Strategy
Insurers, Reinsurers Are Taming InsurTech Startups to Suit Their Investment Needs: Willis Towers Watson
Traditional insurers and reinsurers played a big part in fueling InsurTech startup investment momentum in 2017. By doing so, they tamed potential rivals, turning them into a source of technology to ...
The Latest Launches From The Hartford and Esurance
The Hartford said that it has added some new bells and whistles to its online business quoting system for agents and brokers. Esurance is getting into the rideshare insurance business in California, ...
Allianz-Owned Microinsurer BIMA: Closing the Protection Gap in Developing Nations
The insurance protection gap in developing nations is being filled by a growing group of microinsurers, which provide coverage that ranges from life and health insurance, to crop insurance, to ...
AmTrust Allies With Israeli Tech Startups to Modernize Customer, Agent Processes
AmTrust Financial Services, which is in a bid to take itself private, is linking up with a number of Israeli technology startups to help modernize its customer and agent interactions. The New ...
Chubb, XL Catlin Among Large Carriers Now Offering Cover for Cryptocurrency Theft
Major global insurers are starting to offer protection against cryptocurrency theft, willing to tackle daunting challenges it brings rather than miss out on this volatile and loosely regulated, but ...
Disruption Survival Guide: Why Insurers Need to Craft Broader Business Definitions
How companies define their businesses can help determine their long-term success and even survival. Turn-of-the-previous-century buggy whip and bicycle manufacturers are often cited as examples of ...
SkyWatch, a Drone Data Risk Analysis Startup, Raises $2M With Insurance Industry Support
SkyWatch, a startup focused on analyzing data and risk for the drone industry, has reeled in $2 million in seed funding from a number of investors including insurance industry vets. The company plans ...
Slice Labs’ On-Demand Digital Insurance Platform Now Available to Carriers Via the Cloud
Slice Labs, the developer of on-demand, pay-per-use insurance for homeshare companies and others, started licensing use of the platform it created to outside insurers and startups. The New York-based ...