Digital Insurance

Small biz insurtech Thimble provides 'Pauses' for strained customers

All existing and new customers with a Thimble Monthly policy can now access Pause at no cost via the Thimble app for iOS and Android.

Posted: May 12, 2020

Water leak detectors reduce home insurance claims, severity in study

LexisNexis compared more than two thousand homes with installed IoT devices vs. a million uninstalled.

Posted: May 12, 2020

Lessons from Plaid for health insurance digital transformation

Facilitating the banking and financial services sector’s digital makeover serves as a prime example of what’s possible when development-killing barriers are removed and a new era of connectivity is delivered.

Posted: May 11, 2020

National Life Group CIO on adjusting to coronavirus

Nimish Mehta discusses the rapid transition required to keep the company going during the crisis.

Posted: May 11, 2020

The Dig In Podcast 005: Auto insurance customer experience after coronavirus

J.D. Power's Tom Super joins the show to talk about where gains are going in auto insurance while COVID-19 rages.

Posted: May 11, 2020

Tokio Marine taps Tractable AI for claims

Tokio Marine is also using a new product developed by Tractable, Loss Adjuster Application.

Posted: May 08, 2020

Health insurers offer discounts to customers hit by pandemic

The pandemic and the social distancing to quell it have cost millions of people their jobs and health insurance.

Posted: May 07, 2020

Plymouth Rock rolling out expanded AI SMS with insurtech

Auto insurer is expanding deployment of Hi Marley technology from a claims-based pilot to more service areas.

Posted: May 07, 2020

PHLY reduces risky business with commercial auto telematics

Working with insurtech Azuga, the carrier’s PHLYTRAC program has been impactful in reducing poor driving habits for fleets.

Posted: May 06, 2020

Humana to waive patients’ share of some costs for rest of 2020

The services affected include primary care, mental and behavioral health visits for issues like depression that could be exacerbated by the pandemic.

Posted: May 05, 2020

Let’s make a deal with our robot overlords

Robots run by algorithms will do a lot of jobs, replacing the human workers who in many cases will have trained them.

Posted: May 05, 2020

ACORD launches insurance tech jobs site

The free of charge Career Center will also provide a searchable database with candidate resumes focusing on insurtech roles.

Posted: May 05, 2020

Uber to design tech to check if drivers wearing masks, CNN says

The ride-sharing platform will require both drivers and passengers to wear masks or face coverings while in vehicles.

Posted: May 04, 2020

The Dig In Podcast 004: Insurance digital strategy for now and then

Forrester analyst Ellen Carney joins the show to discuss how insurance companies are likely to spend their digital and technology budgets in the wake of COVID-19, in order to adapt to the current situation and beyond.

Posted: May 04, 2020

USAA to implement contactless car service

Partnership allows USAA’s members access to CarAdvise’s No Contact Car Care, which uses digital technology to limit human interaction while social distance mandates exist.

Posted: May 01, 2020

Coronavirus spurring big claims volume in life insurance

Insurers are looking at more than $7 billion in claims, says Aite Group.

Posted: Apr 30, 2020

Insurtech startup funding lowest since 2018 amid coronavirus

Three-quarters of a billion dollars were invested in startups in the first quarter of 2020, less than half the amount from the final quarter of 2019.

Posted: Apr 30, 2020

Meet the insurtech: Covered by Sage

Company is focused on accessibility and efficiency for retail agents and brokers.

Posted: Apr 29, 2020

Data may imply coronavirus auto-premium reductions were premature

Amid record low travel and vehicle miles traveled, speeding and crashes in cities around the United States have increased.

Posted: Apr 28, 2020

Oscar Health lays off 5% of staff

Laid-off staff will receive severance and health care coverage, and layoffs won’t affect customer-facing roles.

Posted: Apr 27, 2020

The Dig In Podcast 003: Speeding up insurance digitalization post-COVID

With insurers rapidly deploying digital capabilities in order to service socially distancing customers, Jamie Yoder of Snapsheet thinks these habits could stick and become status quo going forward.

Posted: Apr 27, 2020

On the front lines of coronavirus care, a payment crisis escalates

Like other businesses, hospitals have been forced to make instant emergency changes because of the coronavirus. But many hospitals are concurrently getting a rush of demand for service with an unclear revenue stream.

Posted: Apr 26, 2020

Meet the insurtech: Honk

Counting Farmers among its clients, company’s platform provides touchless claims and roadside assistance.

Posted: Apr 24, 2020

Cashfree delivers more payment tools for India's insurance industry

Business payments gateway Cashfree has established new features for its insurance, web aggregator and broker clients in India to streamline policy premium collection, claim settlement and payouts to agents and hospitals.

Posted: Apr 22, 2020

Warmest oceans on record adds to hurricanes, wildfires risks

(Bloomberg) -- The world’s seas are simmering, with record high temperatures spurring worry among forecasters that the global warming effect may generate a chaotic year of extreme weather ahead.

Posted: Apr 22, 2020