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CURAPLAN raised $2.5M Goosehead Insurance partnered with Liberty Mutual HoneyQuote partnered with Progressive HoneyQuote partnered with Slide Insurance RenewBuy raised $10M Cytora picks AISIX Solutions in Underwriting Brown & Brown picks Certificate Hero in Sales biBERK picks Kameleoon in Sales Bene Assicurazioni partnered with Helmon Bene Assicurazioni partnered with Munich Re MGT Insurance picks Swallow in Pricing Reliance Global Group raised $6.75M Inclined Technologies raised $7.88M TAL picks Cover Genius in Sales iA Financial Group raised $294.23M

CHERRISK fades as UNIQA consolidates

By Shefi Ben-Hutta

The brand expanded to Germany but began retreating in 2021 when coverage was no longer available there.

Business

Two Insurtechs Unite: MyGearVault and Front Row Insurance

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

MyGearVault (MGV), which launched earlier this year in the US to offer photographers and videographers a mobile app to store their equipment and get insurance too, is now live in...

Business

Zurich Appoints Blanca Berruguete Global Relationship Leader of its Business Unit

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Zurich Seguros announces the appointment of Blanca Berruguete as Global Relationship Leader of the Zurich Empresas unit. Her responsibility is to manage the relationships with the large corporate clients of the...

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...

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P1 Finance Joins ePayPolicy's Finance Connect Network

By Justin Jaksha, ePayPolicy ·

Amazon CEO Predicts Billions of AI Agents—Agentech is Delivering Hundreds Today for Insurance Claims

By Robin Roberson, Agentech ·

Entering a new age of insurance loss control

By Vertafore ·

Tariffs and P&C Insurance: Potential Impacts and Innovative Solutions for Continued Profitability

By AgentSync, AgentSync ·

Delegation of Authority Software for Audit-Ready Governance and Signatory Risk Compliance

By Robin Roberson, Agentech ·

Quility Celebrates the Agents and Insurtech Behind One Million Families Protected

By Quility Insurance ·

Former AIG and AXA XL Chief Underwriter Chris Kopser Joins Findevor as Executive Advisor

By Alex Valdes, Findevor ·

Indemn AI Partners with Millennial Shift Technologies to Revolutionize Cyber Insurance Distribution Channels, Empowering IMOs, BGAs, and Agents with Generative AI

By Indemn Team, Indemn ·

Report Reveals Top Mobile Apps Behind Distracted Driving

By Cambridge Mobile Telematics, Cambridge Mobile Telematics ·

Why MGAs are expanding globally

By Vertafore ·

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