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AXA Will Provide Insurance for Uber Eats Couriers in Europe
Uber's food-delivery business will begin offering an insurance package to its couriers in Europe, a move to address the conditions of "gig economy" workers. Riders for food-delivery companies such as ...
The Latest Launches From Allied World and BHSI
Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings has begun marketing a professional liability policy focused on healthcare consultants and companies that provide consulting services to healthcare facilities. ...
What is business transformation in insurance? Insurance business transformation is an operating model and technology foundation shift that allows organizations...
Executives On The Move at CNA, Hamilton Underwriting, AGCS and More
A former AIG executive will help CNA grow its operations in the metro-Boston region. Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty is making some leadership changes in North America. Selective Insurance ...
Uber Investor Sues Over Company’s $680M Acquisition of Self-Driving Car Firm
Uber Technologies Inc. directors were accused of failing to properly review the ride-sharing company's $680 million acquisition of a self-driving technology firm that wound up being accused of ...
May’s Brexit Plan Changed by UK Parliament
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is headed to a European summit that was set to approve the breakthrough victory in Brexit talks she celebrated last week. Instead, she arrives after a serious defeat ...
Digital Insurer Lemonade: License Not Needed by Those Who Adopt Its API Sales Platform
Digital insurer Lemonade says companies that integrate its insurance sales platform, or API, into their own apps and web sites "generally speaking do not have to be licensed as insurance agents or ...
Does the Digital Insurer Spell the End of Agents and Brokers?
Does the digital insurer spell the end of agents and brokers? Not at all, according to some speakers at the InsureTech Connect Conference in October. While the roles of agents and brokers in personal ...
Netflix vs. HBO and the Race to the Insurance Customer
"The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us," the chief content officer of Netflix said four years ago. In the insurance world, InsureTech Connect Conference Founder Caribou Honig thinks ...