Industry News
American Financial Group Acquires InsurTech Verikai in $120M Deal
American Financial Group (AFG) acquired Verikai Inc., a machine learning and artificial intelligence company that utilizes a predictive risk tool for assessing insurance risk, effective December ...
How Zurich Commercial Uses Underwriting Discipline to Find Profit in Any Market
Zurich Insurance Group has worked hard to turn around its financial results over the past five years by bringing underwriting back to the organization, with a greater focus on selecting the right ...
InsurTech Accelerant Raises More Than $190M in Latest Funding Round
InsurTech Accelerant raised more than $190 million at a $2 billion pre-money valuation in its latest funding round. The round was led by Eldridge, with participation from Deer Park, Marshall Wace, ...
Florida Power & Light Class Action Opens Door to Subrogation, Future Storm Claims
A Miami judge's certification of a lawsuit against Florida's largest utility company as a $10 billion class action, with damage claims from more than 4 million people who lost power in Hurricane ...
Loss Experience Drives Prices During January Reinsurance Renewals: Fitch
Loss-affected lines of business, such as property catastrophe in Europe, cyber or retrocession, continued to see significant price increases during the January 2022 reinsurance renewals, while ...
Net-Zero Insurers’ Climate-Friendly Plans to Exit Coal Impeded by Antitrust Laws
A group of the world's biggest insurers and reinsurers that jointly pledged to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from their underwriting activities have run into an unexpected opponent of their ...
Tech Bytes: New Partnerships at Bindable, Root, MAPFRE and DUAL
Bindable, an InsurTech for alternative distribution, joined Guidewire's Insurtech Vanguards Program, a new initiative led by property/casualty cloud platform provider Guidewire to help insurers learn ...
Activist Investment Firm Targets Safety Insurance; Wants Share Buyback, Directors
Activist investment firm Ides Capital Management has nominated two directors to the board of Safety Insurance Group and wants the company to buy back shares, cut costs and improve financial ...