Insurtech startup owl.co Labs Inc. raised $30 million in new venture capital. Many plans are in play to spend the cash infusion, including hiring, and accelerated growth plans for the company’s machine learning-focused insurance claims monitoring platform. “By leveraging machine …
AgentSync has acquired Finvera, a cloud identity passport for licensed brokers in San Francisco, Calif. Cameron Nordholm, founder of Finvera, joins the AgentSync team as head of product. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Finvera’s technology complements AgentSync’s licensing …
Howden, the international insurance broker, announces the launch of operations in New Zealand with Howden Broking and Howden Care — its local workplace claims management, rehabilitation and wellness business. The launch reinforces Howden’s ambitious growth plans in the region since …
GLASGOW – As climate change triggers deadly heatwaves, droughts and floods, three U.N. agencies on Wednesday rolled out funding plans to improve weather forecasting in vulnerable countries. The initiative, announced at the U.N. climate summit, aims to plug gaps in …
GLASGOW – Government representatives at the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow on Thursday will turn their focus to tackling the global economy’s addiction to fossil fuels with a raft of new pledges aimed at curbing production and use of oil, …
Officials are investigating the death of a worker injured in a crane accident at a Norfolk, Nebraska manufacturing plant over the weekend. Sheriff’s deputies and paramedics were called to the Continental Tire plant late Saturday afternoon by a 911 caller …
OTTAWA – Canadian employers are firing or putting on unpaid leave thousands of workers who refused to get COVID-19 shots, squeezing an already tight labor market and raising prospects of potentially disruptive legal challenges. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised vaccine …
A total of 31 tornadoes last month was a record-high for October in Oklahoma dating to 1950, according to the National Weather Service. The previous high for October, the fifth most active month for tornadoes, was 27 in 1998, according …
The Chicago Blackhawks held settlement talks Tuesday, Nov. 2 with an attorney for a former player who is suing the team after he accused an assistant coach of sexual assault in 2010 and the team largely ignored the allegations. The …
The United States will not be able to insure its way out of coming climate disasters, but must focus on mitigation and resiliency – along with insurer solvency — to reduce risk and exposure, insurance regulators said Wednesday. Insurance commissioners …
