Conference, which took place May 2-3 in Austin. The Gist: the Allstate Company claims to be betting...
Bain Capital Private Equity and Vista Equity Partners will jointly acquire insurance technology company Vertafore from TPG Capital for what some say is a deal worth $2.7 billion. Recall: Vertafore recently acquired...
Driverless cars may reduce car accidents, which may prompt a “false sense of security” among consumers, which may prompt some to have ‘a lot more sex’ (while riding, not driving), which may be bad for Geico but good for...
