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A Look Back at Carrier Management’s Top Features of 2017
For Carrier Management's most popular features of 2017, one thing is clear: Our readers, confronted with major technological changes in the property/casualty industry, are trying to figure out what ...
The Institutes Completes Blockchain Proof-of-Auto-Insurance Product; Nationwide to Test
The Institutes' work with insurers in the blockchain space has led to a debut product – a tool designed to establish proof of auto insurance. Nationwide is the first carrier to bring it to ...
Lemonade Secures $120M in New Financing to Fuel Global Expansion
Digital insurer Lemonade Inc. announced a $120 million Series C funding round it will use to help accelerate a global expansion in 2018. SoftBank Group led the round, joined by existing investors ...
Teach Your Workforce to Adopt a Hacker Mindset
"The best way to train employees to defend against hackers is to teach them how to think like one," says HackerOne CEO Marten Mickos in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Mickos notes the ...
InsurTech Acceleration Program in Hartford Chooses Startups for Inaugural Effort
Hartford InsurTech Hub, an initiative established in 2017 by Hartford, Conn.-based insurance companies, the city of Hartford and CTNext, has selected the 2018 group of 11 startups that will ...
AXA Will Provide Insurance for Uber Eats Couriers in Europe
Uber's food-delivery business will begin offering an insurance package to its couriers in Europe, a move to address the conditions of "gig economy" workers. Riders for food-delivery companies such as ...
Digital Insurer Lemonade: License Not Needed by Those Who Adopt Its API Sales Platform
Digital insurer Lemonade says companies that integrate its insurance sales platform, or API, into their own apps and web sites "generally speaking do not have to be licensed as insurance agents or ...
Netflix vs. HBO and the Race to the Insurance Customer
"The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us," the chief content officer of Netflix said four years ago. In the insurance world, InsureTech Connect Conference Founder Caribou Honig thinks ...