Digital Insurance

Big telehealth push is health insurers' prime coronavirus response

Medicare telehealth policy changes are putting pressure on private plans to follow suit.

Posted: Mar 31, 2020

Coronavirus promises big changes for small business insurance

A common target of insurtechs, small businesses are likely to demand changes from their insurance providers in the post-covid-19 world.

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

Mortgage insurers should weather defaults from the coronavirus: KBW

The impending wave of loan delinquencies because of the coronavirus hurt private mortgage insurer earnings, but the companies will still have sufficient capital, a Keefe, Bruyette & Woods report said.

Posted: Mar 27, 2020

For insurers, coronavirus provides a lesson in not to fail customers

The way insurance companies respond to the COVID-19 crisis is indicative of how the industry will meet the biggest challenges going forward: the disappearing retail customer, over-regulation, shrinking product margins, low customer loyalty and public...

Posted: Mar 27, 2020

The coronavirus fight insurers thought they’d dodged is looming anyway

Growing scrutiny of civil authority clauses and what constitutes property damage means the industry is likely to face more pushback.

Posted: Mar 26, 2020

Principal goes all-insurtech for exams during coronavirus era

Tech from Human API was rolled it out faster and more broadly because of the virus following a pilot project last year.

Posted: Mar 26, 2020

COVID-19: A tipping point for insurance digital transformation?

It is critical to assess insurers’ internal operations and the implications for employees.

Posted: Mar 25, 2020

World’s back office scrambles to stay online as India locks down

Companies are scrambling to ensure that the millions who take on work outsourced by firms from airlines to insurers can keep going as the nation mandates increased work from home.

Posted: Mar 23, 2020

Insurance faces a crossroads in post-Coronavirus world

Catastrophe response is the insurance industry's stated goal. But currently, the sector has few answers for consumers.

Posted: Mar 22, 2020

Wedding cancellations open front in insurance's COVID-19 wars

Couples have begun battling with companies they paid in case of disaster, only to hear back that no policy can cover a global pandemic.

Posted: Mar 22, 2020

Trov uses real-time electric vehicle data to address car-sharers risk

Zerology's fleet will leverage anonymized, individual Tesla vehicle data to inform an on-demand commercial insurance product.

Posted: Mar 19, 2020

Insurtech Understory expands parametric hail insurance

Product targets auto dealers in 18 states.

Posted: Mar 18, 2020

Virus drives patients to virtual doctors and buoys telemedicine

As COVID-19 spreads across Europe, leaving new patients in its wake, the fear of infection and a saturated health-care system are driving large numbers of people online

Posted: Mar 17, 2020

5 ways tech leaders can manage the COVID-19 crisis

It is of strategic importance that we ensure our information technology is supporting the entirety of the organization and its ability to communicate.

Posted: Mar 17, 2020

Big tech swallows most of the hot AI startups

Artificial intelligence is a prime example of an important technology field where the majority of promising startups have been gobbled up, frequently ending public availability of any products they created

Posted: Mar 16, 2020

Driverless cars have arrived, and they all look like loaves of bread

The uniform and uninspiring looks of these autonomous vehicles are coming under criticism for being as much of a turn-off as the no-frills approach automakers took to designing EVs that ended up being slower sellers than expected.

Posted: Mar 13, 2020

First steps in COVID-19 response for insurers

The situation is changing rapidly, testing organization capacity and operational planning.

Posted: Mar 13, 2020

Amerisure launches commercial fleet UBI program

New offering uses technology from IMS.

Posted: Mar 11, 2020

How AI will improve CX in insurance

Insurers will use AI across different channels – in context - to deliver experiences that make customers happy.

Posted: Mar 10, 2020

Aon buys Willis Towers Watson for $30 billion

The largest-ever deal for the industry will combine the second- and third-largest brokers.

Posted: Mar 10, 2020

Selective taps virtual agency to run collegiate competition

Technology from PriSim powered the competition, in which risk and insurance students from several colleges competed.

Posted: Mar 09, 2020

Insurtech NY announces finalists for competition

Early and growth-stage companies will have a chance to win more than $300,000 in prizes.

Posted: Mar 08, 2020

Insurtech riding high in U.S. KPMG

KPMG’s latest Pulse of Fintech report finds insurtech investment in the U.S. rising, bucking wider fintech trends.

Posted: Mar 05, 2020

Lincoln Financial taps software from Munich Re's insurtech unit

First client for Munich Re Automation Solutions

Posted: Mar 04, 2020

Allstate, Ford in telematics data partnership

The majority of Ford and Lincoln 2020 model-year vehicles with embedded modems will be able to connect with Allstate’s Milewise program, which is currently in 14 states,

Posted: Mar 03, 2020