Insurtech News

2023 Insurtech Predictions

We collected the thoughts of some of our #50insurtech influencers to get some insight into what 2023 has in store for us. ...

Posted: Jan 21, 2023

Insurtech must be taken seriously

We have seen the evaluations of the listed insurtech startups falling more and more over the past year. The HSCM Public InsurTech Index (HPIX)™ presented to the market 14 months ago is down by almost 65% from its maximum. This has led some of the inc...

Posted: Jul 01, 2022

No sign of distruption (yet!)

Earlier this month Carrier Management did an awesome summary of Buffet's thoughts about the listed full-stack insurtech: “We are not an insurance company. We’re a tech company,” he said, seemingly paraphrasing the remarks of an unnamed InsurTech exec...

Posted: Jun 01, 2022

The Return of Insurance In-Person Events

Over the last 5 years, the risks insurance tackles and the people it protects have undergone a systemic shift. In such an intense period of change for the industry, the race is truly underway for insurance companies to keep up with the most innovativ...

Posted: Apr 26, 2022

What's your favourite superpower? Insurtech!

I've spent the last six years bragging about InsurTech's potential in improving the insurance business. To quote some of my most famous contents about his: in 2016, the article My four Ps of InsurTech and, at the end of 2017, the book All the Insuran...

Posted: Apr 11, 2022

MAG SpA Group acquires majority stakes in insurtech scaleup Neosurance

AG SpA Group, for over 40 years the leading insurance broker for Italian companies active in both domestic and international markets, acquires the majority of the insurtech scaleup Neosurance, a digital broker and technology enabler operating in the...

Posted: Mar 30, 2022

Should we feel a little betrayed?

Lemonade has written almost $370M premiums (showing a 42% growth from 2020) and Root has written premiums more than $740M premiums (showing a 20% growth from 2020) However, both these two full stack insurtech players have run an insurance business...

Posted: Feb 27, 2022

GIANT Health announces new Digital Therapeutics (DTx) conference track

GIANT Health Event is credited by the Financial Times as "Europe's largest, most valuable annual festival of health-tech innovation”. Every year, GIANT Health designs its agenda to help its delegates explore the most relevant and innovative topics in...

Posted: Sep 15, 2021

ENEL X launches homix smart protection in collaboration with Neosurance and Net Insurance: the first...

Enel X launches its first on-demand and pay-per-use home insurance in partnership with online broker Neosurance and the insurance company Net Insurance: Homix Smart Protection, flexible insurance that protects the home against theft. It can be activa...

Posted: Jul 26, 2021

From Risk Transfer to Risk Prevention: how the Internet of Things is reshaping business models in in...

Risk prevention is inherent to insurance. Recent developments in technology and the corresponding availability of data, however, have the potential to influence change in this space. A key driver of this development is the Internet of Things (IoT), t...

Posted: Jun 06, 2021

How On-Demand Insurance Is Poised to Be the Next Big Thing

The insurance industry isn’t known for making sweeping changes. That’s because customers want simple, reliable, and recognizable products. They want to purchase something once and forget about it until they need it. However, a new concept called on-d...

Posted: Mar 10, 2020

Stay Tuned for Major Investments in Predictive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Stay Tuned for Major Investments in Predictive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

More than two-thirds of insurance carriers will invest in predictive analytics and artificial intelligence over the next two years. Sixty percent of carriers will invest in automation, and more than half will invest in machine learning. The technolog...

Posted: Mar 02, 2020

The key to insurance innovation? Peace of mind on a 24/7 basis
The key to insurance innovation? Peace of mind on a 24/7 basis

Generali is convinced that innovation is not just the key lever for its long-term success but also an opportunity to guide the process of change as a leader of the insurance industry. Therefore, innovation and digital transformation are key pillars i...

Posted: Feb 27, 2020

Webinar: Failure is Not an Option. Realize the Potential of Data Science From Swiss Re, AmFam, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Webinar: Failure is Not an Option. Realize the Potential of Data Science From Swiss Re, AmFam, and B...

With 90% of carriers actively investing in new data projects, project failure is not an option. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become mainstays in the insurance industry, equipping insurance companies with tools that c...

Posted: Feb 02, 2020

Italian Insurtech NET Insurance: 83 million euro GWP
Italian Insurtech NET Insurance: 83 million euro GWP

Net Insurance hereby informs that in 2019 the Company recorded a positive trend characterized by an increase in premiums written compared to the previous year. Altogether, Life and Non-Life premiums increased from 62 million euro in 2018 to 83 millio...

Posted: Jan 27, 2020

Employee and Customer Engagement Are Interlinked
Employee and Customer Engagement Are Interlinked

In the future of insurance, operational excellence is important, but only a qualifier. The points of differentiation are in customer engagement; in our view, even......

Posted: Jan 26, 2020

The 7 most relevant InsurTech trends of 2020
The 7 most relevant InsurTech trends of 2020

We interviewed our top insurtech influencers to get some precious insight into what 2020 has in store for us and we came up with these......

Posted: Jan 21, 2020

How To Drive the AI Value Proposition in Insurance with Cutting-Edge Analytics and Innovation
How To Drive the AI Value Proposition in Insurance with Cutting-Edge Analytics and Innovation

The insurance industry is facing the challenges of disruption caused by the technological advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Insurance carriers are......

Posted: Jan 19, 2020

How To Drive the AI Value Proposition in Insurance with Cutting-Edge Analytics and Innovation
How To Drive the AI Value Proposition in Insurance with Cutting-Edge Analytics and Innovation

The insurance industry is facing the challenges of disruption caused by the technological advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Insurance carriers are......

Posted: Jan 19, 2020

InsurTech predictions for 2020: focus on the drivers of sustainable growth within current uncertainties and velocity of change
InsurTech predictions for 2020: focus on the drivers of sustainable growth within current uncertaint...

2019 was an interesting year for InsurTechs and insurers alike. We estimate that since 2014, 3,600 InsurTechs entered the insurance market with new business models......

Posted: Jan 13, 2020

2019: the second best year in the last decade for InsurTech funding
2019: the second best year in the last decade for InsurTech funding

Summing it up, 2019 was a great year for insurtech investments with a total of $6.59B in funding, making the second best year in the......

Posted: Jan 08, 2020

Reuters Events claims pole position with new Auto Insurance event
Reuters Events claims pole position with new Auto Insurance event

What a time to work in Auto insurance! The stakes have never been higher, have they? To secure market reputation and deliver personalized product and......

Posted: Dec 11, 2019

Reuters Events claims pole position with new Auto Insurance event
Reuters Events claims pole position with new Auto Insurance event

What a time to work in Auto insurance! The stakes have never been higher, have they? To secure market reputation and deliver personalized product and......

Posted: Dec 11, 2019

Results-Driven Claims Innovation: Unlock the Real Value of Claims Tech with AIG, Ameriprise and Metromile
Results-Driven Claims Innovation: Unlock the Real Value of Claims Tech with AIG, Ameriprise and Metr...

In an age where customers are demanding their Insurance Carrier be more like Amazon or PayPal with a smooth, touchless customer experience, Insurance Carriers face......

Posted: Dec 05, 2019

Results-Driven Claims Innovation: Unlock the Real Value of Claims Tech with AIG, Ameriprise and Metromile
Results-Driven Claims Innovation: Unlock the Real Value of Claims Tech with AIG, Ameriprise and Metr...

In an age where customers are demanding their Insurance Carrier be more like Amazon or PayPal with a smooth, touchless customer experience, Insurance Carriers face......

Posted: Dec 05, 2019