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🎉 2024-2025: Insurance deals, closures, and shifts

By Shefi Ben-Hutta

A quick rundown of the biggest stories, small changes, and other fun insurance stuff.

Opinion

Like Knocking Over a Coke Machine

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

Earlier this month, Shefi first presented “Insurance Under the Influence” at OnRamp, to later present the same topic at AIG. The presentation, which you can download here, talks about several external...

Business

Russian Insurer Offers Car Repair Concierge Service

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Moscow-based insurer VSK is partnering with car repair concierge ALFRED to allow car insurance customers to call an ALFRED driver to take their car to the repair shop. Here’s How it...

“New Tech is The Answer to Almost All of Our Challenges”

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Turns out, Stockholm-based If Insurance is the P&C insurer with the largest IT organization in the Nordic region. Three things. One. It has a dedicated workforce of over 100 IT developers...

Business

Digitalization & Innovation in a Meeting for Brokers

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Zurich Seguros has held a day in Madrid with strategic brokers attended by more than 80 representatives of brokerages throughout the national territory. At a time of historical transformation of the...

Business

Left With More Questions Than Answers

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Before: After: Reciproco was/is the trading name of Insurance4Good Ltd. It was established by Darren Munday (cofounder and CEO), Henok Yemane and Alessandro Linari that “set out to create a...

Business

Munich Re Partners With Fraugster to Combat Online Fraud

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

German-Israeli startup Fraugster, established in 2014, has developed an algorithm that checks in milliseconds whether online payment transactions are fraudulent to allow online sellers to approve transactions faster. Bottom Line...

Innovation

Vertoe Targets Tourists With On Demand Luggage Storage

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Meet Vertoe: Think: a New York based luggage storage startup that was launched in May 2016. The Idea – a site that finds nearby locations for one to...

Investments

Arvato Financial Solutions Invests in SecuredTouch

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Arvato Financial Solutions announced its investment in SecuredTouch, an Israeli company established in 2014 that specializes in behavioral biometrics authentication for mobile devices. Its technical platform uses the interaction between...

Investments

Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone Backs HealthTech Startup

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

New Delhi-based healthtech company Visit announced it has raised new funding from several investors including Twitter cofounder Biz Stone. The total amount raised is undisclosed. Visit, established in 2015, is a...

Innovation

Israeli Insurer Launches Travel Insurance Chatbot

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Israeli insurer Migdal announced the launch of a new chatbot called “Butti” to help shoppers purchase travel insurance. Limitations apply. Think: for customers under the age of 40 and...

What is Machine Learning and How Can it Help Insurers?

By Avi Ben-Hutta ·

What is machine learning? Machine Learning is very much in the spotlight. It underpins many of the day-to-day activities we do, such as the Google search engine, Amazon’s “Recommended for...

Business

Hanover Enhances Commercial Customer Service Center

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Hanover announced it has expanded its commercial lines customer service center to service additional specialty coverages within management liability. Specifically: (1) directors and officers, (2) employment practices liability, (3) fiduciary liability, (4) fidelity and...

Business

The World is Your Oyster

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Under the category of ’emerging WC players’, have a look at Oyster: According to its site, the Waltham, MA-based intermediary is offering WC coverage in NY and NJ, underwritten by Lancer...

Joslin Diabetes Center Partners With American Well

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Joslin Diabetes Center and American Well recently announced a collaboration to explore how to best use telemedicine to treat diabetes in the US – and eventually, around the world. Initially, American Well’s technology...

Generali to Sell Belgian Operations for €540M

By Shefi Ben-Hutta ·

Athora Holding, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management, has agreed to acquire Generali Belgium for a cash consideration of ~€540m ($668.5m). “This deal underlines our continuing efforts to...

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Member News

Negotiating a Fair Car Insurance Settlement

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Rudolph’s got a runny red nose?

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Vertafore’s Kelly Maheu joins the educational arm of the Big “I”

By Vertafore ·

Are your legacy systems keeping your applicants in the dark?

By Team at Sureify, Sureify ·

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By AgentSync, AgentSync ·

What do drivers think about telematics?

By Cambridge Mobile Telematics, Cambridge Mobile Telematics ·

Nationwide and TrustLayer: Changing the Game in Insurance Verification

By John Fohr, TrustLayer ·

Nationwide partners with TrustLayer to pioneer on-demand commercial insurance verification

By John Fohr, TrustLayer ·

Sure unveils vision for the future of insurance on its technology rails and network

By Sure, Inc. ·

Unlocking Efficiency in Life Insurance Renewals

By AgentSync, AgentSync ·

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