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Root Becomes Latest InsurTech to File IPO Plans
Digital Insurer Root Inc. has filed plans with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO. Details of the company's initial public offering will be fleshed out down the line. The ...
Root Hires Former Tennessee Insurance Commissioner McPeak as Expansion Continues
Former Tennessee insurance commissioner Julie Mix McPeak has joined Root Insurance in a leadership role. She is the Ohio-based InsurTech's Senior Deputy General Counsel as of Sept. 1. McPeak is well ...
Citing Social Justice, Root Pledges to End Credit Scoring for Auto Insurance Pricing
Root Insurance pledged to eliminate the use of credit scoring from its car insurance pricing model by 2025, a move the InsurTech said will help remove bias and discrimination from the process. ...
Pandemic Reinforces Innovation Culture at Root
In many respects, we unintentionally built Root to weather situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. We have always been fueled by our passion for identifying what's not working and rolling up our ...
A Quarantine Dispatch on Metromile, Lemonade and Root’s Financials
Since the first article in this series, Dispatches From InsurTech Survival Island, our principal goal in analyzing the quarterly statutory statements of the most relevant U.S. property/casualty ...
Executives On The Move at Root and Allianz
A former Facebook executive joined digital auto insurer Root as its first Chief People Officer. Allianz's Australian operations hired a new chief risk officer.
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 ...