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Where Insurance Communications Win—or Lose—Customer Loyalty

Clear, timely, and customer-controlled communications increasingly determine whether insurers retain policyholders or drive them away.

Posted: Jan 05, 2026

Mr. Lloyd: Four Cups of Coffee Please . . . and Some Ontology to Share

The new Lloyd’s syndicate highlights how analytics and alternative capital are reshaping the underwriting of diversified portfolios.

Posted: Jan 04, 2026

Cowbell Names John Botros CFO, Outlines Global Expansion Strategy

The company plans to scale its cyber and financial lines business while pursuing international growth and profitability.

Posted: Jan 04, 2026

M3 Insurance Selects SimplePin to Automate Finance Operations

The brokerage will use SimplePin’s platform to streamline receivables and improve payment processing.

Posted: Jan 04, 2026

Beneva Completes Merger With Gore Mutual Insurance

The combined mutual insurer plans to unify operations under the Beneva brand within one year.

Posted: Jan 04, 2026

Amalgamated Signs Five-Year Agreement with CHS for Benefits Platform

The insurance and benefits administrator will use CHS’s cloud-based platform to unify pension and health plan operations across its organization.

Posted: Dec 18, 2025

kWh Analytics: Underwriting Renewable Energy’s New Risk Reality

The specialist MGA uses data-driven underwriting to align renewable asset risk with insurance capacity and project finance requirements.

Posted: Dec 18, 2025

Voltaire Joins Guidewire PartnerConnect as Technology Partner

The companies will develop an Accelerator for ClaimCenter to support AI-generated claims correspondence within insurer workflows.

Posted: Dec 18, 2025

Brooks Tingle Tells Congress Incentives Can Drive Healthier Behavior

The John Hancock CEO points to decade-long Vitality data showing incentives and digital engagement can shift population-level health behavior.

Posted: Dec 18, 2025

Previsico Names Mark Pinkerton Chief Technical Officer

The former Guidewire and Risilience executive will lead technology strategy and platform development as the flood forecasting company expands globally.

Posted: Dec 17, 2025

Cytora and Pilotbird Partner to Integrate Lifestyle Analytics

The London- and New York-based firms are combining claims digitization and open-source intelligence to help insurers reduce leakage and improve payout accuracy.

Posted: Dec 16, 2025

Sapiens Appoints New Executive Leadership as Advent Acquisition Closes

Following its transition to private ownership, the software provider names Mike Ettling as Executive Chairman and announces new CFO, CRO, and HR appointments.

Posted: Dec 16, 2025

Trexis Insurance Adopts Pinpoint Predictive to Support Billing Strategy

The personal auto carrier is using early loss predictions to tailor payment plan offers and improve premium conversion.

Posted: Dec 15, 2025

AI in Group Health: From Isolated to Integrated

Enterprise-level AI enhances underwriting accuracy, pricing consistency and lifecycle performance.

Posted: Dec 15, 2025

Canal Insurance Names Matthew Grimm Chief Underwriting Officer

The newly appointed CUO brings more than 30 years of underwriting and transportation insurance experience to the Greenville-based carrier.

Posted: Dec 14, 2025

LEEO Launches as Commercial Auto Insurance MGA

The company has rebranded from Fairmatic and named Jeffrey Chen as CEO to lead its data-driven underwriting strategy.

Posted: Dec 14, 2025

Commercial Underwriting—What’s Moving the Dial?

Commercial underwriting is being rebuilt end-to-end: smarter intake, triage, pricing, binding and monitoring to cut manual effort and align decisions to strategy.

Posted: Dec 14, 2025

Combined Ratio Solutions Offers an Alternative Path for Core Systems

An owner-operated, services-first model positions CRS as a competitive alternative for tier two carriers, MGAs and specialty insurers navigating legacy replacement.

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Beneva Accelerates Digital Auto Product Innovation with GFT

By converting its auto products to APD in eight weeks, Beneva unlocked faster digital delivery and business-user flexibility through a tightly coordinated engagement with GFT.

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Finys Partners with ManageMy to Support Digital Front Ends

The partnership enables insurers to pair the Finys Suite with ManageMy’s configurable platform to deliver modern policyholder and agent experiences.

Posted: Dec 10, 2025

Zurich Launches Builders Risk Solution for Data Centers

The new coverage adds operational property and weather parametric features to help protect hyperscale and AI-driven data center construction.

Posted: Dec 10, 2025

Heritage Deploys Guidewire to Modernize Core Operations

The Tampa-based insurer has implemented PolicyCenter and BillingCenter on Guidewire Cloud Platform to streamline underwriting, policy, and billing functions.

Posted: Dec 10, 2025

Guidewire Unveils Olos Release to Accelerate Pricing and Enhance Claims

Latest platform release introduces agentic AI, faster rate changes, and expanded workers’ compensation capabilities.

Posted: Dec 09, 2025

Equisoft Integrates Claude AI to Accelerate Insurance Modernization

The Montreal-based company has embedded Anthropic’s AI models into its life insurance platforms to support PAS transformation and team productivity.

Posted: Dec 09, 2025

Ledger Investing Launches Korra to Streamline Reinsurance Transactions

The new SaaS subsidiary will support end-to-end reinsurance and ILS operations through a unified platform for pricing, analytics, and reporting.

Posted: Dec 08, 2025