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Kemper P/C Group Head Exits After Division’s Q4 Operating Loss
Kemper Corp.'s Denise I. Lynch is leaving her position as Property/Casualty group executive, effective immediately, to pursue other opportunities, the insurer said. The news comes after Kemper ...
The Zebra, Another Insurance ‘Disruptor,’ Attracts $17M in Funding
The Zebra, an online auto insurance comparison company, said it has closed $17 million in Series A funding with investment from Mark Cuban, Mike Maples Jr. (of Twitter and Lyft), Simon Nixon (of ...
Crash Rates Lower for Driverless Cars
Crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars, according to a new report out of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute that was commissioned by ...
P2P Insurance Startup Lemonade Attracts Sagalow, Other AIG, ACE Vets to Exec Roster
An instech startup looking to disrupt the property/casualty insurance industry with a new business model has turned to four seasoned insurance executives from traditional carriers AIG and ACE ...
Peer-to-Peer Insurance Startup Attracts Funding from Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital, a California venture firm better known for funding technology or industry game-changers including Apple, Cisco and YouTube, has put its money behind a property/casualty insurance ...
ACORD’s Hartnett Discusses the Future of Industry Standards, Disruption and the Internet of Things
In a recent, wide-ranging conversation with Wells Media Group's Andy Simpson, Bill Hartnett, ACORD's first innovation chief, talked about innovation culture and the power of failure, lessons he ...
A Conversation on Innovation and the Industry’s Future With ACORD’s Hartnett
There are not many insurance executives who will quote inventor Thomas Edison, Microsoft's Steve Baumer, futurist Alvin Toffler, Moore's Law, and philosophers Aristotle and Plato. There are also not ...
ACORD’s First Innovation Chief Talks About the Importance of Culture
There are not many people in the insurance business who can flash business cards with the title "head of innovation." Bill Hartnett, a former executive in the insurance division at Microsoft, was ...