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Metromile Attracts $50M Investment From Uber Vet as Reverse Merger Plans Finalize
Metromile has attracted $50 million in new investment from a former Uber executive even as it has obtained regulatory approval to formalize a reverse merger deal that will make it a publicly-traded ...
P/C InsurTech Funding Reaches $4.7B Record In 2020 (Story In Charts)
After a slow start in 2020, InsurTech funding reached a record level of $7.1 billion for the year, with $4.7 billion earmarked for property/casualty startups, according to a quarterly tracker of ...
The Latest Launches From Trov and National General
Insurance technology company Trov is partnering with a sustainable digital car rental platform. Allstate-owned National General Holdings Corp. expanded its private flood insurance product into a ...
Executives On The Move at AXIS Re and Coalition
AXIS Re appointed a new head of AXIS Re's Reinsurance Products division. Coalition has appointed five new production underwriters to help grow and serve the company's middle market ...
Rent Security Deposit Insurance Startup Raises $95M
New York City-based InsurTech Rhino recently pulled in $95 million in new financing, money that will propel growth of its security deposit insurance business. Investment firm Tiger Global Management ...
Top 2021 Risks Look Much Like 2020: Pandemic Fallout and Cyber Attacks
There was no escaping the coronavirus in 2020 and the pandemic will dominate the risk landscape again in 2021, according to global leaders in business, risk management and insurance. A trio of ...
Allianz Wins China Approval to Launch Insurance Asset Management Firm
Allianz said on Thursday it had obtained regulatory approval to set up China's first wholly foreign-owned insurance asset management company, as the German insurer steps up expansion in the world's ...
Industry Underestimating COVID Biz Interruption Losses: RenRe CEO
During an upbeat earnings call focused on how RenaissanceRe is using $1 billion of capital it raised last year in 2021, the CEO highlighted one negative development for the industry ...