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London Underwriters Launches New InsurTech Bunch Insurance on INSTANDA Platform

The traditional wholesale brokerage harnessed INSTANDA cloud-native platform to launch brand-new commercial insurance program.

Posted: Mar 31, 2021

Aclaimant Raises $15 million in Series B Financing Led by Next Coast Ventures

The new funds for the insight-driven workflow platform for safety and risk management will be used for product innovation, hiring, and accelerated client acquisition and sales, as well as marketing and partnership development.

Posted: Mar 31, 2021

Confianza Names David Young CTO

Young is responsible for spearheading all aspects of Confianza’s Insurance services platform hosted in the modern cloud environment as powered by Amazon Web Services.

Posted: Mar 30, 2021

Next Insurance Raises $250M in Series E Financing Round

With the new round, led by FinTLV Ventures and Battery Ventures, Next has doubled its valuation in four months to $4 billion.

Posted: Mar 30, 2021

Hospitality Insurance Group Deploys Finys Suite

Commercial Package is in production, including Liquor Liability. Business Owners is next.

Posted: Mar 29, 2021

Irish Life Upgrades ClaimVantage and Moves to the Cloud

The move will modernize and optimize Irish Life’s claims operation, elevate its Income Protection offering in the market, and enable the company to rapidly adapt to new products.

Posted: Mar 29, 2021

Allstate Protection Plans Selects Synchronoss Personal Cloud

The solution gives insurers the ability to safeguard both devices and content, growing customer loyalty and fortifying customer relationships.

Posted: Mar 29, 2021

Principal Financial Group Migrates on-Premise FINEOS Platform to Cloud

The migration will enable Principal to take advantage of the FINEOS APIs to drive digital engagement, open connectivity, and a better overall digital client experience.

Posted: Mar 29, 2021

New York Life Names Bill Cassidy CIO

Cassidy served as SVP and head of shared services technology, overseeing enterprise computing services, enterprise architecture, enterprise data, information security, digital, and technology strategy planning.

Posted: Mar 28, 2021

e2Value Partners with Betterview to Enrich Property Intelligence for Underwriters

Property valuations and replacement cost estimates from e2Value will be viewable directly within the Betterview platform.

Posted: Mar 28, 2021

Óptima Seguros Upgrades, Moves to Majesco CloudInsurer

The San Juan, Puerto Rico-based property and contingency insurer sought advanced and innovative capabilities that will help support Óptima’s growth strategy.

Posted: Mar 25, 2021

Guardian Life Partners with Atidot on New Insurance Models, CX

The collaboration is focused on creating a platform that deploys AI and machine learning to make insurance products and services easier for consumers to understand and buy.

Posted: Mar 25, 2021

AXA XL’s Construction Ecosystem Wins Celent Model Insurer Award

At Celent’s Innovation Insight Week, AXA XL’s Gary Kaplan and Rose Hall discussed how the Construction Ecosystem fosters construction company clients’ technology adoption and more safe and profitable operations.

Posted: Mar 25, 2021

The Gig Economy and Worker Benefits: How Innovation is Helping Companies Meet New Demands

Innovation in insurance is one way technology can help service companies with gig employees weather the growing storm of regulations and legislation.

Posted: Mar 24, 2021

Acrisure Secures $3.4 Billion in Capital Raise

BDT Capital Partners led a $3 billion investment in Senior Preferred Stock, and a consortium invested $454 million of new capital in Junior Preferred Stock.

Posted: Mar 24, 2021

Snapsheet Secures $30M in Series E2 Financing

The new funds will be used to accelerate growth and add new functionality to the company’s claims management platform, as well as to make key hires across engineering and sales teams.

Posted: Mar 24, 2021

Pie Insurance Completes $118 Million in Series C Funding

Led by Allianz X and Acrew Capital, the round will enable further innovation, new business offerings, and rapid expansion.

Posted: Mar 24, 2021

Thimble Names Richard Stamets SVP of Business Development

Stamets is tasked with scaling Thimble’s technology-driven flexible insurance proposition, working with insurance brokers, agents and wholesalers to better serve their small business customers.

Posted: Mar 23, 2021

Ensurem Acquired by Private Investment Firm 777 Partners

The acquisition provides capital to fulfill the vendor’s vision of providing a simplified Medicare shopping experience, online or over the phone.

Posted: Mar 23, 2021

Sapiens Expands Partnership with Atos for Life & Pension BPO Services

Sapiens will implement its platform for the policy administration of millions of pension members served by Atos.

Posted: Mar 23, 2021

New York Life Accelerates Underwriting Through Collaboration with Cerner

The collaboration supports New York Life’s safely and securely accessing hospitals’ EHRs in near-real time with patient consent.

Posted: Mar 23, 2021

Hollard Goes Launches New Duck Creek Core Systems in Six Months

The insurer opens up new books of business fully integrated into a broker platform with modern, low-code tools from Duck Creek Technologies and implementation by Xceedance.

Posted: Mar 22, 2021

Gore Mutual selects FRISS for Fraud Prevention

The insurer will be able to take a firmer stance against insurance fraud while providing more efficient underwriting and claims services for the insurer and its policyholders.

Posted: Mar 22, 2021

Hollard Launches New Duck Creek Core Systems in Six Months

The insurer opens up new books of business fully integrated into a broker platform with modern, low-code tools from Duck Creek Technologies and implementation by Xceedance.

Posted: Mar 22, 2021

To Stay Competitive, Embrace the Data Science Team of the Future

With smart homes and IoT devices gaining popularity, carriers should prepare for an explosion of new data to work with by building their data science team internally and partnering with an analytics team with deep knowledge and strong capabilities in...

Posted: Mar 21, 2021