Bottom Line Up Front: As of today, product insurance brand is no longer open for business. Let’s back up. Established in August 2016, Back Me Up (BMU), aka the trading name of...

Great-West Lifeco Inc. (Great-West Lifeco) today announced its Colorado-based subsidiary, Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company (GWL&A), has completed the previously-announced sale, through reinsurance, of substantially all of its individual...

Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society (LV=) has agreed to sell its residual 30.1 percent stake in LV= General Insurance (LV=GI) to Allianz Group for up to £365 million. The sale marks...

Allianz UK to acquire 100% of Legal & General Insurance Limited, the general insurance business of Legal & General Group Plc for 242m pounds. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals....

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According to its site, Taylor Rhodes is now the CEO of ; replacing Reid French, who joined the company in 2011. Rhodes joined Applied after serving as CEO of SMS Assist,...

Jewelers Mutual’s policyholders to help decide how to allocate a $500,000 charitable donation to Feeding America, Kids In Need Foundation and Special Olympics. During 2019, the policyholders will be able to...

Meet : The Atlanta-based digital broker for personal lines was established in April by semi-celebrity Dennis McKinley. Powered by Bindable, Milk offers personal lines insurance via an online portal for auto, home,...

Accounting automation tool  has announced it has raised a $7.35m Series A led by QED Investors, with participation from 9Yards Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Financial Venture Studio, BootstrapLabs, and Dan...

Toronto-based  has raised $1.5m in Seed funding led by Ripple Ventures.   Established in 2015 and led by CEO Shiva Bhardwaj, Pitstop is a cloud-based automotive prognostic platform that enables customers to understand and leverage...

Northwestern Mutual has announced it has designated $150m to form Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures Fund II, an extension of the company’s corporate venture capital fund that launched in 2017. Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures Fund...

Professional services firm Genpact and digital auto insurer announced they are partnering “to further Root’s vision of reinventing the auto insurance industry.” The partnership will focus on optimizing claims and improving...

, an AI and deep-learning property analytics startup, has announced the close of Seed Series Transaction, with lead investor and Arturo co-developer American Family. Following the close of the transaction,...

The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRV) today announced that independent insurance agents who use the EZLynx Management System will now be notified instantly when their Travelers personal auto insurance customers make...