Personal Lines
Hippo Makes an Acquisition Intended to Strengthen Its Home Insurance Services
Hippo Insurance has acquired an early-stage startup designed to beef up its digital home insurance services for clients. The InsurTech startup and managing general agent said it snatched up Sheltr, a ...
The Latest Launches From AXA XL, Bold Penguin/CNA and W.R. Berkley
AXA XL launched a six-week program designed to enable client risk managers to develop new products and services for complex risks. CNA is now officially part of a new commercial insurance platform ...
Another Business Interruption: Mass California Power Outages Return
Power supply to about 150,000 California homes and businesses is expected to be shut off on Wednesday, in the latest precautionary outage planned by utility giant PG&E against wildfire risks ...
The Risky Business of Insuring Shared Households
An estimated 79 million adults, or 32% of the adult population, lived in a shared household in 2017. This uptick in shared household living comes in many different types. According to recent Census ...
Claims Handling Errors Are Often the Source of Insurer Market Conduct Troubles
Mistakes by claims professionals were the most common reason for enforcement actions taken against U.S. property and casualty insurers in 2018, taking the No. 1 and No. 2 spot on a top ten list ...
CyberCube Analytics Pulls in $35M Financing, With Plans to Broaden Marketing Efforts
CyberCube Analytics, a cyber risk analytics startup focused on the insurance industry, pulled in a $35 million financing to help fuel further growth. The San Francisco-based InsurTech said it will ...
Insurers, Others Pressure Global Energy Watchdog Over Climate Change Fight
Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), faced renewed pressure on Monday from investors and scientists concerned about climate change to overhaul the agency's projections for ...
Fire Tornadoes Becoming More Common in Australia, Thanks to Climate Change
Fire tornadoes are set to become a more common feature of the Australian landscape as climate change takes hold later this century. That's according to new research from the University of New South ...