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Breeze CEO Colin Nabity on Bridging the Income Protection Gap

Nebraska can be a challenging location for software startups, but Omaha offers many benefits for this company working to address the lack of disability insurance coverage.

Posted: Dec 16, 2021

Sollers Achieves Guidewire Cloud Ready EMEA Specialization

Sollers Consulting is a Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partner at the Advantage level and has worked with Guidewire for over 10 years in EMEA, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

Posted: Dec 15, 2021

Stere Closes $2M Seed Funding Round led by Fin VC

The investment will enable Stere to transform the marketplace connecting insurance capacity providers with MGAs, program administrators, and embedded insurance platforms.

Posted: Dec 15, 2021

Innoveo and Techforce.ai Partner to Drive Adoption of Intelligent Automation

The partnership will enable Innoveo to provide capabilities powered by AI and natural language processing across intelligent OCR, conversational AI and smart RPA.

Posted: Dec 15, 2021

Middle Child: Why InsurTech Consistently Neglects The Mass Affluent

Insurance agencies must be realistic about their use of technology, especially where the mass affluent are concerned; InsurTech has its place, but that place is often as a conversation starter for this market segment.

Posted: Dec 15, 2021

Starr Insurance Selects Duck Creek Policy OnDemand

The longtimem Duck Creek customer will use the SaaS system to replace the existing policy administration system for the Starr Technical Risks business unit.

Posted: Dec 14, 2021

NFPA and vipHomeLink Announce Exclusive Content Alliance

NFPA will serve as the official fire and electrical safety information and knowledge provider for vipHomeLink’s digital home management platform.

Posted: Dec 14, 2021

LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Shift Technology Make Strategic Alliance

The combination of LexisNexis Claims Clarity and Shift Insurance Decisioning Capabilities creates a powerful automation tool for claims professionals.

Posted: Dec 13, 2021

Thimble Launches Event Insurance for Business Owners

Thimble’s event insurance aims to help small businesses and event planners rebound from the financial blowback of the pandemic.

Posted: Dec 13, 2021

Input 1 Payments Selected as Preferred Vendor to SIAA member Agencies

Through the preferred vendor relationship with Input 1, SIAA’s members will have access an easy method of collecting insurance premiums digitally from their customers.

Posted: Dec 12, 2021

Struggling to Keep Tech Talent? Consider Investing in Your IT Roadmap

With the added pressure of the Great Resignation, financial institutions that start embracing technologies of the future may carve out the necessary advantage over their peers when competing for top talent.

Posted: Dec 12, 2021

Colonial Surety Names Jay Lee CTO to Support Tech-Driven Growth Strategy

Lee will focus on development of Colonial’s AI-based direct sales platform, which is key to the company’s technology-based growth strategy.

Posted: Dec 09, 2021

Q&A: Jay Lee on His Appointment as CTO of Colonial Surety

Lee will use his customer-experience focused retail experience to build out Colonial Surety’s direct sales digital platform, enhance its data capabilities, and build its internal technology organization.

Posted: Dec 09, 2021

No-Code Platforms Key to Meeting Insurance Industry Challenges

Leveraging a no-code platform can help insurance carriers remain competitive in a challenging operating environment, by enabling efficiencies and allowing insurers to build future-proof digital applications.

Posted: Dec 09, 2021

SE2 Partners with Digital Asset on L&A Product Lifecycle Innovation

The companies report that they are building applications that tackle workflow and data inefficiencies, creating better outcomes for carriers, distributors, re-insurers, and consumers.

Posted: Dec 08, 2021

Goosehead Insurance Offers Life Insurance Via Partnership with Ethos Life

The agency has broadened its offering though integration between its Digital Agent platform and Ethos life to provide a seamless way for clients to shop for life insurance.

Posted: Dec 08, 2021

Bestow Partners with Equitable to Launch Digital Term Life

The new digital Term-in-10 product never requires a medical exam and is available in coverage amounts up to $1 million and in 10, 15 and 20-year terms.

Posted: Dec 08, 2021

bolttech Gains New Strategic Investor BRV

BRV’s partnership as a strategic investor will help propel bolttech’s expansion across Asia, particularly in Korea.

Posted: Dec 07, 2021

Appalachian Underwriters Adopts ClarionDoor MGA Hub

The solution lets Appalachian provide a one-stop approach for independent agents to easily access multiple carriers and products.

Posted: Dec 07, 2021

Caribou Honig Joins InsurTech Buddy Board of Directors

Honig is and investor, entrepreneur and a prominent figure in the InsurTech movement as founder of InsureTech Connect—the largest InsurTech conference globally.

Posted: Dec 07, 2021

Sequel Launches Hub to Enable Greater Efficiency in Specialty Distribution

The Verisk subsidiary reports that Sequel Hub has launched with over 10 carriers and two of the top three brokers.

Posted: Dec 06, 2021

Homepoint Cofounder Brian Brizard Joins Branch as Chief Business Officer

The appointment is a major investment to the commercial end of the commercial side of company’s business and partnership strategy as it continues expanding nationwide.

Posted: Dec 06, 2021

Socotra Partners with omni:us to Streamline Insurance Workflows

By leveraging a no-code integration on Socotra Marketplace, mutual customers can gain instant access to the omni:us product suite without leaving Socotra’s core platform.

Posted: Dec 02, 2021

Mobilitas GM Julie Brown on CSAA’s Venture into Commercial Insurance

A year after launching, this fall Mobilitas expanded its ride-sharing commercial insurance partnership with Lyft to seven additional states, and the CSAA subsidiary is branching into cargo and other products.

Posted: Dec 02, 2021

Broker and App Creator Jerry Partners with Lyft

The partnership creates an app-based car insurance (re)shopping experience immediately available to drivers in Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Posted: Dec 01, 2021