Articles by Lirpa Loof

Loof is a veteran journalist and occasional contributor to Insurance Journal on April Fools' Day.

Three Tales of Troubled Insurance Relationships

Three insurance relationship tales from today’s newswire. Woman Sues Insurtech Over Broken Heart Thrice-divorced Natalie Galumpkin says she knows a bad experience when she has one and her experience buying home insurance through the HipHome app was one of the …

Insurer Introduces Revolutionary 3-Word Personal Insurance Policy

APRIL 1, 2019 β€” An insurance company that says it wants to simplify insurance has whittled its personal insurance policies for families down to three words. The new product, named TriWord, bundles property and casualty coverages for auto, home and …

Insurtechs Continue to Perform Miracles for Policyholders

APRIL 1, 2018β€” The competition among insurtechs trying to make their insurance customers “deliriously happy” continues to evolve with the latest news that one insurer is paying claims before they even happen. New York-based BlackRaspberrySoda said it has paid out …

April 1st Wrap-Up: Trump Forms Insurer; Epstein to AIG; Minute-by-Minute Insurance

Here is latest insurance industry real fake news on this April 1st: Trump, Cabinet to Launch MAGA Health Insurance Company President Donald J. Trump announced today that he, his family and his Cabinet of billionaires are personally bankrolling MAGA Health …

First Robot-Run Insurance Agency Opens for Business

Goodbye agency principals, producers and customer service reps, hello Roberto Siber, CPCU. Siber is the buff, blue-eyed and bald principal of the Buyonic Insurance Agency in Austin, Texas. This insurance android is more evidence that the future of mechanized businesses …

‘Insurance: The Musical’ Opens on Broadway

Broadway is taking a riskβ€”on a musical about insurance. “Insurance: The Musical” opens this week in New York after a successful tryout last September in Hartford. It is Broadway’s first musical exploration of the property/casualty insurance industry, according to Broadway …