Digital Insurance

Root launches home insurance

Insurtech also offers usage-based auto coverage and renter’s insurance.

Posted: Jun 04, 2020

Home insurtech Hippo acquires Spinnaker Insurance

Companies have been working together for several years.

Posted: Jun 03, 2020

The new era of geocoding in property underwriting

Technologies have enabled increasing precision as solutions evolved from postal code centroids to street level centroids to land parcel centroids.

Posted: Jun 03, 2020

Self-driving startup Argo completes $2.6 billion tie-up with VW

VW’s investment includes a $1 billion cash infusion and the folding of its $1.6 billion Autonomous Intelligent Driving unit into Argo.

Posted: Jun 02, 2020

Insurance digital behavior modifications pit heroes against hedonists

How much do we really understand about users’ motivations to use digital products for improving health?

Posted: Jun 02, 2020

Digital investments begin to pay off for P&C, J.D. Power finds

Property and casualty insurance companies improve in digital service after significant investment in direct-to-consumer websites and mobile design.

Posted: Jun 02, 2020

Startup presses ahead with pilot projects to electrify roads

(Bloomberg) -- Electreon Wireless Ltd. is pressing ahead with projects to test its technology that allows electric cars to be charged while driving, potentially demonstrating a way to overcome a key barrier to the mass adoption of the vehicles.

Posted: Jun 02, 2020

Dig In Podcast 007: Advancing digital transformation at Travelers during COVID-19

Travelers' EVP and chief technology and operations officer Mojgan Lefebvre joins the show to discuss the company's tech priorities before, during, and after the pandemic; and how the company is keeping up its recruiting and onboarding of key tech tal...

Posted: Jun 01, 2020

American National to deploy water sensors

Texas-based insurer partners with Roost.

Posted: Jun 01, 2020

Apple buys machine-learning startup to improve data used in Siri

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. bought machine-learning startup Inductiv Inc., adding to more than a dozen AI-related acquisitions by the technology giant in the past few years.

Posted: May 29, 2020

Google sued by Arizona over collecting user location data

With the location tracking setting turned off, the Alphabet Inc. unit collects information deceptively through other user settings, according to a lawsuit.

Posted: May 29, 2020

Trov expands to Brazil

With a new partnership, Seguros Sura Brazil will offer on-demand insurance products covering personal valuables.

Posted: May 28, 2020

Amazon working on deal for Zoox self-driving auto company

Potential deal could speed autonomous delivery, cutting the giant's costs.

Posted: May 28, 2020

5 ways insurers can tackle digitally based 'ecosystem' distribution

Ecosystem orchestrators and participants, such as car-sharing service vendors, could also collect and integrate massive amounts of data from different services

Posted: May 27, 2020

Root launches roadside assistance with fellow insurtech Agero

Usage-based insurance startup says revamped offering delivers on brand promise of full digital.

Posted: May 27, 2020

AXA XL to introduce risk management platform for construction clients

The platform monitors and aggregates data from several technology partners.

Posted: May 27, 2020

Travelers signs on with broker insurtech accelerator

It is the first carrier to partner with BrokerTech Ventures

Posted: May 27, 2020

Insurance marketing tips as the pandemic continues

When building a successful digital marketing strategy, several guidelines should be kept in mind.

Posted: May 26, 2020

Three steps for managing global insurance data

Helping insurers to use new and emerging sources of data to streamline or improve operations and processes, reduce costs, and boost efficiency.

Posted: May 26, 2020

Optimism or pessimism for insurance tech post-COVID-19?

Month-to-month changes in the insurance industry's fiscal outlook will impact digital choices.

Posted: May 22, 2020

Meet the insurtech: Getsafe

Based on on data from customers’ interactions with its app, Getsafe can identify life stage changes that open up insurance needs.

Posted: May 21, 2020

The benefits of microservices in insurance

If insurance companies are to catch up with today’s more mobile and tech-savvy customers and not lose market share to the so-called “insurechs,” they need to digitize - and fast.

Posted: May 21, 2020

Trump wants hospitals and insurers to reveal costs

The White House wants Congress to require hospitals and insurers to reveal the prices they negotiate for medical services as part of any additional round of coronavirus stimulus.

Posted: May 20, 2020

Coronavirus is forcing the insurance industry to embrace digitization

Companies who had already adapted to a culture of digital innovation technology have proven more successful during this sudden and dramatic shift.

Posted: May 20, 2020

Can insurtech solve women's life insurance coverage gap after COVID-19?

Coronavirus has exposed that risk is ever-present and the traditional inequities in insurance levels for women should be addressed.

Posted: May 20, 2020