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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 ...
A Language Lesson for P/C Insurers
InsurTech leaders speaking at the InsureTech Connect Conference in October had a message for traditional insurers they have probably heard before: The language that insurance agents and carriers use ...
Ganging Up on Blockchain and Other Hyped Tech Concepts
What is the most hyped InsurTech concept? At the 2017 InsureTech Connect Conference, the favorite answer seemed to be blockchain, although Munich Re Digital Partners CEO Andy Rear was hesitant to ...
Top 10 Takeaways from InsureTech Connect 2017 Conference
More than 3,800 insurance and technology enthusiasts gathered at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in October for the second annual InsureTech Connect Conference. In addition to insurance executives, the ...
The Latest Launches From Octo Telematics, BOLT and Lockton
Octo Telematics is expanding how auto insurance customers can buy its telematics tech. BOLT Solutions, Inc. teamed up with LexisNexis Risk Solutions to simplify how insurance can be purchased. ...
Embracing the Future of Catastrophe Modeling
This year, 2017, marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of catastrophe modeling. Back in 1987, after a few quiet decades of natural catastrophes in the United States, the idea of ...
France’s Atos Boosts Cyber Security Services With $5.06B Gemalto Buy
French technology consulting firm Atos offered to buy Gemalto for 4.3 billion euros ($5.06 billion) on Monday to boost its cyber security services as states and big corporations seek to cope with a ...