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With $25 Million in New Funding, Home Insurtech Hippo to Expand
Jan 24 2018 // Insurtech Hippo has nailed down $25 million in new Series B funding, a cash infusion the provider of super-quick homeowners insurance will use to fuel a hiring and geographical expansion. Comcast Ventures and Fifth Wall...
If They Try It, They’ll Like It: How Ridesharing, Autonomous Cars Will Win Over the Public
Jan 23 2018 // Five years ago, when she was still an insurance broker with Marsh, Kate Sampson called insurance underwriters at American International Group (AIG) and other insurers with a new concept. “I’m working with this...
California Wholesaler Conference Questions: Rising Premiums, Disruption, Disasters?
Jan 22 2018 // Surplus lines in California had a great year with more premium and more items, such as policies and endorsements sold. However, surplus lines brokers had to work harder for all that premium. That’s according to Ben...
Tech Talk: The Real Threat to Agents from Amazon
Jan 22 2018 // Amazon may be close to jumping back into insurance, at least in India, with this month’s announcement of a possible investment in an online-only insurance startup. Whether the retailing behemoth is or isn’t,...
Industry Needs to Join Insurtech Wave to Digitize Insurance: AFL’s Esser
Jan 18 2018 // There is a fundamental need for reform and modernization, particularly in the London market. We should be electronically processing all lines of business, not just specialty classes. Of course, we should look at ubiquitous...
Insurtech Lemonade’s Co-Founder Accuses Amazon of Poaching Employees
Jan 18 2018 // With two social media posts, Shai Wininger, co-founder of the insurtech Lemonade, accused giant Amazon of poaching employees of his startup insurance carrier that is powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral...
Supreme Court Case on SEC Judges Could Disrupt Administrative Proceedings
Jan 16 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges were appointed in violation of the Constitution, agreeing to hear a case that could upend administrative hearing...
Homeowners Insurtech Hippo Partners with Spinnaker to Expand into States
Jan 11 2018 // California-based insurtech company Hippo has formed a strategic partnership with Spinnaker Insurance Co. to expand its product offerings into new states. Hippo offers homeowners insurance through an online platform, as...
California Wholesaler Conference Questions: Rising Premiums, Disruption, Disasters?
Jan 9 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Surplus lines in California had a great year with more premium and more items, such as policies and endorsements sold. However, surplus lines brokers had to work harder for all that...
eReinsure Adds Blockchain Services to Reinsurance Technology Platform
Jan 9 2018 // eReinsure.com, Inc., a global specialty insurance distributor and part of AmWINS Group, will offer a blockchain service linked to its reinsurance platform to help companies share information. According to Igor...
Drivers Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon, Say Driverless Car Leaders
Jan 9 2018 // Carmakers and tech companies have fallen over one another in recent weeks to show the strides they’ve made with self-driving cars. At CES — usually a stage for bragging about futuristic bona fides — top...
China’s Ping An Saw Stock Market Capitalization Climb Whopping $101B in 2017
Jan 8 2018 // Insurance may lack the buzz and cachet enjoyed by tech companies, yet the stock of one Chinese company in the industry has kept pace handsomely with some of the highest-flying champions of the digital revolution. Ping An...
Netflix vs. HBO and the Race to the Insurance Customer
Jan 8 2018 // The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us, the chief content officer of Netflix said four years ago. In the insurance world, InsureTech Connect Conference founder Caribou Honig thinks traditional insurers and...
Top Insurtech Predictions for 2018
Jan 8 2018 // Insurtech is often framed as a force of disruption in the insurance industry. But technology doesn’t disrupt the industry – it enhances the way carriers and customers interact. In 2018, I predict we will...
Startups Selected for Inaugural InsurTech Acceleration Program in Hartford
Jan 8 2018 // Hartford InsurTech Hub, an initiative established in 2017 by Hartford, Conn.-based insurance companies, the city of Hartford and CTNext, has selected the 2018 group of 11 startups that will participate in its inaugural...
Travelers Europe Offers Enhanced Cyber Cover for UK & Ireland Tech Sector
Jan 4 2018 // Travelers Europe announced it has enhanced its offering for technology businesses in the United Kingdom and Ireland with a packaged product to provide improved protection against the unique cyber risks facing IT,...
Central Ohio Counties to Get 911 Texting Capability
Jan 2 2018 // Central Ohio residents with emergencies will soon have the option to text 911 in addition to placing a call. Local governments in Delaware and Franklin counties plan to test technology in the first three months of 2018...
Netflix vs. HBO and the Race to the Insurance Customer
Jan 2 2018 // “The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us,” the chief content officer of Netflix said four years ago. In the insurance world, InsureTech Connect Conference founder Caribou Honig thinks...
Top Insurance Journal International Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // Blockchain, cyber, mergers and acquisitions and London’s devastating Grenfell Tower fire are just some of the topics that dominate the most popular articles in Insurance Journal’s International section during...
Top Insurance Journal National Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // It wouldn’t feel right to close out the year without looking back at the most popular stories on Insurance Journal during the past 12 months. Here are the national stories that attracted the most readers in 2017,...
