Underwriting
Buckle Secures $60M Financing to Scale Gig Economy Digital Platform
Buckle Corp. has nailed down $60 million in new venture capital financing, money that will help scale its full-stack insurance-as-a-service platform for the gig economy. "This new raise helps ...
Chubb’s Blink Digital Platform Partners With USAA, Its First Incumbent Carrier
Blink by Chubb, Chubb's new digital platform launched earlier this year, is partnering with its first incumbent insurance carrier. The arrangement allows USAA Insurance Agency to offer a Chubb-backed ...
United Nations Development Arm Starts Disaster Insurance Program
The United Nations Development Programme has launched an initiative to help governments and the private sector in developing countries provide insurance for crises such as pandemics and natural ...
Corvus Hires AIG, InsurTech Vet Tadikonda as Its First President
A veteran AIG executive and entrepreneur is joining Corvus Insurance as its first president. Madhu Tadikonda has more than a decade of insurance and InsurTech industry experience, noted Corvus, an ...
InsurTech NY Debuts Index Scoring Carrier Willingness to Partner With Startups
InsurTech NY is debuting an index that scores insurance and reinsurance companies on their willingness and ability to partner with industry-related tech startups. The organization, which bills itself ...
In a Legal Test Case, U.S. Court Upholds Hospital Employee COVID-19 Vaccine Rule
A federal judge on Friday ruled that a Cincinnati, Ohio-area healthcare provider could require its employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing their job, in what appears to be the first ...
MGU SageSure Secures $125M in Bank Financing to Support Continued Growth Plans
SageSure, a tech-driven managing general underwriter focused on costal residential property markets, raised $125 million in bank financing meant to enable its continued growth plans. "SageSure has ...
China Cracks Down on Cryptocurrencies, Banning All of Them
China's most powerful regulators on Friday intensified a crackdown on cryptocurrencies with a blanket ban on all crypto transactions and mining, hitting bitcoin and other major coins and pressuring ...