Leadership & Strategy
Data Science Startup DataCubes Is Ramping Up Carrier Partnerships
InsurTech DataCubes raised its first funding round of $2.5 million just under two years ago and continues on a growth trajectory today. (Hint: more fundraising is planned in the near future.) The ...
The Coming Talent War Over Millennials and Their Transformational Skills
By as early as 2025, as much as 75 percent of the global workforce could be millennials, and they will bring a whole new set of demands and expectations to the modern workplace. Importantly, they ...
Why a framework to build agents is necessary, but not the same thing as AI doing insurance work. Almost every...
InsurTech Product News: A Carrier Partnership and Workflow Management Pilot Project
The Hartford is working with Cape Analytics to apply artificial intelligence to its property insurance quote and renewal process. An InsurTech focused on streamlining workflows for independent ...
Cheating Spouses More Likely to Pursue Workplace Misconduct: Study
People who cheat on their spouses are a lot more likely to engage in misconduct in the workplace, according to a new academic study. The researchers looked at the records of police officers, ...
Companies Can Attract Millennials by Helping Repay Their Student Debt
Like millions of her peers, Nicole Read graduated with thousands of dollars of debt. Unlike most of them, she's getting direct help from her employer to pay it back. The 26-year-old's job at event ...
AIG CEO Duperreault ‘Encouraged’ by Hardening Market, Talks Operational Overhaul
AIG President and CEO Brian Duperreault said that the evolving, hardening market is sustainable and dovetailing nicely with the insurer's ongoing efforts to shed excessively risky business. "We are ...
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 ...