Cambridge-based auto insurance marketplace EverQuote launched EverDrive, a new driving score app that uses smartphone’s sensors to automatically measure behaviors like speeding, harsh braking, and phone distractions, as well as rank drivers on a scale...

Risk modeling firm RMS launched Cat-in-a Box, a cloud-based app designed to provide a quick and graphical approach to make the underwriting of parametric catastrophe risk contracts easier. Come again. Parametric...

John Hancock is the first insurance company in US to reward customers for healthy eating. Think: policyholders can opt in to the insurer’s HealthyFood program and receive reward cards that entitle them to discounts or cash back on foods...

Minneapolis-based Bright Health has raised $46.5 million of a venture capital financing that is designed to raise a total of $81.5 million. The overall company is designed to provide ‘consumer-focused health plans’,...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina COO Alan Hughes has resigned following an IT fiasco, which triggered an investigation by the NC Department of Insurance. Back up: since the...

China’s Anbang Insurance Group will buy the South Korean operations of Germany’s Allianz for ~$3 million. Recall: Anbang’s most recent overseas insurance foray was its $1.57 billion acquisition of US life-insurance provider...

Allstate’s Drivewise telematics program is now available in Ontario and Alberta. Worth Noting: Allstate’s telematics program is a ‘discount-only’ model where good driving is rewarded but risky driving isn’t penalized. Progressive has another take:...

Minneapolis-based Bright Health has raised $46.5 million of a venture capital financing that is designed to raise a total of $81.5 million. The overall company is designed to provide ‘consumer-focused health plans’,...

“We are not extinguishing brokers … yet!” – Knip Cofounder and CEO Dennis Just is feeling optimistic citing that customer education, aka marketing, has led to the conversion and adoption of digital broker...

Marias Technology, a provider of software testing, system implementations and integrations, hosting services and more, has launched a new website as part of its rebranding efforts. Before. After. Let’s try...

Geico is one of three sponsors behind Golf Magazine’s Golf Fix Finder app, which features ~140 interactive videos with instructions on how to improve your golf swing.

State Farm has received a new patent designed to keep sleepy, distracted, or drunk drivers awake through a series of vibrations and pokes from wearable devices. Bottom Line: envision a system that would...

Earlier this year, USAA terminated a 7-year-old relationship with advertising agency Campbell Ewald after one of the agency’s creative directors sent out a racist ‘Ghetto Day in San Antonio memo’. That was...

Media technology company AOL announced that it has selected MassDrive’s MyLifeProtected digital insurance solution as its sole insurance partner. Think: AOL members can enjoy comparative rating services for insurance products such as auto on AutoBlog.com (a subsidiary...