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American Family Spinout Arturo Raises $25M to Expand AI-Driven Predictive Analytics Platform
American Family Insurance spinout Arturo pulled in $25 million in venture financing – a big boost to the company's AI-driven, property-centric predictive analytics platform. "A deeper property ...
Three Senators Want to Create Mandatory Driver Monitoring Systems
Three Democratic U.S. senators on Monday said they are introducing legislation that would require U.S. regulators to mandate installation of driver-monitoring systems to ensure motorists pay ...
Europe’s Digital Health Pass Plans Confront Data Security and Fraud Risks
As Europe races to set up a digital health pass scheme to save the holiday season from the pandemic, technical and political obstacles are showing just how big a challenge the world faces in building ...
Auto Insurance MGA Focused on Underserved Populations Raises Seed Funding
A startup managing general agency designed to give underserved populations affordable access to auto insurance has raised seed funding to help it launch an initial product. Sigo pulled in $1.5 ...
Facial Recognition Tech Should Be Banned: EU Privacy Watchdog
Facial recognition should be banned in Europe because of its "deep and non-democratic intrusion" into people's private lives, EU privacy watchdog the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said ...
Business Travelers Eager to Fly Again, With Focus on Extra Precautions: Chubb Survey
Business travelers are itching to travel again for work and life, but most remain concerned at the same time about contracting COVID-19 and favor extra precautions, according to a new global survey ...
COVID-19 Knocks U.S. Inland Marine Insurance Behind in 2020: A.M. Best
The U.S. inland marine insurance segment experienced a "significant downturn in profitability" in 2020, with its loss ratio deteriorating by nearly 16 percentage points amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Fake Coal Dumped in Front of Lloyd’s HQ in Climate Change Protest
Lloyd's of London was the focus of climate change activists on Friday, when a group called "Insurance Rebellion" used a dump truck to deposit a large pile of fake coal in front of the Lloyd's ...