Personal Lines
Drones Pulled Into Play to Help Fight Wildfires in U.S. West
In a grassy meadow outside Missoula, Montana, Jennifer Fowler eyes two drones high in the sky with weather instruments -- part of a program to see how drones can help to fight and monitor wildfires. ...
Executives On The Move at One Concern, The Hartford, Players Health and Markel
A former Swiss Re Executive is taking on a leadership position at One Concern, an AI startup focused on building the global resilience market. The Hartford promoted a rising executive within its ...
Bolttech Raises $180M to Supercharge Insurance Company Matchmaker Platform
Insurance tech startup bolttech on Thursday said it raised $180 million in a funding round, led by private investment firm Activant Capital Group, that valued it at more than $1 billion. The New York ...
How Pres. Biden’s Tax Plan Impacts Global Reinsurance, Fla. Homeowners
The bills for the Biden administration's multitrillion-dollar American Jobs and American Families plans are expected to be footed by additional revenues generated by The Made in America Tax Plan. A ...
Scoop, There It Is: Novel WFH, Missed Rent, Ice Cream Cookie Coverage
Some of the latest insurance product offerings include WFH Insurance from Nationwide, loss of rent insurance from Swiss Re's iptiQ, and "the tastiest insurance ever"—not really insurance—for ice ...
‘This Is The Big One.’ Early Fires Predicted Amid Historic Drought
Sarah Brunner opened the irrigation spigots on her farm in March, three months early. The rain should have still been falling in California. Now that summer is taking hold, she and her husband are ...
EIS Eyes New Insurance Software Growth Phase With $100 Million TPG Investment
Insurance software company EIS secured a $100 million investment from private equity firm TPG, money designed to help it accelerate product development across multiple product lines. A geographic ...
Global RV Rental/Travel Marketplace Outdoorsy Raises $120M, With Plans to Expand Insurance Division
Digital MGA Roamly is poised for expansion, thanks to more than $120 million in equity and debt financing raised by parent company Outdoorsy - a global online RV rental and outdoor travel ...