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How Pay-Per-Mile Insurance Is Evolving
As automakers race to develop and test autonomous vehicles for longer and more complex trips, insurers offering unique types of auto insurance coverage aren't worrying about disruption. Dan Preston, ...
How Root Insurance Did What Other Insurers Only Imagined
Having achieved unicorn status with a $1 billion valuation less than two years after its official October 2016 debut, InsurTech carrier Root Insurance Company may seem like an overnight success. The ...
A Passion for Insurance: Growing Up in the Business
Alex Timm's path to the C-Suite of an InsurTech carrier probably isn't typical. Unlike other InsurTechs headed by technology experts or marketing officers from outside the insurance industry, Timm is ...
Did You Know? Auto and Renters Risks Correlated
To Alex Timm, CEO of Root Insurance Company, the auto insurance carrier's recent move into the renters insurance market seemed like a natural extension for its customer base given that 70 percent of ...
Who’s Next? The Value of MGAs vs. Carriers
With Next Insurance making a decision convert from a digital managing general agency for small and medium-sized businesses to a licensed insurance carrier in May, there isn't much to report from the ...
‘He’s Gaining on Us?’ An ‘Inconceivable’ Quarter of InsurTech Carrier Financials
As we worked on pulling together this third installment of our review of U.S. InsurTech startup financials, we were reminded of the scene from "The Princess Bride" in which a masked man in black ...
Root Insurance Raises $100M; Money Will Propel Continued Hiring Push, National Expansion
Root Insurance raised a $100 million financing round in a bid to fuel market expansion and hiring as the auto insurance startup with its telematics-based platform goes national. Tiger Global ...
InsurTech Carrier CEO Explains Poor 2017 Results; Fields Questions on Reddit
The chief executive officer of an InsurTech insurance company responded to recent reports about his company's unfavorable 2017 loss ratio result on a social news platform last Friday. "We want to ...