New Hampshire startup accelerator Alpha Loft chose six companies to participate in Accelerate NH 2016. One such company is ValChoice, an analytics platform measuring financial and compliance data points of insurance companies. Some call...

Insurance software provider Vertafore acquired Keal Technology, a leading provider of broker and commercial management systems in Canada. One gets financial backing, the other expands its international footprint. Keal will be keeping its brand....

A new industry-specific program called DeepMind Health has been launched by Google’s DeepMind Artificial Intelligence group. The group is working on a ‘Streams app’ to help diagnose acute kidney injury and is...

Progressive launched a new blog. Lifelanes. Bottom Line: content is king if the kingdom is interested.

“One of my friends says he is glad that only a few animals can talk, since the ones that do speak seem unable to discuss any subject but insurance” – Warren...

Sun Life of Canada and local telecommunications giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone have teamed up to weave digital and mobile technologies into insurance services while using Voyager Innovations’ various digital...

“Results are impacted by floods but I am getting annoyed by the commentary totally blaming the floods” – Axa CEO Paul Evans on those blaming losses on recent flooding. By those, think Jon Dye of Allianz who...

Bottom Line: Trump may not be a member, but he is family. Huge.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, which thinks that if you sought out a system designed to bring the worst out of people, it would look a lot like modern day insurance,...

Supposedly MetLife is preparing to part ways with its ~4,000 life-insurance agents. MassMutual may be on the receiving end, looking to boost its current sales force of 5,600 agents.

Gravie, which raised $12.5 million in series B funding last year, is cutting 25% of its workforce, aka 21 employees. Rest assured, the health-tech startup is ‘growing rapidly’ yet CEO Abir Sen believes “It’s...

“The Google Compare service itself hasn’t driven the success we hoped for” – Google Compare announces the shutdown of its insurance and financial products comparison service tool in US and UK...

Axa has partnered with Samsung in the development and launch of a telematics offering that includes a dongle and an app. Not clear whether the reward is pizza or cash back. Bottom Line: will be...

Insurance Australia Group is keeping busy with 1) a reverse auction site that allows consumers to access suppliers that, in turn, will compete for the business, 2) a vehicle-as-a-service offering aimed at tradespeople that...