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Insurance Distribution Is Evolving Into a Core System
With technology advancements and expansion racing one another in the insurance industry, it's becoming ever more evident that distribution is evolving into a core system. Insurers haven't said so in ...
Autonomous Car Makers Pursue Sharing of Risk and Investment
BMW and Daimler, the world's top luxury carmakers, have announced alliances with suppliers, talking up the virtues of having a bigger pool of engineers to develop a self-driving car. But another ...
Socure Raises $13.9M; Insurance Industry Among Buyers of Company’s Digital ID Verification Tech
Socure, a developer of digital identity verification predictive analytics technology, raised nearly $14 million in a Series B venture financing round from backers with insurance industry investment ...
From Here to Autonomy: Morality and Retirement Timeline for Auto Insurance Pros
While the media, ethicists and perhaps the public like to ponder whether a self-driving car in a crisis should be programmed to hit a group of nuns crossing the street or hit a bus full of ...
Frequency of Cyber Breach Attacks Down: RMS Report
While it may seem like more cyber breach attacks are being reported than ever before, the number of breach events in the United States has been declining over the last three years, an RMS expert said ...
Commercial Drone Startup Atlas Dynamics Raises $8M; Market Focus Includes Insurance Industry
A commercial drone startup based in Latvia with an eye, in part, on the insurance industry has raised $8 million in funding. Atlas Dynamics declined to disclose its specific investors, other than ...
Nobody Is Safe: Cyber Security Firm FireEye Says Researcher Got Hacked
Cyber security firm FireEye said on Monday one of its researchers based in Israel had several of his online accounts hacked by unknown attackers, but added the breach did not appear to involve any ...
Allianz Teams With InsurTech Startup to Debut On-Demand Drone Insurance in UK
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has partnered with InsurTech startup Flock to launch on-demand drone insurance in the UK market through a mobile app for commercial and recreational ...