Markets/Coverages: Liberty Specialty Markets, Baobab Offer E-Crime Cover for SMEs March 11, 2025 Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of the US Liberty Mutual Group, and Baobab Insurance, a digital underwriter of technical...
Hannover Re Combines Cyber, Digital Underwriting Expertise in New Reinsurance Unit March 26, 2024 Hannover Re will combine its global business in the areas of cyber and digital, creating a new specialty reinsurance business...
2022 Holds Promise for Insurance Agents and Digital Carriers December 20, 2021 Technology will continue to influence changes in insurance markets in 2022, especially among agents and digital carriers. So say the...
Regulation, Technology Know-How Are Delaying Embedded Insurance’s Full Potential October 20, 2021 By Mark Hollmer Embedded insurance has made substantial gains in 2021, but the technology faces regulatory and other roadblocks that could postpone its...
$245M Insurtech Funding Wrap-Up: Corvus, AgentSync, Cowbell Cyber, WeLab, Hi Marley March 12, 2021 Some serious money has been sent the way of various insurance startups over the past week. Investors backed cutting-edge commercial...
New Unicorn Wealthsimple Plans Insurance, Mortgage Products Buildout Before IPO October 16, 2020 By Kevin Orland Fresh off achieving a $1 billion valuation, Wealthsimple Inc.’s top executive says the firm has more work to do before...
Progressive Integrates Home Insurance Quoting Into Mortgage Lending Program October 12, 2020 Progressive Insurance is serving home buyers in the digital mortgage process and using information they’ve already entered for their loans...
Next Insurance Attracts $250M in New Financing; Its $631M to Date Beats Lemonade September 24, 2020 By Mark Hollmer Next Insurance secured another $250 million in financing designed to fuel continued national expansion of its digital small business insurance...
Do Auto Insureds Prefer Insurer Websites Over Agents? J.D. Power Thinks So. June 11, 2020 Remember all the talk that digital transformation would disrupt the auto insurance industry? Well, it’s real, according to the consultants...
Pandemic Stay-at-Home Experience Raises P/C Insurers’ Bar for Delivering Digitally June 2, 2020 Significant investments in direct-to-consumer website and mobile design have helped property/casualty insurance companies improve their digital service and shopping experiences....