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Tech Update: Zurich Launches AI-Powered Tool to Boost Multinational Contract Certainty
Dec 31 2025 // Zurich Insurance Group has launched Zurich Program IQ to help multinational businesses operate with confidence in an increasingly complex risk environment. This new AI-powered tool has been designed to further enhance...
Another Winter Storm Disrupts US Holiday Air Travel on Monday
Dec 29 2025 // Another intense winter storm system stretching from the upper Midwest to the Northeast will once again test US airlines during the busy holiday travel period. Service is still trying to recover from days of disruption that...
Insurance Tech: Zywave Releases Suite of Specialized AI Agents
Dec 17 2025 // Insurance technology provider Zywave unveiled an agentic AI strategy, and what it calls the industry’s first suite of insurance-specialized AI agents. The agents will help insurance companies transform how they work...
Bjak Founder Weighs IPO as Malaysia Insurtech Seeks Expansion Into Europe
Dec 16 2025 // Bjak Sdn, Malaysia’s largest online insurance aggregator, is mulling an initial public offering within the next two years as it seeks to enter Europe. Bjak is eyeing new markets in Spain and Germany in 2026 following...
Drowning in Busywork? Tech to Help Agencies Reclaim Time and Boost Efficiency
Dec 15 2025 // With the winter holidays quickly approaching, independent agencies are looking for ways to reclaim precious time—to unwind and recharge. Between client requests, policy servicing, sales demands, carrier logins, and...
Fifth La Niña in Six Years to Disrupt Crops and Supply Chains
Dec 15 2025 // Deadly flooding in Asia and early snowstorms across the US are signaling the return of a weather-roiling La Niña, a cooling of Pacific waters that can disrupt economies and trigger disasters worldwide. In recent La Niña...
UConn, Georgia Tech Students Win ACORD Challenge Using AI Tools in Pet Insurance
Dec 11 2025 // The insurance industry data standards organization ACORD announced today that University of Connecticut graduate student Manasa Ramaka has won the ACORD Student Challenge 2025, a national competition that asks university...
Asahi Sales Drop Worsens as Cyber Hack Disruption Lingers
Dec 10 2025 // Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.’s November beer and other alcohol sales in Japan fell more than the previous month, underscoring the challenges the company faces in recovering from a cyberattack that crippled production...
Chubb, The Hartford, Liberty and Travelers Team Up on Surety Tech Launch
Dec 9 2025 // Four surety companies—Chubb, The Hartford, Liberty Mutual and Travelers—announced the launch of a technology company that will feature a shared digital infrastructure to advance the surety industry. According to a...
Health Department Unveils Strategy to Expand its Adoption of AI Tech
Dec 8 2025 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday outlined a strategy to expand its use of artificial intelligence, building on the Trump administration’s enthusiastic embrace of the rapidly advancing...
Leveling Up Fleet Safety with Inspection Technology
Dec 8 2025 // Pre- and post-trip inspections are a daily requirement for carriers. Many fleets still rely on paper Driver Vehicle Inspection Reports, or DVIR, that drivers must fill out by hand, but this approach can lead to illegible...
People Moves: Westfield Specialty International Taps Zurich’s Watson to Lead New Cyber Offering; Liberty Names Delvos From Corvus as Head of Cyber and Tech E&O, Europe
Dec 4 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Westfield Specialty International and Liberty Specialty Markets. A summary of these new hires follows here. Westfield Specialty Int’l Taps...
Tech Industry Drive to Block State AI Laws Hits Wall in Congress
Dec 3 2025 // A powerful coalition of tech companies backed by the White House’s artificial intelligence chief appears to have failed to persuade lawmakers to use a must-pass defense bill to block state governments from regulating...
Thailand’s Record Floods Paralyze Key Hubs for Tech and Car Parts
Dec 2 2025 // Thailand said floods that have devastated much of the country’s south have “paralyzed” the flow of high tech components and car parts to neighboring Malaysia, potentially benefiting rival exporters in...
Amazon, Google Named by EU Among ‘Critical’ Tech Providers for Finance Industry
Nov 19 2025 // European Union regulators on Tuesday designated 19 technology companies, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft, as critical third-party computing providers for the bloc’s finance industry. Under...
Has Insurtech Funding Found a Floor?
Nov 19 2025 // Two separate reports published this month show that while quarterly insurtech deal counts have plummeted from heights attained in 2021 and 2022, dollar levels invested in insurtechs have stabilized since late 2022. While...
How Big Tech Is Faring Against US Antitrust Lawsuits?
Nov 19 2025 // A federal judge ruling that Meta Platforms does not hold an illegal social media monopoly handed Big Tech its first decisive win against the antitrust crackdown started in President Donald Trump’s first term. Here...
Insurtech Hippo Reverses Q3 Loss During ‘Breakout Quarter’
Nov 17 2025 // Insurtech Hippo posted third-quarter 2025 net income of $98 million, compared with a net loss of $9 million a year ago during the same period. San Jose, California-based Hippo’s Q3 combined ratio improved to...
GoDaddy Hit With $170M Patent Verdict Over Web-Design Tech
Nov 10 2025 // Internet domain registrar GoDaddy GDDY.N owes a patent owner $170 million for violating its rights in website-building technology, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Friday. The jury agreed with...
Tech University Students Think Tiny Drones Inspired by Bats Could Save Lives
Nov 6 2025 // Don’t be fooled by the fog machine, spooky lights and fake bats: the robotics lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute lab isn’t hosting a late Halloween party. Instead, it’s a testing ground for tiny...
