AIA Group, the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group, has joined R3, the financial innovation firm partnership. R3 is designing and applying distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to...

Pay-per-mile car insurance Metromile joins car insurance comparison website Compare.com.

In the Bizarro world of insurance, the product that people buy hoping they never use it is replaced with products that people buy via an interactive and engaging learning experience....

Lyft and General Motors today announced the launch of their Express Drive short-term rental program exclusive to the Lyft platform. The program will make cars available to Lyft drivers at...

Boundlss and PolicyPal are two insurtech startups accepted to the 2016 cohort of Startupbootcamp FinTech Singapore accelerator scheduled to start on April 18. Australia-based Boundlss offers insurers a smart platform to attract and retain healthy members. Singapore-based...

Blockstream is a young Canadian startup founded in 2014 and based in Montreal. It specializes in blockchains, the technology behind the development of cryptocurrencies, of which the most widely known...

Picwell, the company providing predictive recommendation engine for health plan selection, today announced that it has closed a $3m extension of its Series A round of funding from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners...

Investor Carl Icahn, which owns a “large stake” in AIG is encouraging AIG CEO Peter Hancock, via an open letter, to split the company into three pieces declaring that AIG...

Insurance 4 That is a single item insurance solution, providing an alternative to traditional contents insurance by enabling people to insure individual items and nominate the insured value of these...

Today, AXA Group announced the launch of AXA Partners, a unit dedicated to developing partnership business globally. AXA Partners will be involved in co-creation of offers and distribution agreements whereby...

UK-based insurance aggregator, Gocompare, partners with Iovation, to launch a point-of-quote fraud detection service. Think: a la ‘every device has a story’, Iovation intelligence can tell whether the device used to...

Earlier this year, a group of eight leading insurers and brokers established a consortium to promote microinsurance ventures in developing countries, unsurprisingly called Microinsurance Venture Incubator (MVI). Together, AIG, Aspen...

ACE Group today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Transavia to provide the airline’s customers with travel and flight cancellation insurance cover. Transavia is a member of...

It’s that time of the year to capture 2014’s trending topics and throw in a prediction or two of our own, coupled with some fun insurance stuff. Here’s what we had:   1. Something Innovative...