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Ohio Awards $2.4M in Opioid Science Challenge
Sep 14 2018 // Ohio awarded another round of prizes totaling $2.4 million in its global technology challenge seeking scientific breakthroughs to address the U.S. opioid crisis. The dozen winners from six states and Canada were judged the...
Tech Giants, Chamber Offer Views on National Consumer Privacy Rules
Sep 14 2018 // Two technology trade groups on Wednesday released proposals for national consumer privacy regulations, adding to the chorus of businesses seeking to influence the growing momentum for stricter rules on how companies handle...
Volvo Offers Self-Driving Truck with No Cab as Way to Address Shortage of Drivers
Sep 13 2018 // Sweden’s Volvo, the world’s second-biggest truck maker, presented a new self-driving electric truck on Wednesday, which it said should help respond to the boom in e-commerce and a shortage of freight...
Industry Blockchain Initiative B3i Gets Ready to Go Live for January Renewals
Sep 12 2018 // The industry’s Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative (B3i) announced a year ago it had developed a reinsurance blockchain prototype for a property excess-of-loss (XOL) contract and asked the industry to help test...
EU Lawmakers Agree on Internet Copyright Reforms in Blow to Tech Giants
Sep 12 2018 // Tech platforms and internet activists protested the outcome of a European Parliament vote Wednesday to back copyright rules that would help video, music and other rights holders seek compensation for use of their content...
Vindati Platform Looks to ‘Delight’ Brokers Serving Small-Medium Businesses
Sep 12 2018 // There will soon be a new specialty insurance site that promises to quicken and simplify transactions for U.S. insurance brokers who are serving small and medium sized businesses. Vindati, a New York-based managing general...
GC Genesis, Guy Carpenter’s Insurer-Insurtech Matchmaker, Aims to Prevent Bad Relationships
Sep 11 2018 // Insurtech is often touted as the cure that will solve the insurance industry’s inefficient and antiquated processes – from distribution, to underwriting, to claims. While many insurers want to investigate the...
Munich Re Acquires Tech Firm Relayr, an Industrial Internet of Things Specialist
Sep 4 2018 // Munich Re announced it is taking a further key step to create new business models in industrial Internet of Things (IoT) through the acquisition of the software company “relayr” via Munich Re’s...
15 Emerging Risks Worth Watching That Are Not Cyber
Sep 3 2018 // When insurance experts are asked what they see as the most important emerging risk for the property/casualty insurance industry, their consensus is cyber in some form. While cyber obviously poses tremendous risks, some...
5 Ways to Put Customers First and Ice the Cake with Insurtech
Sep 3 2018 // I was surprised to learn I was named one of the 50 most influential people in the United States/Western Europe for Insurtech. The fact that I was the only person, I believe, listed who makes their living on their own name...
Zurich Insurance Begins Competition to Find Cutting-Edge InsurTech Startups
Aug 31 2018 // Zurich Insurance Group believes a competition will help it find cutting-edge startups and entrepreneurs with whom to collaborate in the insurtech space. The Swiss insurer launched what it is calling the Zurich Innovation...
1-in-5 Consumers Say They’d Use Amazon or Google for Home Insurance
Aug 28 2018 // One-in-five consumers say they would use Amazon or Google for their home insurance, a J.D. Power survey released today shows. And most of those who took the survey (80 percent) already have insurance with a large national...
New World of Digital Recruiting: Chatbots, Videos and Social Media
Aug 23 2018 // Long gone are the days when employees printed their resumes and cover letters on fancy paper, worried about choosing the proper font, and put both documents in the mail. The idea of employers printing paper job...
How, Why and Where Insurance Agencies Should Use Data Analytics
Aug 22 2018 // As the data insurance agencies and brokerages continues to grow, agency managers are faced with having to answer how, why and where they can successfully analyze and use all of this data. The answer to the...
Insurance Premiums from Insurtech to Exceed $400 Billion by 2023: Study
Aug 22 2018 // Insurance premiums generated by emerging insurtech services will exceed $400 billion by 2023, up from an estimated $187 billion in 2018, according to a new study from U.K.-based Juniper Research. The study found that while...
California Commissioner OKs State’s First Insurtech Title Insurer
Aug 21 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved a license for States Title, the first insurtech title insurer licensed and domiciled in California. States Title Insurance Company of California will use...
11 Ways to Balance Technology with Personal Touch to Engage Customers
Aug 21 2018 // Technology does a lot but it can’t do everything. Sometimes insurance agents and other business people forget that. They become so dependent on email and social media that they lose sight of what people really need...
Extreme Weather Risk Grows as Warming Earth Disrupts High-Altitude Winds: Study
Aug 21 2018 // Scorching summer heatwaves and downpours are set to become more extreme in the northern hemisphere as global warming makes weather patterns linger longer in the same place, scientists said on Monday. They said there was a...
China’s Online Insurer ZhongAn to Get Investment from SoftBank for Overseas Growth
Aug 20 2018 // ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co. Ltd., the first internet-only insurer in China, announced its subsidiary ZhongAn International will receive a strategic investment from SoftBank Vision Fund, which will support the...
Millennials in Insurance Talk Age and Tech Gaps, Insurance Being a ‘Well-Kept Secret’
Aug 20 2018 // What is the best part about working in insurance? For a group of millennials speaking with Insurance Journal at a July roundtable, the answer was simple. “The people,” roundtable participants agreed. At the...
