Technology/Science
Digital Business Insurance MGA Vouch Pulls in $90M Investment; Partners With SiriusPoint
Vouch, a digital business insurance platform for startups, has closed on a $90 million round of financing, with plans to use the investment for new products and embedded insurance for its various ...
Forced Return to Workplace Could Lead to Lawsuits: Risk Alerts
Many employees are being forced to return to the workplace despite requesting accommodations for mental health issues such as anxiety, stress, depression, agoraphobia or PTSD. This has led to a spike ...
Carriers Marketing Usage-Based Auto Insurance Have Multiple Obstacles to Overcome: S&P Analysis
Usage-based personal auto insurance may be drawing ever-increasing attention. Its wider adoption is stymied, however, by customer age and demographics, privacy concerns, misunderstanding about the ...
New Product Alert: Cloud Outage Insurance, Amped-Up Specialty Insurance, Cyber Cover Twist
ELEMENT and Parametrix Insurance are partnering on parametric cloud outage insurance for companies in Germany. Mosaic Insurance and DXC Technology have launched an insurance technology platform that ...
Who Do You Trust? When Behavioral Science Fails
Late last week, I was reviewing my Twitter feed and came across a tweet that made no sense to me. While it's a common occurrence for me to be baffled by Twitter exchanges, this particular tweet ...
Urbint Raises $60M to Scale Up Incident Prevention Software Tech
Urbint, a software startup that can benefit insurers and risk managers, raised a $60 million venture capital round that will help the company scale its technology and develop new products. Energize ...
Realizing the Promise: Matteo Carbone Presents IoT Use Cases
When I was editing the last of a special set of articles in a section of Carrier Management's third-quarter 2021 magazine, I struggled a bit with an opening sentence in one of the draft versions. ...
The Journey to Build the Auto Insurer of the Future
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2021 Allstate is a leader in adopting telematics, according to IoT Insurance Observatory data indicating that the company has over 2 ...