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Mavrix Insurance Services picks Crux in Admin Banyan Risk partnered with Accredited Insurance Lettuce Financial partnered with Coverdash Omaha National partnered with MGT Insurance Insureon partnered with LIO Insurance Ensurise raised $6.14M Strong Tower Insurance Group picks Outmarket AI in Sales Chubb partnered with BBVA Aviva picks Cardinus in Risk Mitigation Notch picks Krisp in Customer Service SurSafe Insurance Company picks Verisk in Underwriting Solva raised $6M CoverSavvy raised $100K RockRose Risk raised $12.5M Bravura Solutions raised $70.58M

Vanguard to acquire Altruist

By Shefi Ben-Hutta

Altruist also operates Hazel, an AI platform for financial and tax planning.

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,...

Spotted; Kin’s New Look

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Before. After. Recall: Kin is a Chicago-based home insurance provider that launched this summer with $4M in funding from 500 Startups and Chicago Ventures, to name two. Here’s...

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Three ways AI is changing insurance agencies

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CTC Insurance Brings Direct Bill Reconciliation Fully In-House with Applied Recon

By Chase Petrey, Applied Systems ·

Fuse Launches Terminal, Bloomberg for Commercial Insurance

By Sean Bourgeois, Fuse ·

Zywave 2026 Midyear Market Outlooks: Agentic AI a Defining Force in Shaping Coverage, Benefits, and Workforce Strategy

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ALPS Corporation Goes Live on OneShield Market Solutions

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The Insurance Distribution Model of the Future

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3 Emerging Specialty Markets MGAs Should Watch

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7 Takeaways from the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Working Group at the NAIC 2026 Summer National Meeting

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Big ‘I’ report shows a stabilizing insurance market

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Vanguard to acquire Altruist

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

Farmers Pioneers VR Training Program for Claims Reps

Uber Offers Phone Insurance via Credit Card, Trov via Web

Insurance Simplified to Pilot AI-Based Insurance Offering

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

Hartford is Building Something No One Else Has

Africell Launches Microinsurance Product in Collaboration With Willis Towers Watson

Fast Five: Chris Cheatham, CEO, RiskGenius

Life Insurance Startup Haven Life Launches Facebook Chatbot

RiskGenius Announces Partnership with QBE

Meet “The Facebook of Insurance”

Ping An Launches Two AI-Based Products

It’s Friday in Health and Car Insurance

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

Spotted; Kin’s New Look

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Three ways AI is changing insurance agencies

CTC Insurance Brings Direct Bill Reconciliation Fully In-House with Applied Recon

Fuse Launches Terminal, Bloomberg for Commercial Insurance

Zywave 2026 Midyear Market Outlooks: Agentic AI a Defining Force in Shaping Coverage, Benefits, and Workforce Strategy

ALPS Corporation Goes Live on OneShield Market Solutions

The Insurance Distribution Model of the Future

3 Emerging Specialty Markets MGAs Should Watch

7 Takeaways from the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Working Group at the NAIC 2026 Summer National Meeting

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Big ‘I’ report shows a stabilizing insurance market

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