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Did You Know? Auto and Renters Risks Correlated
To Alex Timm, CEO of Root Insurance Company, the auto insurance carrier's recent move into the renters insurance market seemed like a natural extension for its customer base given that 70 percent of ...
InsurTech Investments Reach New Highs, Even as Many Startups Quietly Shut Down
InsurTech investments reached an historic high in 2019, according to a new briefing on the sector from Willis Towers Watson. But 2019 also capped a three-year period where many InsurTech startups ...
InsurTech M&A: Coalition, Xceedance and Insurity
Coalition acquired a company focused on scanning and cybersecurity. Xceedance bought an outfit centered around insurance operations and technology services. Insurity, Inc. snatched up a company that ...
Dowling Highlights Regulatory Battle Over AI Bias; Lemonade Ready
As insurers introduce artificial intelligence into pricing and claims handling activities, regulatory focus on disparate impact will grow into "one of the biggest topics of the next 10 years," a ...
AI Adoption High But Staffing an Obstacle for Carriers
Sixty-two percent of carrier professionals recently surveyed said their companies have already adopted artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives, but a high percentage of those ...
VC Funding Could Dry Up, InsurTech Exec Says
The days of VC funds and strategic investors throwing money at InsurTechs may be numbered, an InsurTech executive warned fellow startup leaders late last year during a presentation at an InsurTech ...XILO Raises Seed Funding, Hoping to Help Agents Compete With Lemonade
XILO, a San Diego-based InsurTech, announced at the end of 2020 that it has raised just over $2 million in seed financing to fuel development of an SaaS platform for insurance agents. In an indirect ...
Will Emotion AI Make Human P/C Claims Adjusters Obsolete?
Renowned machine learning researcher and New York Times bestselling author Kai-fu Lee has described the era we are living in as "the age of implementation," a time period during which artificial ...