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NEXT Insurance Acquired by Munich Re’s ERGO for $2.6b

With the full acquisition of NEXT, ERGO, Munich Re’s major primary insurance business, gains access to the North American market.

Posted: Mar 19, 2025

How Businesses Can Preserve Trust Against the Rising Threat of Fraudulent Invoices

The outgoing CEO of Allianz Trade Americas discusses the role of communication, prevention and technology tools in combatting the reputational threat of fraudulent invoices.

Posted: Mar 19, 2025

Yokahu Launches cat-risk.com Parametric Exchange to Transform Disaster Risk Finance

The platform is designed to seamlessly connect brokers, carriers, and data providers, significantly reducing friction in the market and ensuring fast, transparent payouts.

Posted: Mar 18, 2025

ZestyAI Hail and Wind Risk Models Gain Approval in Five States

The AI-powered models of the vendor’s Severe Convective Storm Suite cover more than 12 million residential and commercial properties.

Posted: Mar 18, 2025

EagleView Enhances Its Drone Solution to Improve Claims Triage Processes

With drone inspections, property insurers can now order property repair estimates to better resolve claims with greater speed, accuracy, and reduced errors.

Posted: Mar 18, 2025

AEGIS London Selects Fisent’s BizAI Solution to Optimize Key Business Processes

The commercial insurer seeks to streamline underwriting and policy management by using Fisent’s GenAI-enabled solution.

Posted: Mar 17, 2025

Nearmap Launches Portfolio Intelligence Solution for P&C Insurers

The new offering is an AI-powered solution enabling insurance carriers to act on portfolio-level insights at scale and with greater precision.

Posted: Mar 17, 2025

Manulife Names Steve Finch Asia President and CEO

The former Chief Actuary will succeed Phil Witherington effective May 9th.

Posted: Mar 17, 2025

Stormy Weather: Potential Gains and Pitfalls of Emerging Tech

As we enter Q2 of 2025, the mixed effects of newer technologies will continue to manifest, as we head into a changing demographic environment.

Posted: Mar 17, 2025

Plymouth Rock Assurance Adopts NWN Solutions

The Home and Auto insurer will use voice analytics and GenAI to boost operational efficiencies while improving customer and employee experience.

Posted: Mar 16, 2025

Frankenmuth Insurance Selects Guidewire Cloud

A Guidewire customer since 2014, Frankenmuth will also adopt Guidewire Advanced Product designer and the vendor’s Jutro Digital platform.

Posted: Mar 16, 2025

Manulife Drives Differentiation through AI Mastery

The firm is energetically fostering AI use by all its employees and embedding the technology in its processes to drive not just cost-reduction but revenue growth and superior customer experience.

Posted: Mar 13, 2025

Inside Manulife’s Digital Transformation

The North American life insurance and financial services company has invested over C$2 billion in modernizing systems, becoming cloud-centric, data quality and accessibility, AI, and customer/distributor-facing capabilities.

Posted: Mar 13, 2025

Beazley Names Lindsay Shipper Head of Commercial Property, North America

The former March executive brings expertise and extensive broker insight to Beazley, with close to two decades experience in the property market.

Posted: Mar 13, 2025

ACORD Solutions Group Launches ADEPT Regional Hub in Bermuda

The company is giving a way 1 million free digital messaging transactions on ADEPT, which enables the seamless exchange of placing, accounting, and claims data across the global insurance ecosystem, at all levels of digital enablement.

Posted: Mar 13, 2025

Kin Launches New Home Insurance Option in California

Building on a recent positive earnings announcement, Kin has launched a home insurance option for the entire state of California, just as insurance giants are leaving the state.

Posted: Mar 13, 2025

bolt Partners With C Spire to Deliver C Spire Tech Protection

The collaboration will offer advanced tech protection for customers of C Spire’s wireless and internet plans.

Posted: Mar 12, 2025

Trust, Personalization and Transparency: Foundational for Premium Accuracy

With the right approach, challenging conditions can become opportunities to build stronger, more transparent relationships with customers while improving operational efficiency.

Posted: Mar 10, 2025

Some CX Moments Matter More Than Others—Invest in Ones That Count Most

Today enhancing the customer experience and investing in technology can go hand-in-hand—companies are no longer required to choose between investing in technology and satisfying the customer.

Posted: Mar 02, 2025

Guardian’s Strategic Focus on Supporting Members through Wellness Partnerships

Matt Darula, Head of Product and Digital Offerings at Guardian, talks about the insurer’s partnerships with Peloton, Uber Health and other services that foster the interconnection between physical, financial, and mental well-being.

Posted: Feb 27, 2025

P&C Insurance: Mind the Gap(s)

The expression ‘Mind the Gap’ applies especially well to the many risks and headwinds faced by the insurance industry today which, if unattended, may be irreversible or much harder to close.

Posted: Feb 23, 2025

Transforming for Growth: MAPFRE USA’s Debashish Duttaroy

MAPFRE USA is transforming technology to support growth and product innovation in its traditional lines of business, with an emphasis on systems consolidation, advanced analytics, enhanced agent and customer experience and a shift to the cloud.

Posted: Feb 20, 2025

Accounting Matters as Vendor Ownership Models Shift

Changes in how the vendor world operates may be less obvious and yet have important implications for how insurance carriers manage large, transformational, efforts in the future.

Posted: Feb 16, 2025

Insurance Advisory Firms Embrace Data-Driven Insights, Self-Service, and Unbiased Expertise in 2025

As M&A drives evolution, firms are leveraging advanced technologies, developing comprehensive data platforms, and maintaining their role as unbiased experts to provide more valuable and accessible insights to their clients in the rapidly transforming...

Posted: Feb 13, 2025

Why Would Tesla Be Comfortable Entering Insurance?

Insurers struggle to build more integrated, adaptive and intelligent products and services so it makes sense for car manufacturers to sideline the insurer and do it themselves.

Posted: Feb 12, 2025