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American Drivers Increasingly Fearful of Self-Driving Vehicles: AAA Study
Three-quarters (73 percent) of American drivers now say they would be too afraid to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle, up significantly from 63 percent in late 2017. Additionally, 63 percent of ...
Root Plans Bigger Columbus, Ohio HQ, Plus Many New Hires to Fuel National Expansion
Root disclosed plans to grow its workforce over the next three years by about 500 percent and also move to a new, significantly expanded headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. The auto insurance startup, ...
Telematics Tech Coming Into Its Own With Commercial Auto Insurers
Though adopted early by personal lines insurers, telematics technology is just coming into its own in the commercial auto space. According to Zach Schmiesing, director, Commercial Lines, ...
NAMIC Urges Autonomous Driving System Developers to Focus on Safety, Data Sharing
While automated driving systems hold great promise to save lives and reduce crashes, the focus must remain on validating the safety of the technology every step of the way, according to the National ...
Lemonade Debuting an Open Source Insurance Policy All Can Help Shape
Lemonade Inc. has come out with an open source insurance policy that rivals can use and all have the capacity to shape, something it touts as a first within the industry. Dubbed Policy 2.0, the ...
MGA Boost Insurance Secures Reinsurance Facility to Back Its InsurTech Development Platform
Boost Insurance has nailed down a dedicated reinsurance facility to help support its B2B InsurTech development platform. Nephila is leading the facility with participation from Markel Digital, the ...
Executives On The Move at Ironshore and RMS
Ironshore promoted from within for the new head of its healthcare professional liability unit. Catastrophe modeler RMS appointed a veteran from the software industry to run its own software/platform ...
Lloyd’s CEO Beale Urges Regulators: ‘Try and Keep Up’ With Technology Innovations
As insurers try to innovate and address the rapidly changing needs of their clients, Lloyd's of London CEO Inga Beale has a message for regulators who oversee them: "Try and keep up." Beale, speaking ...