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Aon, Insurtech Startup Etherisc Launch Blockchain-Based Agriculture Insurance
Jul 1 2019 // Aon plc has partnered with anti-poverty organization Oxfam and insurtech startup Etherisc to launch a blockchain-based platform that provides agriculture insurance for smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka. Nearly 200 Sri...
Technology Expected to Aid Drivers in Arizona Dust Storms
Jul 1 2019 // With Arizona’s monsoon season quickly approaching, state transportation planners plan to begin installing a new dust-detection system on Interstate 10. The Arizona Department of Transportation recorded 85...
Preparing for the Unpredictable Talent Considerations for CAT Season
Jul 1 2019 // The combined global losses from natural disasters in 2017 and 2018 were the highest ever for a two-year period. While no single major catastrophe caused massive destruction in 2018, nearly 400 smaller natural disasters...
Insurance Agents Have Come to Embrace Insurtech. When Will Carriers?
Jul 1 2019 // There used to be a time when independent insurance agents were wary of what disruption insurtech might bring. They feared a future where all insurance transactions were done digitally — eliminating the need for the...
Senators Eye Making Tech Giants Reveal How Much Customers’ Data Is Worth
Jun 26 2019 // As Congress bears down on big tech companies, two senators want to force giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon to tell users what data they’re collecting from them and how much it’s worth. The legislation...
Data-Driven Insurance Future Clouded by Data Ownership Uncertainty
Jun 26 2019 // Insurers need to learn to share their data if they want to take full advantage of the mountain of information generated from connected devices, insurtech executives say. Along the way, somebody’s got to figure out...
Kentucky Looks to Encourage Insurtech Investments Through Regulatory ‘Sandbox’
Jun 26 2019 // The Kentucky Legislature has passed the first state law in the U.S. providing comprehensive framework for an insurance regulatory “sandbox” for insurance technology products. The new regulatory sandbox, which...
Technology Expected to Aid Drivers in Arizona Dust Storms
Jun 24 2019 // With Arizona’s monsoon season quickly approaching, state transportation planners plan to begin installing a new dust-detection system on Interstate 10. The Arizona Department of Transportation recorded 85...
Argo Deploys Insurtech Platform from AVYST to Streamline Risk Submissions
Jun 21 2019 // Argo Group International Holdings, the Bermuda-based specialty re/insurer, has adopted an insurtech platform that enables managing general agents, wholesalers and independent brokers to submit, quote and bind risks...
What to Expect in Agency Technology
Jun 21 2019 // To say the agency technology space is robust is an understatement. Right now, the industry is seeing an “onslaught of technology available to enable agents and brokers to better manage, not only their business, but...
Severe Weather Spurs Flooding, Disrupts Rail Service in Pennsylvania
Jun 21 2019 // Severe storms containing heavy rains and strong winds have spurred flooding in the suburbs of Philadelphia, disrupting travel and damaging some property. The storms started Wednesday night and continued for several hours...
CNA Enhances Multinational Capabilities with New Technology Platform
Jun 20 2019 // CNA has launched a new technology platform – CNA ComPass – that will allow the insurer and its network partners the ability to write and manage local admitted placements around the world in real-time. CNA’s...
Senator Calls for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to Lose Immunity If Politically Biased
Jun 20 2019 // Technology platforms such as Facebook Inc. and Google’s YouTube could face a flood of lawsuits unless they can demonstrate their treatment of users’ content is politically neutral, under a measure that U.S....
Hub Acquires Assets of Atlanta-based Insurtech In-Fi; Hires Chasteen
Jun 18 2019 // Hub International Limited, has acquired the assets of CBIS, LLC, d/b/a “In-Fi” (In-Fi). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2016 by co-founder Jon Chasteen, In-Fi developed a...
ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge’s European Winner Is Riskbook
Jun 17 2019 // ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has announced that Riskbook was the winner of the London semi-final round of the ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge (AIIC), with RITA and Optimiz.Claims named...
How Insurtech Will Revolutionize Inland Marine by Cutting Costs
Jun 17 2019 // Insurtech advances will soon drive down unacceptably high expense ratios in the inland marine sector, making it possible to insure even difficult-to-place, small or one-off inland marine risks at the best possible...
A Place for Technology at Every Point in the Claims Process
Jun 17 2019 // The digital transformation of the insurance industry isn’t just for insurtech startups any more. At Allstate, 60 percent of claims are now filed with a cell phone application that allows policyholders to take photos...
MGA Insurtech GetSafe Lands $17M Financing to Fuel European Expansion
Jun 11 2019 // A managing general agent in Germany that relies on artificial intelligence for its customer platform has raised $17 million in first-round financing. Getsafe’s new money will help propel an expansion into Great...
Carrier Management Announces the Launch of InsurTech Today
Jun 10 2019 // San Diego, CA, June 10, 2019 – Today Carrier Management premiers a brand-new newsletter called InsurTech Today. This inbox resource is written for those who value a quick take on the most important InsurTech...
Amazon Reveals Unique Delivery Drone; FAA Grants Limited Testing Approval
Jun 6 2019 // Amazon.com Inc. has unveiled a revolutionary new drone — part helicopter and part science-fiction aircraft — that the company expects to use for test deliveries of toothpaste and other household goods starting...
