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Insurtech ‘Babel Cover’ Collaborates with Maltese Insurer Atlas to Offer Bicycle Insurance
Apr 22 2020 // Babel Cover, a British insurtech start-up, is working with Maltese insurer Atlas and emerging technology firm Piprate to insure bicycles of competitive cyclists, triathletes and commuters of Malta. The intention of the...
Pandemic Crisis Story: Moving 1000-Plus Employees in 7 Countries in Just 2 Weeks
Apr 20 2020 // Amit Tiwari, chief operating officer at Xceedance, the Boston-based insurance consulting, managed services, and insurtech company, explains the challenges of enabling business continuity plans in the face of a global...
New E-Book, Online Guide Aims to Help Insurance Agencies Deal with Disruptions
Apr 20 2020 // A new e-book and online resource guide created by a trio of insurance agency executives, including Tony Caldwell, CEO of the Oklahoma-based agency network One Agents Alliance, aims to provide independent insurance agents...
Europe Needs Its Own Approach to Coronavirus Tracing, Say German Tech Startups
Apr 15 2020 // Europe should not cede its sovereignty to Silicon Valley when it comes to using technology to help trace those at risk of coronavirus infection, the German developers of a smartphone app said on Tuesday. Apple and Google...
Lloyd’s Picks 12 Insurtech Startups for Next Cohort of Its Innovation Lab
Apr 9 2020 // Lloyd’s has selected 12 insurtech startups to participate in its innovation accelerator, Lloyd’s Lab. The 12 teams were chosen out of more than 190 applications, received from across the world, for the fourth...
BHSI Launches Professional Technology Liability Cover in Australia, New Zealand
Apr 6 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that it has launched Professional First Technology Liability Insurance policies in Australia and New Zealand. Both policies offer broad, customizable professional...
Tech Issues Hampered Information on Tsunami Watch for Hawaii
Apr 6 2020 // Technical issues made it difficult to get information about a tsunami watch for Hawaii and its subsequent cancellation, the National Weather Service said. The brief tsunami watch was canceled in late March after a 7.5...
Washington Governor Signs Facial Recognition Law Curbing Use
Apr 1 2020 // Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed the first U.S. state law that sharply curbs law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology, while civil rights activists said the measure did not go far enough to protect...
Reavis Named Chief People Officer at Ohio Insurtech Root
Mar 30 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Root Inc., the parent company of online insurer Root Insurance, has appointed Annette Reavis as its first chief people officer. Reavis has more than 20 years of human resource and business experience....
Tech Issues Hampered Information on Tsunami Watch for Hawaii
Mar 27 2020 // Technical issues made it difficult to get information about a tsunami watch for Hawaii and its subsequent cancellation, the National Weather Service said Wednesday. The brief tsunami watch was canceled Tuesday after a 7.5...
Ohio Commercial Insurance Insurtech, Coterie, Raises $8.5M in Financing
Mar 25 2020 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based insurtech Coterie, which specializes in commercial insurance, has closed an oversubscribed Series A financing round totaling $8.5 million from RPM Ventures, Allos Ventures, and others. The company...
Safe Drive Systems Radar Collision Avoidance Technology is Implemented in a Pilot Conducted with Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies
Mar 20 2020 // New York, NY, March 20, 2020 − Safe Drive Systems (SDS), a leading developer and distributor of aftermarket advanced auto safety technologies, and its partner, Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies, have announced...
RMS CEO White: Embracing Change in a Transforming Industry
Mar 19 2020 // During her career, Karen White, the CEO of RMS, has had a front-row seat to observe what happens with companies and industries in transformation and how enormous value—and disruption—can be created. While some people...
P/C Insurers Score Low for Innovation, While Reinsurers Do Better: AM Best
Mar 18 2020 // In an initial test of its new innovation assessment scores, AM Best found that only 1 percent of rated property/casualty insurers merit scores high enough to categorize them as innovation leaders, according to a recent...
Report: Testers in California Logged 2.8M Autonomous Miles Last Year
Mar 17 2020 // Each year technology’s promise of having autonomous vehicles ruling the roads seems to be a bit more fleeting, or at least a bit further off, but that hasn’t stalled the efforts of would-be makers of...
Cattle Ranchers Worry Despite Having Tech to Track Diseases
Mar 17 2020 // Before June 2018, finding cattle that were potentially exposed to diseases was time-consuming and complicated, requiring a patchwork of information from auction houses, feedlots, producers and meatpacking...
Watch Out for Virus-Tied Cyber Attacks on Remote Workers, Warns Tech Professor
Mar 17 2020 // The heightened fear and anxiety that COVID-19 is causing people worldwide brings vulnerable targets for cyber hackers. “We are living in a heightened time of cyber risk. Cyber criminals will take advantage of public...
Insurtech INSTANDA Raises $19.5M to Support International Expansion
Mar 10 2020 // INSTANDA, the London-based customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, has completed a $19.5 million Series A fundraising round, the company announced. Led by Assembly Capital Partners, the...
Acadia Insurance Hires Former New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Elias
Mar 9 2020 // Acadia Insurance, a regional underwriter based in Westbrook, Maine, has hired former New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner John Elias to its management team as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer. He will...
Lemonade Starts Fund to Encourage Socially Positive Use of AI, Data and Technology
Mar 5 2020 // Digital insurer Lemonade has established a nonprofit foundation designed to promote the use of AI, data and software to build socially positive products and programs globally. Dubbed The Lemonade Foundation, the...
