Strategy
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
GEICO, Following Progressive and Others, Adds Telematics to Track Driver Behavior
Berkshire Hathaway's GEICO auto insurer has joined the ranks of carriers using telematics to track and improve driver behavior—after resisting for years. Berkshire Hathaway's GEICO has been one of ...
The Latest Launches From Starr and Travelers
A division of Starr Insurance Companies debuted a distribution channel to sell coverage that benefits small federal government contractors. Many customers for The Travelers Companies Inc. will now be ...
The Great Hustle: Protecting Insurers From Fraud
Insurance fraud is as old as the insurance industry itself. Efforts to combat fraudulent insurance schemes can be traced back to the Middle Ages, but the menace still persists centuries later. In the ...