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Glow Raises $22.5M Series A to Optimize Insurance for Small Businesses

The digital agency will use the financing to fund innovation in its digital platform, and to expand into more states.

Posted: Nov 07, 2022

Assurant Enhances Electric Vehicle Coverage, Availability

The enhancements to the EV One Protection product address the shortcomings and pitfalls of current EV insurance as electric car ownership grows in the United States.

Posted: Nov 07, 2022

Zurich Insurance UK selects CoreLogic’s Digital Platform to Support Claims

The Claims Connect platform enables higher quality data and insights, greater process efficiencies and ensures that customers can receive timely support.

Posted: Nov 06, 2022

Pattern Insurance Appoints Ido Hertz VP of Products

The former Agoda Head of International Travel Recovery Products is tasked with accelerating product innovation at the InsurTech.

Posted: Nov 03, 2022

WTW Appoints Nancy Korcinsky Head of Risk & Broking, Southeast

Korcinsky replaces Doug Pera, who plans to retire at the end of 2022.

Posted: Nov 02, 2022

Corvus Insurance Partners with Travelers to Enter Continental European Cyber Insurance Market

The offering will focus on Germany and Austria, providing brokers and policyholders with localized cyber insurance tools, and the combined cyber underwriting expertise of both companies.

Posted: Nov 02, 2022

Insurance Technologies Rebrands as Hexure

The new brand signifies a sharper strategic focus on leading the insurance, financial services and wealth management industries.

Posted: Nov 01, 2022

Hiscox Names Sarah Bourdeau Head of Distribution in the U.S.

Bourdeau will serve on Hiscox USA’s Leadership Team and will report to Kevin Kerridge, CEO of Hiscox USA.

Posted: Nov 01, 2022

FCCI Insurance Group Selects Akur8 to Streamline Underwriting and Pricing

The solution will let FCCI’s predictive modeling team to collaborate seamlessly, strengthen buy-in from internal stakeholders, and drive efficiencies to allocate resources to higher-value tasks.

Posted: Nov 01, 2022

Columbia Insurance Group Selects Gradient AI to Increase Claims Efficiency and Accuracy

The insurer will use the vendor’s AI-powered technology to alert adjusters to high-risk workers’ compensation and commercial auto claims.

Posted: Oct 31, 2022

American Farmers and Ranchers Insurance Selects Betterview Property Intelligence Platform

The Oklahoma-based multiline insurer will use the platform to to improve underwriting efficiency and reduce premium leakage.

Posted: Oct 31, 2022

Roots Automation Raises $100M in Seed Round

The vendor uses AI and machine learning technology to power ‘Digital Coworkers’ improving on RPA and bringin an integrated, holistic approach to automation that aligns with insurers’ human workforce.

Posted: Oct 31, 2022

Mutual Benefit Selects Duck Creek’s Text Integration with SPLICE Software

Through thirteen different touchpoints, Mutual Benefit Group can continually keep its customers up to date with texts and email.

Posted: Oct 30, 2022

Will Insurers Be Connected to the Connected Car?

Auto insurers have a strategic imperative to not be left behind in the race to monetize connected car data, and there are several ways insurers can do this.

Posted: Oct 30, 2022

Guidewire CEO Coaxes Customers to Embrace Cloud

At the Connections customer conference on Oct. 24, Mike Rosenbaum stressed the logic of Guidewire innovating in the cloud and the ‘illogical’ choice to invest in innovation on-premise.

Posted: Oct 27, 2022

Appian Joins Guidewire’s PartnerConnect Solution Ecosystem

The Appian Low-Code Platform integrates directly to Guidewire Cloud APIs and the Jutro Digital Platform.

Posted: Oct 27, 2022

AmeriLife Partners with Health Resource Advisors

The national Medicare expert joins AmeriLife’s national distribution organization to fuel growth and expansion.

Posted: Oct 26, 2022

Australian Startup Argyle Rapidly Deploys Duck Creek in the Cloud

A sub-60-day execution was achieved through an innovative Australian SME template built by the Duck Creek APAC regional product development team.

Posted: Oct 26, 2022

KOBA Insurance Adopts Socotra Platform to Expand UBI Product Portfolio

Socotra gives the Australian UBI product innovator a platform for international scalability and the ability to introduce new products and innovations quickly as KOBA evolves its distribution model.

Posted: Oct 26, 2022

4 Key Principles for Becoming a Customer-Centric Digital Insurer

How can insurers make this digital shift to customer centricity? Here are four key principles to help guide them through this transformation.

Posted: Oct 26, 2022

EIS Launches Managed SaaS Service for Carriers Transitioning to AWS or Azure

CloudCore customer production support de-risks and accelerates a carrier’s journey to the cloud.

Posted: Oct 25, 2022

Branch Adds Term Life Insurance to Its Bundling Proposition

Life insurance gives Branch another line to offer alongside home, auto, renters and umbrella insurance.

Posted: Oct 25, 2022

Guidewire Names David Laker Chief Sales Officer

Laker has held senior cloud roles for financial services at both Oracle and Salesforce.

Posted: Oct 24, 2022

Landkreditt Forsikring Selects Sapiens for Complete Core Transformation

The major Norwegian P&C insurer has deployed Sapiens the cloud-based Tia Enterprise core-transactional system part of a package of Sapiens solutions to support digital transformation.

Posted: Oct 24, 2022

Semsee Adds ACORD Upload and Download to Small Commercial Insurance Platform

The solution enables multi-carrier quoting and submissions from any agency management system.

Posted: Oct 24, 2022