Most Popular Tech Headlines This Year
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#1 Trigger Warning: Cyber Policy Wordings to Impact Coverage for Tech Outage
Jul 22 2024 // Industry stakeholders continue to try to get a grasp of the implications from last week’s massive technology outage affecting motley industries around the world, but the theme of policy language is reoccurring for a...
#2 Insurers Face Business Interruption Claims After Global Tech Outage
Jul 22 2024 // Insurers could face a raft of business interruption claims after a worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday, insurance industry experts said. A software update by global cybersecurity firm...
#3 Berkshire’s ‘Most Important’ Biz Drives Q1 Results; GEICO Still Behind on Tech
May 6 2024 // Berkshire Hathaway continued to deliver eye-popping results for its insurance and reinsurance operations during the first quarter of 2024, with underwriting profits for personal auto insurer GEICO and reinsurance...
#4 The War on Wildfires Is Going High-Tech
Dec 27 2024 // Last December, a farmer was burning dry grapevines in his vineyard in Deir Mar Moussa, a hill town a dozen miles east of Beirut known for its 18th century monastery and stands of pine forest. Usually this would be...
#5 German Insurtech Wefox to Replace CEO After Board Rejects Mubadala Sales Plan
Jun 27 2024 // Wefox Holding AG is replacing Chief Executive Officer Mark Hartigan after the German insurance tech startup’s board rejected a proposal by its largest stakeholder, Mubadala Investment Co., that he backed to sell the...
#6 Insurtechs’ Approach to Wildfire Insurance: Part I – Delos
Jan 21 2025 // While the Los Angeles wildfires inch closer toward containment, estimates of insured losses continue to creep higher. CoreLogic said the industry price tag of the Palisades and Eaton fires could land between $35 billion...
#7 New Drivers and Electric-Vehicle Tech Bring New Risks to Auto Insurance Market
Jun 21 2024 // High claim severities, persistent risky driving behavior, electric vehicles and shop-and-swap consumers are challenging auto insurers to stay profitable. The challenges will continue through the end of the year and beyond,...
#8 Insurtechs Root, Lemonade Book Q1 Net Income Losses but Each Tout Progress
May 1 2024 // Insurtech Root Inc. posted a net loss for the first quarter 2024 of $6.2 million but said it recorded operating income for the first time in the company’s history. The net income loss for the first three months of...
#9 Mubadala Proposal to Sell Insurtech Startup Wefox Opposed by Founders
Jun 14 2024 // Mubadala Investment Co. has proposed selling troubled insurance tech startup Wefox Holding AG to UK insurance broker Ardonagh Group Ltd. in a deal opposed by the German firm’s founders. The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth...
#10 Global Tech Outage Disrupts Industries, Highlights Online Risks
Jul 19 2024 // A worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday before services started coming back online after hours of disruption, highlighting the risks of a global shift towards digital, interconnected...
#11 Insurtech Root, Goosehead Partner on Tech Integration for Independent Agents
Aug 27 2024 // Root, Inc., parent company of Root Insurance Company, has partnered with personal lines insurance agency Goosehead Insurance, Inc. on a technology integration partnership they said will speed up Goosehead agents’...
#12 Travelers to Open Technology Office in Atlanta
May 1 2024 // Just as companies worldwide struggle with the office-versus-remote work question, Travelers has decided to open a 2,800-square-foot office site in Atlanta to house its artificial intelligence, data science and other...
#13 Insurtech Root Finishes 2024 With First Yearly Profit
Feb 27 2025 // Root Inc. followed up its first ever quarterly net profit in the third quarter with another in the last quarter of 2024, and finished with the first profitable year in the company’s history. The Columbus, Ohio-based...
#14 ‘Pivotal’ Q3 Sees Insurtech Root Achieves Net Income Profit for the First Time
Oct 31 2024 // For the first time in the company’s history, Root Inc. recorded a quarterly net income profit. The Columbus, Ohio-based parent company of Root Insurance founded in 2015 recorded third quarter net income of about $23...
#15 Auto Insurers Face Rising Repair Costs, EV and Tech Complexity in 2025: Report
Oct 7 2024 // Amid inflation and labor shortages, the growing impact of electric vehicles (EVs) and rising repair costs, insurers and repairers will have a bumpy road to navigate in the year ahead, according to CCC Intelligent Solutions...
#16 Insurtechs’ Approach to Wildfire Insurance: Part II – Kettle
Jan 22 2025 // While the Los Angeles wildfires inch closer toward containment, estimates of insured losses continue to creep higher. CoreLogic said the industry price tag of the Palisades and Eaton fires could land between $35 billion...
#17 WR Berkley CEO: Losses From Tech Outage Expected to Be ‘Manageable’
Jul 24 2024 // W.R. Berkley CEO W. Robert Berkley, Jr. said the company does not see last week’s global network systems outage “being a material loss to the organization.” “I would be surprised if we didn’t...
#18 3 Emerging Risks to Watch: 6G Wireless Technology, Autonomous Trucks, Kratom
Apr 21 2025 // It seemed not so long ago that many wireless carriers were in a race to 5G, touting the speed of their networks to consumers. Now, the successor to that network is in development and could bring a bounty of potential...
#19 FBI Disrupts Vast Chinese Hacking Operation That Infected Consumer Devices
Sep 23 2024 // The FBI has disrupted a group of hackers working at the direction of the Chinese government who targeted universities, government agencies and other organizations, Director Chris Wray said last week. The hacking campaign...
#20 Making Friends With the Future: Agency Tech Moving at a Faster Pace Than Ever Before
Oct 21 2024 // That used to be one of my biggest beefs as an agency owner — I have all of these pieces of tech and none of them talked to each other,” Vonda Copeland, co-owner and vice president of operations at Copeland...
