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Aon Partners With InsurTech CLARA to Deliver AI Claims Tools for Workers Comp Insurers
Aon Benfield has teamed with CLARA analytics to deliver artificial intelligence tools to workers compensation insurers in the U.S. to help employees return to work as quickly as possible while ...
InsurTech CoverWallet Secures $18.5M to Grow Small Biz Insurance Platform
Digital business insurance agency CoverWallet said it has closed an $18.5 million Series B funding round led by Foundation Capital with participation from existing investors Union Square Ventures, ...
42% of Workers Comp Premiums Set to Evaporate by 2030 as Jobs Get Automated
Piggybacking on the research of academics and researchers who studied the impact of automation on jobs a few years ago, two insurance analysts recently calculated an important impact for workers ...
Allied World ‘Vaults’ Into High-Net-Worth Market
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, GmbH and Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. announced their investment in Vault, a new venture that caters to the high-net-worth personal insurance ...
Now Open: Lemonade Shares API Platform With ‘The World’
Lemonade announced Tuesday that it launched a public API (application programming interface), allowing anyone to seamlessly offer Lemonade policies through their apps or websites. "Today, we're ...
Cat Bond Issuance Still Has a Record Year; Q3 Was Typically Slow
Catastrophe bond issuance came to just $460 million in new limit during the 2017 third quarter, though the typically slow Q3 added to what remains a record year for the sector, the Property Claims ...
Willis Towers Watson Selling Telematics Tech to Octo; Both Will Jointly Develop More
Willis Towers Watson plans to sell its usage-based insurance assets to Octo Telematics, a UK telematics company focused on the auto insurance industry. Once the deal concludes, both companies will ...
Zubretsky Out, Roche in as CEO of The Hanover
The Hanover Insurance Group announced Tuesday that John C. Roche has been appointed president and chief executive officer, effective Nov. 4, succeeding Joseph M. Zubretsky. The news came about a half ...