Leadership & Strategy
Insurers Pressured by Activist Groups to Drop Coverage of Oil Sands Pipeline
A coalition of 32 environmental and indigenous groups on Thursday urged insurers to stop underwriting the Trans Mountain pipeline to pressure Canada to cancel its plan to expand the project which ...
Mobile Sales Assistant Vymo Raises $19M; AXA, Allianz Among Customers
Vymo, a technology company whose mobile app captures and automates data for insurance sales reps and others on the go, has raised $18 million in new financing. The India-based SaaS (software as a ...
Root Insurance Enters California Market, Where Telematics Underwriting Tool Doesn’t Apply
Root Insurance, an auto insurance startup that does business via smartphone, has entered the California market. But there's a catch. Root's app uses smartphone technology, telematics and data science ...
Updated: AIG’s General Insurance Unit Turns a Profit for the Second Quarter in a Row
American International Group (AIG) President and CEO Brian Duperreault has insisted that the insurer's General Insurance unit will produce an underwriting profit for all of 2019, after a decade of ...
The Latest Launches From Munich Re and Willis Towers Watson
Munich Re is now marketing new hurricane response tools designed to better help carriers assess widespread damage after a hurricane. Willis Towers Watson released an updated version of its Radar ...
Massachusetts-Based Cybersecurity Company Raises $200M to Fuel Global Expansion
Antivirus startup Cybereason said on Tuesday it raised $200 million in investment from Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, doubling the total investments raised by the company so far to about $400 million. ...
Stalled Self-Driving Car Legislation May Still Have Some Life
Two key committees in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday said they will revive efforts to pass long-stalled legislation to speed the adoption of self-driving cars. The House Energy and Commerce Committee ...
Planck Making Strides With Disruption
Elad Tsur, co-founder and CEO of Planck, (previously known as Planck Re), has had a busy year with an eye on disruption. Planck, based in Israel with offices in New York, launched in 2016 hoping to ...