Insurance Tries to Keep Up with Sharing Economy February 4, 2019 By Andrea Wells As more and more consumers click for services and borrow rather than buy, the sharing economy is benefitting. According to...
Rideshare Drivers Flocking to On-Demand Economy, Poll Shows March 16, 2018 By Don Jergler First there was the sharing economy, and then the gig economy. Now the buzz phrase to pay attention to may...
UK Uber Drivers’ Court Victory Over Pay Could Rejigger Gig Economy October 31, 2016 By Jeremy Hodges and Jeremy Kahn Uber Technologies Inc. lost a lawsuit over pay and vacation time for U.K. drivers at the car-sharing service in a...
10 Takeaways from the Future of Insurance and InsureTech Connect Conference October 17, 2016 By Andrew G. Simpson You’ve probably heard. There is tremendous investor interest right now in technology-first insurance startups, or insurtech firms. The first InsureTech...
As On-Demand Economy Grows, Professor Sees New Kind of Capitalism Emerging June 16, 2016 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion It goes by many names: the “sharing economy,” the “gig economy,” the “on-demand economy.” Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New...
Allstate Debuts Insurance Coverage for Homeowners Sharing Their Homes May 25, 2016 In a move to serve customers who rent out their homes on a temporary basis, Allstate has filed plans to...
Labor Unions Searching for Strategies to Join the Gig Economy May 24, 2016 By Dan Levine and Daniel Wiessner The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers trumpeted an agreement reached earlier this month to represent New York Uber...
Startup Slice, Offering Insurance for On-Demand Workers, Raises $3.9M March 29, 2016 By Andrew G. Simpson Slice Labs Inc., an instech startup set to launch an on-demand platform to sell insurance to participants in the on-demand...
Few Rideshare Drivers Have Insurance, But Interest is Growing February 29, 2016 By Don Jergler A large portion of rideshare drivers do not have the required insurance – but more are buying it, or seem...
Gig Economy Now 6.5% of U.S. Workforce; Provides Extra Income for 10 Million February 22, 2016 By Tatiana Darie It’s a job market revolution: an estimated 10.3 million Americans earned income through web-based platforms like Uber and Airbnb between...