Toronto-based Sun Life announced it has reevaluated how it underwrites health risks to redesign its life-insurance app and cut down on the amount of instances intrusive-slash-fluid tests are needed. As a result, the insurer expects that...

Munich Re Digital Partners, aka Munich Re’s global venture designed to partner with “digital disruptors” who are changing the way insurance is experienced by customers, has announced its latest pickup. Think: Wrisk,...

In a special white paper termed “Underwriting, Automation and the Customer Journey”, the folks at SCOR discuss the use of underwriting engines defined as decision making systems that “focus on the customer...

Esurance is slowly but surely expanding its homeowners insurance product to additional states .    

Yesterday Baidu announced that it had started testing self-driving vehicles in Wuzhen but that its relationship with BMW is on the rocks “because the development pace and the ideas of the two companies are a...

California-based startup Nuzzle wants to address two things: a lost pet and a sick pet. Nuzzle, which just launched today, is a GPS-enabled pet collar coupled with a mobile app that allows...

BNP Paribas, aka the bank for a changing world, is offering guidelines for financial institutions on digital technology and innovation via a new report termed “Rules for Digital Revolutionaries“.   Bottom Line...

“Already with the candidacy of Donald Trump, we have been operating our activities in the USA at a reduced pace since we have seen the development on the US market...

What is the Mannequin Challenge? a social media craze that sees people uploading videos of them looking as though they’ve been frozen in time. How did it start? not important, really...

CoverWallet announced it has raised $7.8 million in a Series A round led by Union Square Ventures . This is the second round of funding for the NYC-based digital commercial broker, which...

San Fran-based Fuzzy, the subscription-based pet-health service, today introduced its flagship app  that allows pet parents to store all their pet’s medical history as well as stay on top of...

Well this has been going on for at least a month now: MasterThis by Liberty Mutual. A content marketing initiative aiming to be the go-to resource for consumers looking to master anything...

Human Condition Safety (HC Safety), an early-stage company applying IoT and predictive analytics to workplace safety, today announced the appointment of a new management team to lead the organization into...

The Idaho Department of Insurance is the latest to fine Zenefits for knowingly letting employees sell insurance in Idaho without proper licenses. $25K is the price they pay . This is the...