Travelers’ customers with smart home devices are now eligible for a discount on their home insurance policies. Think: Protective Device discount. Available: nationwide. AmFam, Farmers and State Farm offer similar discounts.

Applied System users in UK can now enjoy seamless access to QBE products via their management system. One gets to offer more products, the other hopes to gain traction. Bottom Line: QBE...

Aviva reported higher 2015 earnings and disclosed its capital buffer for the first time, aka a Solvency II ratio of 180%*. That means Aviva can keep on investing in its...

Omaha-based Drive Spotter, a video platform to analyze and improve commercial fleets and driver performance, raised $750,000 in a round of financing led by Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance. Fun Fact: the startup was part of...

“Insurance 2.0” – principal at American Family Ventures Kyle Nakatsuji defines near term reinventions in insurance distribution, product and structure. The Gist: (1) Traditional broker channels are here to stay yet digital agencies and mobile first...

HCI Group, Inc. (NYSE:HCI), predominantly engaged in homeowners insurance, reinsurance, real estate and information technology, has launched TypTap.com, an online platform for quoting and binding flood insurance policies in Florida....

New York, March 8, 2016 – CoverWallet, the first online insurance manager, announced it received $2 million in seed funding from Two Sigma Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Founder Collective and a...

Admiral Group CEO Henry Engelhardt is making his last official visit this week to the company’s US businesses: Elephant Insurance and its sister company, Compare.com, before his planned retirement in two months. Worth...

Aftermarket connected car supplier Zubie has partnered with one of its investors, Castrol innoventures, to launch a joint telematics solution designed specifically for auto dealerships. First client: Motorcars in Cleveland.

According to iSpot, the number one spender on national TV advertising last week is Geico with its “Spy: It’s What You Do” campaign. Think: 6,298 national airings. Progressive made it to the fourth spot with...

American Family will deploy Pitney Bowes EngageOne Video software, as part of its new customer engagement strategy. The videos will be used to explain selected individual policies and coverage areas to...

Keyword: slowly. Nova Scotia has been slow to adopt telematics compared to Ontario and Quebec. Back up: several insurance companies in Nova Scotia are offering a dongle-centered program that allows people to...

Geico is using a press release (and a blog) to equip parents with safe driving tips for their new teen drivers. For those seeking a digital version, there’s Smart Drivinc. In the making.

Macquarie Group will sell its life insurance business to Zurich Australia citing the need for significant scale in order to drive appropriate returns in the life insurance industry. Off On a Tangent: the...