Latest New Markets Headlines
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Everest Launches Cyber Protection for Private Equity Firms, Portfolio Companies
May 10 2017 // Everest Insurance has collaborated with cybersecurity firm, Soteria, LLC, and its group of former U.S. government cyber security experts, in conjunction with the launch of its new Elevation Private Equity Insurance...
Startup Lemonade Enters California Homeowners, Renters Insurance Markets
May 10 2017 // Insurance startup Lemonade is now selling homeowners and renters insurance in California. California marks the third state of entry for the insurtech that is built on artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. It...
New Commercial Insurer, Motorists Insurance, to Launch in Tennessee
May 3 2017 // Motorists Insurance Group, based in Columbus, Ohio, has launched a new commercial lines company – Motorists Insurance – in Michigan and Tennessee. The company features state-of-the-art technology to make the process...
Ohio’s Motorists Insurance Launches Commercial Insurance Company
May 2 2017 // Motorists Insurance Group, based in Columbus, Ohio, has launched a new commercial lines company – Motorists Insurance – in Michigan and Tennessee. The company features state-of-the-art technology to make the process...
Study Finds Insurtech Funding Dips as Startups Launch; Predicts Small Business Disruption Ahead
May 2 2017 // Total insurtech funding in the first quarter of 2017 was down, but the drop-off could be a result of the significant investments in 2016 now reaching the product launch phase, according to a report by Willis Towers Watson...
Florida Peninsula Insurance Launches Online Quoting for Homeowners Coverage
Apr 28 2017 // Florida Peninsula Insurance Company, a Florida homeowner insurance carrier, has launched a new online system offering homeowners insurance quotes to consumers. According to Clint Strauch, president of Florida Peninsula...
Hippo Launches with Promise of 60-Second Homeowners Insurance Quote
Apr 26 2017 // An insurtech firm launched in California today with the promise of providing online homeowners insurance quotes in 60 seconds in what the Mountain View, Calif.-based company is calling “the most fundamental redesign...
All Risks Launches Commercial Earthquake Program
Apr 18 2017 // All Risks, Ltd. has introduced a new Specialty Property Earthquake Program with an exclusive A.M. Best “A” rated carrier. The Specialty Property Earthquake Program provides difference in conditions insurance,...
Willis Towers Watson Launches Cyber Aviation Cover with AIG Collaboration
Apr 10 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has introduced CyFly, an insurance solution specifically tailored to cover cyber exposure affecting the airline industry. The recent Willis Towers Watson Industry Risk Index identified failure of...
UK MGA Plum Launches High Net Worth Home Cyber Cover
Apr 7 2017 // Plum Underwriting, the London-based specialist home insurance managing general agent, announced the launch of cyber and data risks cover embedded within high net worth (HNW) and mid net worth (MNW) home insurance products...
Allianz Insurance Launches Live Video Streaming Platform for Property Claims
Mar 31 2017 // Allianz Insurance, the U.K.-based subsidiary of Allianz SE, has launched a video streaming platform called Allianz Site View, which is designed to enhance its claims proposition by enabling customers to send images, video...
The Hanover Launches Professional Liability Risk Management Portal
Mar 27 2017 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has launched a new online portal featuring risk management tools for the professional liability industry. HanoverProRisk offers articles, templates, risk bulletins and seminars focused on...
Neon Launches Marine & Offshore Construction Consortium
Mar 23 2017 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Neon has launched a Marine and Offshore Construction Consortium. Seeking to address the increasingly tailored insurance needs of shipyard clients, the Neon led-consortium offers $70...
CFC Underwriting Launches Cyber Incident Response App
Mar 22 2017 // Specialist lines underwriting agency, CFC Underwriting, has launched a cyber incident response application that will allow policyholders to notify a claim with a click of a button and receive specialist support from...
QBE Launches Privacy, Network Security Coverage for Businesses
Mar 16 2017 // QBE North America, an operating division of QBE Insurance Group Limited, has launched a new privacy & network security offering as part of its continued specialty insurance expansion. The new Solution for Cyber Risk...
Liability Risk Modeling Tool Launched by Lloyd’s and AIR’s Arium
Mar 14 2017 // Lloyd’s and modeling company Arium have launched a tool designed to enable insurers and reinsurers to model liability exposure probabilistically across their entire portfolios, Lloyd’s announced. “The new...
Markel International Launches Surety Business; Team Leaders Appointed
Mar 9 2017 // Markel International, the London-based specialist insurer and Markel Corp. subsidiary, has launched a surety offering, following the appointment Damian Manning to head the new team and David Chandler as senior...
Allied World Launches 3 Professional Liability Products in Australia
Mar 8 2017 // Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings AG announced it has launched three new professional liability products in Australia: Directors and Officers Liability Insurance, Architects and Engineers Professional Indemnity...
ProSpecialist Insurance Services, LLC Announces New Appointment for an Admitted Lawyers Professional Liability Product in New York
Mar 7 2017 // Newtown, PA, March 7, 2017– ProLawyer Insurance, LLC dba ProSpecialist Insurance Services, LLC is pleased to announce their appointment with an A.M. Best “A” (Excellent) rated carrier for Lawyers Professional...
Lloyd’s MGA, CFC Underwriting, Launches Cyber Incident Response App
Mar 6 2017 // CFC Underwriting, the London-based specialist lines underwriting agency, announced the launch of a new cyber incident response application. The app allows policyholders to notify a claim with a click of a button and...
