“If 100 carriers were to compete in a bake off, all given the same ingredients, you would end up with 100 different cakes, and each carrier declaring they had the best...

CEO of BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina, Brad Wilson, is apologizing for the company’s slow customer service. Think: the insurance company is experiencing 400 – 500% more calls than last...

As part of its commitment to innovation, Liberty Mutual has launched Solaria Labs, an internal incubator tasked with developing products and services with transformational potential that will focus on identifying...

The insurer partnered with Human Condition Safety, a maker of wearable devices designed to reduce on-the-job accidents, as part of a broader push to cut work comp costs.

The insurer will offer ridesharing coverage for Ontario drivers come February.

Liberty Mutual introduced a new app called RightTrack in partnership with Subaru that offers real-time driving feedback and tips for the sake of better driving and ultimately lower insurance premiums. Bottom Line: the app will be available...

AIG today announced a strategic investment in Human Condition Safety (HCS), an early-stage technology startup company developing wearable devices, analytics, and systems to improve worker safety. Terms of the deal...

Scotland-based insurtech Cuvva, which offers car insurance coverage for as little as an hour via a mobile app, raised £400,000 in seed funding to grow its business. Incumbents watching: Tempcover, DayInsure,...

AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV), a global $250 million venture capital fund, today announces that it has added four new investments over the second half 2015 to its portfolio in the...

Despite its cleverly quirky cartoon ads, including one that depicts a distressed-looking male patient stretching open his briefs to snap a photo of his crotch with his smartphone, ~30% of Oscar’s new...

Zurich’s new strategy includes crops. The Swiss insurer looks to acquire MN-based agricultural insurer, Rural Community Insurance Services, from Wells Fargo for ~$1.05 billion. Recall: OneBeacon also exited crop insurance this past summer. Bottom Line: one’s...

“This is not a market where you just put your product up online and people buy it” – Michael Dixon, partner at Sequoia Capital, understands that healthtech players face a slow growth....

The Martin Agency’s “Unskippable” ads for Geico have won the Adweek’s award for the best ad campaign of 2015 while Compare the Market‘s meerkats Aleksandr and Sergei have won our hearts...

The out of nowhere soon-to-be P2P insurer, Lemonade, that raised $13 million to start its operations, revealed that it will propose a sharing economy alternative to traditional home insurance.