Executives On The Move at Metromile and Marsh
Metromile hired a veteran venture capitalist as its chief marketing officer. Marsh made a few senior leadership appointments within its Property and Financial and Professional Liability Practices.
Root and Lemonade: Real Unicorns or Ponies in Halloween Costumes?
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2019. In ancient times, it is believed that civilizations including the Romans, Indians and Egyptians had some form of "group protection" ...
CEO Interview: Metromile Shaking Up the Auto Insurance Industry With a Lifestyle Product
Metromile is one of the early InsurTech companies. It is also one of only a few InsurTechs that is really transforming the insurance business. Most InsurTechs focus on operating efficiencies in ...
Executives on the Move at Willis Re, NJM, Metromile and Betterview
NJM Insurance Group named a new CFO. A former Uber-engineering executive joined the Metromile team. The former leader data scientist of Farmers is now at Betterview. Willis Re has a new head of ...
Between an Ant and a Grasshopper, Lemonade’s Results ‘Most Improved’
The three U.S. venture-backed InsurTech carriers we have been tracking for several quarters have more money, more premium and more losses as we head into the last quarter of the year. During the ...
Can an InsurTech Startup Compete With Progressive and GEICO?
The most common refrain of startups is that insurance is broken and their solution will fix it. Oui, c'est vrai. But two companies have their act together more than almost any other insurers: GEICO ...
Startups vs. Incumbents Revisited: Q32018
We first pointed out in a second quarter analysis of VC-backed startups Root, Lemonade and Metromile that companies run or led by well-known underwriters were growing slowly but far more profitable ...
Hippo, Seller of Online Homeowners Insurance, Attracts $70M in New Financing
Hippo, a provider of super-quick homeowners insurance, said it has pulled in a new $70 million financing round designed to fuel an ongoing expansion of its customer-focused online products and ...
Startup vs. Incumbent: The Battle Rages as InsurTechs Grow Fast But Fail to Show Profits
How far will they climb? How far can they fall? Will innovative InsurTech startups rocket past established players? Those may be some of the unspoken questions beneath a series of articles written by ...