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Estrella Insurance family opens Miami burger restaurant

By Shefi Ben-Hutta

The name Star Burger is a reference to the family name, as “estrella” means “star” in Spanish.

Investments

Hollard Backs Emerging Insurtech Naked With ~$1.5M Investment

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

Naked, a Johannesburg-based insurance startup set to launch in 2018, has received R20 million (~$1.5M) in seed funding from Hollard and Yellowwoods. Naked an insuretech start-up company has received funding...

Business

Fanhua Announces Spin-off of its P&C Insurance Subsidiaries

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

Fanhua Inc., (Nasdaq:FANH), (the “Company” or “Fanhua”), a leading independent online-to-offline (“O2O”) financial services provider in China, today announced that, as part of its transition towards the fee-based property and...

Farmers Pioneers VR Training Program for Claims Reps

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

Farmers Insurance announced the deployment of a virtual reality (VR) program to help train claims representatives for home damage assessments. Trainees can navigate through an intuitive gamified learning course with...

Strategy

Uber Offers Phone Insurance via Credit Card, Trov via Web

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Yesterday Uber introduced the Uber Visa Card, a no-annual-fee credit card designed specifically with Uber riders in mind. With the card, users can earn rewards for their purchases, and those rewards stack up...

Innovation

Insurance Simplified to Pilot AI-Based Insurance Offering

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

According to a tweet published on October 25, 2017, Insurance Simplified is looking for SME consultants to pilot its new offering. Looking for 50 SME Consultants B part of MVP pilot...

Investments

Devoted Raises $62M to Offer Health Insurance to Your Mom

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Meet Devoted Health : Think: a new Waltham, MA-based healthcare company that aims to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, with the mission of building a health care solution good...

Video

Hartford is Building Something No One Else Has

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

According to a video published on Hartford’s YouTube channel on October 2, 2017, the 2nd largest WC insurer in the country has leveraged its combined workers’ compensation and disability data...

Product

Africell Launches Microinsurance Product in Collaboration With Willis Towers Watson

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Africell, a leading 4G network in Uganda, has launched Sierra Leone’s first mobile life insurance product, in partnership with Gras Savoye and Activia International . Same Gras Savoye that’s an insurance broker, part...

Business

Fast Five: Chris Cheatham, CEO, RiskGenius

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

The highlight of today’s insurance-slash-insurtech partnerships in 5 words? QBE’s Insurtech Chapter One = RiskGenius. Let me explain. AI-based PaaS provider RiskGenius announced its first industry partnership with QBE Ventures....

Innovation

Life Insurance Startup Haven Life Launches Facebook Chatbot

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

“Life insurance is expensive and confusing.” According to LIMRA’s 2017 Insurance Barometer Study, that’s the assumption most people (especially Millennials) make when it comes to purchasing coverage. You know what...

Member News

RiskGenius Announces Partnership with QBE

By Chris Cheatham ·

Overland Park, KS – October 26, 2017 – RiskGenius, developer of the RiskGenius Platform, which utilizes highly-specialized algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) to organize the world’s insurance policy information for carriers,...

Innovation

Meet “The Facebook of Insurance”

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Meet Casava : Think: an emerging startup from Lagos that claims to be Africa’s 1st P2P insurance company, established on July 1, 2016. Fast Five on Casava: (1) microinsurance products for millennials that can...

Ping An Launches Two AI-Based Products

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Last month Ping An unveiled two new products: Smart Verification and Smart Fast Claim. Smart Verification uses AI technologies such as face recognition and voice recognition to build a...

Business

It’s Friday in Health and Car Insurance

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

First. Denver-based Friday Health Plans is ready to offer plans through the Friday Health Plans brand starting January 1, 2018 . Look. Second. Speaking of Friday, thinking of Friday. The...

Member News

Jetty Renters Insurance Goes Big and Goes Home With Renters In 29 States, Adding New York, Texas and Others

By Jetty Press ·

Expansion makes Jetty Renters Insurance available to 70% of total U.S. renter population Additional new states include: Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota,...

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InsurGrid Launches Intake-to-ACORD Workflow for Commercial Insurance Agencies

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EZLynx Partners with First Connect to Bring All-in-One AMS to Member Agents

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Dearborn Labs Announces Launchpad, an AI Insurance Accelerator That Funds and Builds AI Infrastructure for MGAs

By Alec Martins, Clearcover ·

Regulators Don’t Want an AI Policy. They Want Receipts.

By Yo Sub Kwon, Voltaire ·

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