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Single Pilot Operations for Air Cargo a Test for Autonomous Flying
Oct 11 2018 // Aerospace and innovation have gone hand-in-hand since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Airplanes were once simple metal tubes powered by propellers. Long-haul flying meant four engines and at least three pilots on...
Efficiency, Insurtech, Auto Uncertainty Drive Insurance M&A Activity, Says S&P
Oct 10 2018 // After one of the most active years for mergers and acquisitions in property/casualty and life insurance, market conditions point to a continued push for deals, according to analysis by S&P Global Market...
American Economists’ Work on Climate Change, Benefits of Technology Earn Nobel Prize
Oct 9 2018 // Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, pioneers in adapting the western economic growth model to focus on environmental issues and sharing the benefits of technology, won the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday. In a...
It’s Not Easy to Teach Robot Drivers to Think Like Humans
Oct 9 2018 // Robot cars make for annoying drivers. Relative to human motorists, the driverless vehicles now undergoing testing on public roads are overly cautious, maddeningly slow, and prone to abrupt halts or bizarre paralysis caused...
Insurance Industry in Best Position to Advance Consumer Trust in Automated Driving
Oct 9 2018 // While the race to automated vehicles picks up speed, a new survey reveals consumer are skeptical of the technology and the safety claims of its advocates, a new survey finds. Also, the insurance industry may be in the best...
Get Ready for the Insurtech Revolution, Act 2
Oct 8 2018 // The digital revolution in insurance is about to begin its second act. Having in its first phase used science and technology to inspire a rethinking of insurance that is making insurance easier and more efficient to buy and...
Lending Tree to Buy Online Insurance Service QuoteWizard for $370M
Oct 5 2018 // Online financial services marketplace LendingTree Inc. said it has agreed to acquire QuoteWizard.com, one of the largest online insurance comparison marketplaces. Since its founding in 2006, QuoteWizard has helped nearly...
UK Venture Capital Fund Eos Makes First Two Insurtech Investments
Oct 3 2018 // Eos Venture Partners’ strategic insurtech fund has made its first two investments. The UK-based specialist venture capital fund, working through its debut EVP 1 fund, committed early financing to Concirrus, a marine...
Insurtech Jumpstart Rolls out Parametric Earthquake Product for Californians
Oct 2 2018 // A firm that wants to make a name for itself as the first parametric insurtech in the U.S. for earthquakes has officially launched in California, over a year after its anticipated original launch date. Jumpstart Insurance...
Insurtech Kin Insurance Expands Homeowners Offering into Georgia
Oct 2 2018 // Kin Insurance, an insurtech startup offering insurance for homeowners, has expanded into Georgia. Kin uses big data analysis to help simplify the process of obtaining homeowners insurance. Kin aggregates data from public...
15 Most Popular Insurtech Stories
Oct 1 2018 // News about insurtechs happens almost every day. This week, innovation and insurtech will be on the minds of many as an estimated 6,000 insurance professionals and entrepreneurs meet in Las Vegas for the InsureTech Connect...
For True Disruption, Embrace Innovation
Oct 1 2018 // The auto insurance industry is in the midst of major disruption powered by technology and vibrant new players. Disruption gives way to fresh ideas that can have both profound and positive impacts on our lives and...
Commercial Auto: Profitability Issues Remain, but There’s Light at the End of Tunnel
Oct 1 2018 // Despite insurers’ best efforts to increase rates to compensate for losses, commercial auto continues to be an unprofitable line. In less than a decade, despite continued increases in premiums, two major carriers have...
Insurance Pros’ Guide to How to Dress, Behave, Speak at InsureTech Conference
Sep 28 2018 // It’s billed as the “world’s largest gathering of insurance leaders and innovators.” So, of course, as an insurance leader and/or innovator you will be one of the 6,000 attendees at the ITC—the...
The Hidden Truth About MoviePass
Sep 28 2018 // MoviePass. Consumers love it, consumers hate it. Savior of the movie theater, destroyer of the movie theater. It’s one of the most hotly-debated companies of the past five years, particularly as industry analysts try...
Claims Technology Firm Snapsheet Names PwC’s Yoder as President
Sep 27 2018 // Virtual claims technology firm Snapsheet has appointed insurance industry veteran Jamie Yoder as president. Yoder will lead activities across Snapsheet’s business lines, including virtual appraisals, fleet and rental...
Insurtech Accelerator Seeks New Director as Hemesath Transitions
Sep 26 2018 // The Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA) has begun a search for a new managing director. Brian Hemesath, the current managing director who has taken GIA from concept to a leadership role in insurtech, will become alumni...
Berlin-Based Insurtech Firm Coya Launches with Home Content Insurance – as a Start
Sep 26 2018 // Insurtech startup Coya has launched home content insurance cover, designed to be “affordable, transparent and easily accessible.” But Berlin-based Coya said home insurance is just the start and many other forms...
U.S. Safety Agency Targets Pilot Fatigue with Technology, Stricter Work Rules
Sep 26 2018 // U.S. accident investigators probing a San Francisco incident last year in which a jetliner was mere feet from landing on top of at least one other plane are poised to recommend new automated safety warnings and better...
IBM Being Sued for Age Discrimination
Sep 21 2018 // Shannon Liss-Riordan has been compared to “a pit bull with a Chihuahua in its mouth.” In a career spanning almost 20 years, the Boston-based lawyer has gone after corporations that have either harmed consumers...
