Innovation
Former Liberty Actuary Talks ‘Openly’ About Launching Upmarket HO Insurer
Keep an eye out for Openly, a new digitally-sophisticated upmarket homeowners insurer catering to independent agents. According to Ty Harris, founder and CEO, Openly will launch in early 2019 in a ...
GM Hits Speed Bumps on $5B Road to Driverless Cars by 2019: Reuters
It's one of the biggest bets going in the world of cars. Since May, General Motors Co. and its Cruise self-driving car unit have landed $5 billion in investment commitments from Japan's SoftBank ...
Startup vs. Incumbent: The Battle Rages as InsurTechs Grow Fast But Fail to Show Profits
How far will they climb? How far can they fall? Will innovative InsurTech startups rocket past established players? Those may be some of the unspoken questions beneath a series of articles written by ...
The Value of Innovation: A Preview of CM’s Nov/Dec Magazine
"You don't have to be the CEO and get invited to deliver keynote speeches in order to influence the way an industry thinks." Adrian Jones, deputy CEO of SCOR P&C Partners and one of the guest ...
Changing the Conversation About InsurTech—With Numbers
Although the term InsurTech (or insuretech) has been part of the property/casualty insurance industry's lexicon for at least two years, stories about the technology-based insurance startups were ...
The Latest Launches From AXA XL, Munich Re America and Marsh
AXA XL's primary cyber and technology insurance clients can now get complimentary proactive services meant to help promote resiliency before cyber attacks. Munich Re America has begun marketing a ...
The Latest Launches From AIR Worldwide and London Market Group
AIR Worldwide said it has come up with a new cyber risk model that can account for specific incidents for global insurance portfolios. The London Market Group (LMG) will work with Sequel to develop a ...
InsurTech Startups Click2Sure, Jooycar, Attract New Financing
Greenlight Capital Re has invested in another startup, this time a digital insurance platform launched in South Africa. Miami-based private equity firm HCS Capital Partners said it has committed ...