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AGCS Names Alessandro Carriglio Strategy Officer, Underwriting Portfolio Management, Americas

Gustavo Galrao will take over Carriglio’s former role as Regional Head of Financial Lines for South America.

Posted: Mar 25, 2020

Cloud-Based Solutions Help Mitigate COVID-19’s Effects on Insurers

Migration to cloud allows insurance and financial companies to focus on their core business and innovation during the good times, and weather the storms during major challenges, rather than investing in costly infrastructure and then spending hard-ea...

Posted: Mar 24, 2020

Xceedance Partners with Input 1 to Combine Policy Admin, Digital Billing/Payments

The partnership joins Input 1’s billing and with the MGA Agility Suite policy administration platform for program administrators and MGAs.

Posted: Mar 24, 2020

Willis Towers Watson Tool Tracks Pandemic Cases Against P&C Clients’ Assets

The new feature available with Willis Towers Watson’s Global Peril Diagnostic tool lets risk managers can assess their COVID-19 property exposure in real time.

Posted: Mar 24, 2020

OWIT Global Names Joel Otfinoski Chief Customer Engagement Officer

Otfinoski will be the global leader for all customer implementations and support for the provider of insurance-specific microservices solutions for the global insurance industry.

Posted: Mar 23, 2020

Manulife Selects dacadoo to Strengthen Asia Health Engagement Platform

The enhanced capabilities will provide customers a new scientific yet simple scoring method to measure how healthy they are and what they need to do to stay healthy.

Posted: Mar 23, 2020

Moment of Truth: Will COVID-19 Be the Tipping Point for Digital Transformation?

The more that people and businesses get used to operating remotely via digital tools, the more it will be expected—even after the COVID-19 is contained.

Posted: Mar 23, 2020

BitSight Joins Duck Creek Partner Ecosystem

The new partnership aims to help property/casualty insurers quickly and confidently underwrite cyber insurance coverage.

Posted: Mar 23, 2020

Unforeseen Impacts and Opportunities of the Era of Mega-brokerages

The advent of mega-brokerages creates possibilities to reshape client-broker-carrier interactions and preserve—and even extend—the influence of the independent channel.

Posted: Mar 22, 2020

Allianz Risk Transfer Names Peter Kiernan Head of North American Reinsurance

Kiernan is responsible for supporting the business sourcing activities backed by PIMCO ILS and Allianz Re capacity.

Posted: Mar 22, 2020

Appian Offers Free Application to Manage COVID-19 Response

The app establishes a central command center to safeguard the health and safety of employees, tracking health status, location, travel history and any COVID-19 incident details.

Posted: Mar 19, 2020

COVID-19: The European Insurance Industry in Crisis Mode—5 Strategies

How European insurers are weathering the COVID-19 crisis, and five lessons learned for the benefit of markets that are yet to feel the full force of the pandemic.

Posted: Mar 19, 2020

COVID-19, the Economy, the P&C Industry, and Technology Spending

A significant economic downturn will hurt P&C insurers’ financial results, and when P&C insurers’ finances decline sharply, there is an impact on their technology spend.

Posted: Mar 19, 2020

Insurers Adapt to the New Normal of COVID-19 and ‘Social Distancing’

Carriers around the world are reassuring their customers and implementing policies to protect their associates while providing a high level of service and advancing projects in flight.

Posted: Mar 19, 2020

Truelytics Offers New Emergency Continuity Solution Free of Charge

The vendor is offering the TrueContinuity solution to customers to help alleviate client anxiety due to the COVID-19 Outbreak.

Posted: Mar 18, 2020

AXA XL Launches Single Customizable Policy for Autonomous Vehicles

The policy provides a core coverage of third-party liability, damage to property insured and vehicle theft.

Posted: Mar 18, 2020

Sapiens Integrates HazardHub Geographic Risk Data into P&C Core Suite

Sapiens’ partnership with HazardHub will facilitate more accurate underwriting and straight-through-processing for North American P&C insurers, improved experience for agents and customers.

Posted: Mar 18, 2020

Delta General Agency Selects ClarionDoor’s MGA Hub

CD MGA Hub captures minimal information and retrieves quote indications from various carriers with no re-keying of data, complicated integrations, or lengthy implementations.

Posted: Mar 17, 2020

The Helper Bees Launches Virtual Home Health Assessments

The offering assists caregivers, clinicians, and insurers in overcoming challenges related to delivering quality home care while battling the risk of transmission of COVID-19.

Posted: Mar 17, 2020

COVID-19 Estimates as of March 18: AIR Worldwide

Case numbers are growing in the United States as testing is expanding, with 3,536 confirmed cases and 58 deaths from the disease.

Posted: Mar 17, 2020

Direct Online Small Commercial: Poised for Growth in 2020

The industry is still waiting for a major advertising push to drive the widespread adoption of direct online small commercial sales, but Novarica estimates that the $3B direct small commercial market could grow to $12B by 2025.

Posted: Mar 16, 2020

Adapting to Remote Agile

As of this week, many development teams will be having their first experience with remote Agile. Even those experienced with occasional work-from-home or geographically dispersed members may still find themselves in uncharted territory when forced in...

Posted: Mar 16, 2020

SURA Partners with Welltok for Personalized Wellbeing Experience

Welltok’s data-driven platform will serve as the primary destination for members and dependents to conveniently access SURA’s wellbeing programs and engage in health-related activities.

Posted: Mar 15, 2020

Sancor Seguros do Brazil Deploys Guidewire Insurance Platform

The Brazil-based branch of the Argentine insurer has implemented InsurancePlatform to its personal auto line of business with the goal of increasing efficiency.

Posted: Mar 15, 2020

BrokerTech Ventures Adds Five Agency Sponsors, Names Susan Hatten COO

With the addition of Heffernan Insurance Brokers, The Horton Group, IMA Financial Group, MJ Insurance, and Woodruff Sawyer, BTV now represents more than $2.1 billion in collective agency distribution.

Posted: Mar 12, 2020