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Thimble Names Terri Hitchcock Chief Insurance Officer

Hitchcock, a veteran of over 30 years in the P&C industry, joins Thimble from Perr&Knight where she was Director of the Product Design Practice.

Posted: Apr 20, 2020

IMS Announces Availability of Low-Cost, Quick-Start Auto UBI Program

The new program is designed to address the need created by the global pandemic’s effect on has driving patterns, exposing the a need for a more flexible pay-as-you-go auto insurance model.

Posted: Apr 20, 2020

A Better Customer Experience Requires More than InsurTech—Introducing ‘Coretech’

Coretech combines next-generation technologies, methodologies and insurance core systems that easily consumes InsurTech and data, joins digital insurance ecosystems and can serve as a hub to deliver vastly improved customer experiences.

Posted: Apr 19, 2020

ACI Worldwide Introduces ‘Delay My Payment’ Capability

As more consumers face bill payment difficulties due to COVID-19, ACI Speedpay assists consumers and billers with digital communication and payment planning options.

Posted: Apr 19, 2020

YuLife Partners with HR Consultancy Buck

Incentive-based life insurance provider YuLife adds global, integrated HR consulting, benefits administration and technology services provider to its cohort of strategic partners.

Posted: Apr 19, 2020

Amy Minnick Joins Cape Analytics as Chief Business Officer

The veteran geospatial data executive has joined the property analytics provider with the goal of accelerating commercial growth and innovative data and distribution partnerships.

Posted: Apr 16, 2020

Corvus Insurance Launches Automated Ransomware/Business Interruption Cost Calculator

The Calculator allows brokers to provide more transparency around the limits they are recommending and enables them to share quantitative values that make it easier to understand insurance purchasing decisions.

Posted: Apr 16, 2020

COVID-19 Spotlights Digital, Remote and Cloud-based Insurance Solutions

The need to adapt quickly and work virtually is likely to accelerate technology trends and emphasize the value proposition of vendors of vendor solutions that exemplify them.

Posted: Apr 16, 2020

Liberty Mutual Commits $15M in Pandemic Crisis Grants to Community Partners

The grants benefit Boston-based organizations working to help the most vulnerable populations, including the ill, low-income residents and the homeless.

Posted: Apr 15, 2020

Socotra Receives ISO 27001 Certification

The designation is internationally recognized as the most reputable standard for the establishment and certification of an information security management system.

Posted: Apr 15, 2020

Insurance Tech Vendors: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, there is one category of tech solution providers that is experiencing high demand for new solutions and another class that is finding it to be a difficult time to generate new leads and sales.

Posted: Apr 15, 2020

Wellfleet and EIS Group Partner on Next-Gen Administration Platform

The growing workplace benefits insurer and prominent core processing platform provider aim to bridge the digital gap for brokers and their clients.

Posted: Apr 14, 2020

MassMutual Announces $3 Billion of Free Life Insurance for Healthcare Workers

MassMutual extends LifeBridge program, offering free life insurance to healthcare workers across Massachusetts and Connecticut to recognize their heroic contributions during pandemic.

Posted: Apr 14, 2020

Tokio Marine HCC Names Nick Pastor Chief Actuary

A veteran with more 25 years of actuarial experience, Pastor most recently served as Deputy Chief Actuary at AIG.

Posted: Apr 14, 2020

AIR Worldwide Launches COVID-19 Projection Tool

The tool provides case and death projections globally for the next four weeks, with data updated on a daily basis to project one day further into the future.

Posted: Apr 14, 2020

Covr Adds Haven Life to Its Platform

The Haven Term policy is now offered through Covr’s digital life insurance platform for banks, credit unions and their customers.

Posted: Apr 13, 2020

Securian Financial Waives 401(k) COVID-19 and Hardship Distribution Fees

The company will act as an ERISA 3(16) fiduciary for participant distributions and loans under the CARES Act, at no additional cost, for its existing full-service 401(k) employer customers.

Posted: Apr 13, 2020

MetLife Opens InterContinental Times Square to COVID-19 Healthcare Workers

As majority owner of the hotel, the insurer will offer free housing at the hotel for nurses, doctors and other medical workers effective immediately.

Posted: Apr 12, 2020

MetLife Helps Small Business Owners and Their Employees Navigate Pandemic

In response to COVID-19, MetLife is making services available to small business customers free of charge, as well as pledging to not increase rates on Group Benefits products through Sept. 1.

Posted: Apr 12, 2020

Kemper Announces Premium Relief to Policyholders and Support to Communities

The insurer will provide a 15 percent credit to personal auto policyholders towards April and May premiums, as well as committing $1 million to organizations focused on critical issues.

Posted: Apr 12, 2020

Plymouth Rock Offers Relief for Auto and Home Insurance Customers

Additional benefits available to health care workers; Relief will extend until current stay-at-home orders are lifted.

Posted: Apr 12, 2020

Haven Life Adapts to Help More Applicants Get Life Insurance During COVID-19

New access to medical data paired with AI will help further streamline the application process and provide more instant coverage offers to qualified individuals.

Posted: Apr 09, 2020

Insurers Respond to COVID-19, Helping Policyholders, Communities

Among the ways insurers are helping policyholders and the general public are by providing early dividends, premium relief, making charitable community contributions, pledging not to lay off employees, maintaining payments to service vendors, and waiv...

Posted: Apr 09, 2020

ACORD Releases Next-Generation Digital Standards to Streamline Insurance Data Exchange

The new data standards will support emerging and future technologies across all geographies and lines of business.

Posted: Apr 08, 2020

Cigna Adopts Shift Technology’s Force Fraud Detection Solution

By identifying potential fraud earlier, the insurer expects to be able to act quicker to investigate and reach the best possible resolution for customers and clients.

Posted: Apr 08, 2020