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REIN partnered with Progressive REIN partnered with Travelers REIN partnered with Assurant REIN partnered with Independence American Insurance Company REIN partnered with TruStage Manatee Insurance Exchange picks E-Claim.com in Claims Fairfax Financial Holdings raised $900M Shelter Insurance picks Shift Technology in Claims Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) picks Fadata in Admin Cable Insurance Company picks TruckerCloud in Claims Nationwide picks Kadance in Claims Slide Insurance raised $250M Wunderite raised $1.4M Athene raised $1B Bestow raised $50M

Ardonagh Advisory rebrands as Everywhen

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The new brand will unify more than 45 advisory businesses under a single identity.

Business

Fidelity & Guaranty Life & Anbang: still complicated

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Fidelity & Guaranty Life has extended the deadline for its $1.6 billion sale to China’s Anbang Insurance Group, and has negotiated the right to accept other offers. The delay gives Anbang...

Business

InsurTech Startup Hippo Partners With Virtual Insurance Agent Provider Elafris

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

Hippo, a company that provides smart home insurance for the modern household, and Elafris, a supplier of the first artificial intelligence powered virtual agent platform for the Insurance industry, announced...

Business

Mercury Insurance Launches Ride-Hailing Insurance For Nevada’s Uber & Lyft Drivers

By Melissa Kramer ·

Auto coverage will start once drivers turn on for-hire ride-hailing apps Today, Mercury Insurance (MCY) announced that it is offering ride-hailing insurance to cover Uber, Lyft and other Transportation Network...

Business

BNP Paribas strengthens ties with Plug and Play

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

Think: any entity of BNP Paribas will have access to all the sites of Plug and Play globally and the two will launch an accelerator program for fintech and inurtech in...

Business

Zenefits’ 360° degree turn

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

“Seriously, crappy food” – how one employee described the ‘cons’ of working for Zenefits this week. Speaking of Zenefits, its new CEO Jay Fulcher just announced that the company would lay...

Investments

ReMark Partners With Umanlife

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Umanlife have deployed their award-winning solutions in a wide range of industries and environments and have an impressive client list. Umanlife’s platform is an exciting step change in ReMark’s proposition...

Business

Another pet startup gains attention

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

Kansas City-based FitBark announced an exclusive partnership with PetSure to launch its dog activity monitor in Australia . PetSure is wholly-owned by Hollard and services some 360K happy pet insurance customers. Read...

Business

Niche Branding: 5 Lessons From an InsurTech Startup that Made It

By Eric Narcisco ·

Do you make niche branding a priority in your agency? If not, you should. In the past year I’ve learned a few very powerful lessons about focus and it’s...

Business

Geico builds the case for using social media data

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

BLUF. $61,465 is what Geico paid and later recovered thanks to intel discovered via a YouTube video . Let me explain. A Corvette owner lied about how his vehicle was totaled telling Geico the incident happened...

Business

Anthem-Cigna deal blocked

By Melissa Kramer ·

Feels like deja vu all over again. A federal judge rejected Anthem’s $54 billion bid to buy rival health insurer Cigna, saying the merger would likely lead to higher costs, less...

Investments

Inbox Health raised $1.5 to reinvent patient billing

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

Patient billing and payment software Inbox Health announced it has raised $1.5 million in a Seed round led by Connecticut Innovations. The CT-based startup offers a software that helps patients understand coverage and...

Business

Delving into Arity Developer

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

There’s a bit more clarity on Arity. Recall: Arity is Allstate’s standalone data and analytics unit launched last year. The company is taking an API-centric approach; at the moment around two areas: Driving...

Investments

CXA Group nabs $25 million

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Singapore-based CXA Group (short for ConneXionsAsia) announced it has picked up $25 million in a Series B round bringing its total funding to date to $33 million. The startup, valued at $100...

Business

UK has the answer to driverless insurance

By Melissa Kramer ·

UK’s Department for Transport will soon announce that driverless cars will require drivers to take out ‘two-in-one’ insurance policies that will ensure claims made against cars which crash while in driverless mode will be paid...

Investments

A word with Brian Kaas

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

“Leveraging new technology, like Rippleshot has developed, will make it easier to detect and prevent payment fraud in a way that will protect members and strengthen credit unions for the...

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