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Travelers Joins MIT Research Groups Focused on Autonomous Transportation
Oct 10 2019 // The Travelers Companies has joined the Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE), organizations working to advance...
Replacing Car Mirrors With High-Tech Cameras May be Closer Than It Appears
Oct 10 2019 // Drivers in the U.S. may one day no longer have to crane their necks to check their blind spots if regulators agree to let high-tech cameras and screens replace the humble side-view mirror. The National Highway Traffic...
Super Typhoon Hagibis on Track to Hit Japan, Disrupting Rugby World Cup
Oct 10 2019 // Two Rugby World Cup games pitting England against France and New Zealand against Italy have been called off as the powerful Typhoon Hagibis approaches Japan this weekend, organizers confirmed. The decision means both...
Florida Governor Appoints 8 to Cybersecurity Task Force
Oct 9 2019 // Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has appointed eight individuals to Florida Cybersecurity Task Force, according to a statement from the governor’s office. The Florida Cybersecurity Task Force is tasked with reviewing...
How Cyber Insurance Supports the Fight AGAINST Ransomware: Marsh
Oct 9 2019 // As the cyber insurance market continues to grow, it’s only natural to discuss its place in the battle against cyber-attacks, including ransomware, which has been a prevalent topic in recent months. Over the last...
How The Hanover Is Investing in Digital Tools for Agents, Customers
Oct 8 2019 // As insurers embrace insurtech in multiple ways, The Hanover Insurance Group’s Richard Lavey offers some advice: Not everything works as initially envisioned, and that’s OK. “‘If you build it, they...
Insurtech FRISS and Munich Re Extend Partnership to Support Insurers Fighting Fraud
Oct 8 2019 // FRISS, the insurtech provider of AI-powered anti-fraud solutions for the P&C insurance industry, has extended its partnership with Munich Re to now support insurers in their fight against fraud. Following their...
How Drones Are Digitally Transforming Insurance Claims Inspections and Workflows
Oct 7 2019 // Somewhere in central Michigan, a pickup truck drives into a sleepy suburban neighborhood. An autonomous drone takes flight off the truck’s flatbed and, nearly silently, heads a half-mile east, slowing above a...
Munich Re Backs Small Business Insurtech Next Insurance with $250 Million
Oct 7 2019 // Insurtech Next Insurance has pulled in a $250 million financing round from a single investor: Munich Re. Palo Alto-based Next said it plans to use the Series C cash infusion to scale up its small business insurance...
InsureTech Connect: The Insurance Industry Needs to Understand What Business It’s In
Oct 7 2019 // People who buy gasoline generally don’t care for the product or enjoy the experience of pumping gas: They just want to drive. Chris Colborn, chief experience officer for the Lippincott creative consulting firm,...
Insurers, Tech Firms Scramble to Keep Up With Cyber Risks
Oct 4 2019 // Despite progress, carriers are still falling short in how they approach cyber insurance and also how they cover events when they happen. How can this be? The unique makeup of cyber risks continues to hold them back,...
Global Insurance Accelerator Boosts Its Funding for Insurtech Startups
Oct 3 2019 // The Iowa-based Global Insurance Accelerator will nearly double its seed funding for insurtechs accepted into the program in 2020. Nicole Gunderson, managing director for the GIA, said the increase is a way for the GIA,...
How the Future of Insurtech Innovation Is Tied to the Traditions of Regulation
Oct 3 2019 // It’s no secret: Innovators and regulators often clash. But both are needed to help enable a dynamic, consumer-friendly property/casualty industry in the future, insurance and insurtech experts said...
Watch Out Insurtechs: Nationwide Readies Own Digital Auto Insurance Platform
Oct 1 2019 // Nationwide plans on striking hard against digital insurer upstart competitors with the debut of Spire, a digital auto insurance platform with an eye on millennial customers. Spire, which will be rolled out in the 2019...
InsureTech Connect: Insurance Industry Needs to Understand What Business It’s In
Sep 26 2019 // LAS VEGAS — People who buy gasoline generally don’t care for the product or enjoy the experience of pumping gas: They just want to drive. Chris Colborn, chief experience officer for the Lippincott creative...
Rethinking the Limits of Parametric Insurance
Sep 24 2019 // It’s time to rethink the limits of parametric insurance. The concept behind parametric insurance is not new. Insurance payouts automatically triggered by an event exceeding an index level have existed for decades....
Liberty Company in California Names Caswell Director of Information Technology
Sep 23 2019 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Roy Caswell executive vice president and director of information technology. Caswell started in the insurance industry in 1992 working at American...
Typhoon Tapah Disrupts Hundreds of Domestic Flights in Japan and South Korea
Sep 23 2019 // Hundreds of domestic flights in Japan were canceled because of Typhoon Tapah, and the storm caused similar disruptions in South Korea as it moved to make landfall later Sunday. Airlines operating in Japan called off more...
Commercial Lines Insurtech Bold Penguin Raises $32 Million in Latest Round
Sep 23 2019 // Bold Penguin, a Columbus Ohio commercial insurance technology provider, said it has completed a $32 million Series B funding round, bringing the total capital it has raised to more than $50 million since it started in...
The Lowdown: Reimagining Research to Recognize Emerging Insurance Industry Trends
Sep 19 2019 // The Society of Insurance Research (SIR) will hold their 49th Annual Conference on October 20th – 22nd at the Sheraton Charlotte Hotel in Charlotte, NC and I am thrilled to be attending. The theme for this year’s...
