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MGA Startups During COVID Helped Accelerate Digitization: InsurTech Forum Preview
One of the more intriguing InsurTech trends over the last year has been an accelerated push by MGA startups to make insurance easier for consumers in a variety of ways. COVID-19 propelled that ...
Insurance, Tech Stocks Outpace InsurTechs in 2021: New HSCM Index
Stock prices of 18 U.S. InsurTechs that went public in the last decade soared as a group in 2020. But so far in 2021, large non-insurance technology companies and traditional insurance stocks both ...
Seeing Is Believing: The Use of Augmented Reality in Society and Insurance
While augmented reality (AR) has been around for a few decades, the technology to power its widespread use is still fairly recent. What once required a huge mechanical system that had to be mounted ...
Insurity Completes Acquisition of Cloud Software Maker Instec
Property/casualty insurance software firm Insurity has completed its acquisition of Instec, a cloud software maker for mid-size property/casualty carriers, managing general agencies and specialty ...
Majority of Insurers Plan to Up Their Digital Transformation Spend in 2021
2021 is set to be a year that no one forgets, with COVID-19 forcing disruption on every business, industry and person on the planet. The insurance industry received one of the most significant blows ...
Remember the Browser Wars? Surety Carriers Are in Platform Wars
In the early days of the Internet in the late 1990s, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and other Internet browsers tried to grab market share in an emerging market. The choice of a ...
The Latest Launches From Berkley One, Openly and AXA XL
W.R. Berkley Corp.'s Berkley One expanded into Maryland and broadened its product offerings in other states where it does business. Openly, an InsurTech MGA focused on high-end homeowners insurance, ...
InsurTech Archipelago Pulls in $34M for AI Risk Platform Expansion
Archipelago raised $34 million in new financing from multiple investors, with plans to use the money for further expansion of its operations and technology – a risk data platform with artificial ...