Underwriting
Cape Analytics Rolls Out Geospatial Portfolio Monitoring Products
Cape Analytics is launching what it bills as the insurance industry's first geospatial portfolio monitoring products. They're intended to work together. Change Detection is designed to alert carriers ...
Lloyd’s of London Releases Blueprint to Create Super-Advanced Marketplace
Lloyd's of London has unveiled a blueprint for action to facilitate its Future at Lloyd's project, which aims to "build the most advanced insurance marketplace in the world." This first blueprint, ...
Nationwide Eyes Q4 Rollout for Spire, a Digital Auto Insurance Platform
Nationwide is striking hard against digital insurer upstart competitors with the debut of Spire, a digital auto insurance platform with an eye on millennial customers. Spire rolls out in the 2019 ...
Rethinking the Limits of Parametric Insurance
It's time to rethink the limits of parametric insurance. The concept behind parametric insurance is not new. Insurance payouts automatically triggered by an event exceeding an index level have ...
Executives On The Move at AmTrust and BHSI
AmTrust Financial Service's E&S unit launched its new excess casualty underwriting division and has hired a former Everest Reinsurance Division to lead it. An ex-RSA executive will lead Bershire ...
Munich Re, AAIS Partner to Develop Private Flood Insurance Incentives
Munich Re said it will work with an insurance industry non-profit to help close the flood insurance gap in the U.S. and creative potential incentives for a private market. The global reinsurer's ...
Collapse of Thomas Cook Leads to Massive Tourist Airlift
The U.K. government deployed the "largest repatriation in peacetime history" to bring home more than 150,000 tourists stranded on overseas beaches and in vacation hotspots by the collapse of tour ...
Bold Penguin Touts Expansion of Agent-Friendly Commercial Insurance Digital Storefront Tech
Bold Penguin, an InsurTech startup and commercial insurance technology provider, said it has expanded access to its portal that helps users triage, quote and bind commercial insurance. The company's ...