Technology & Analytics
Lloyd’s Syndicate Ascot Underwrites New Global Crop Insurance Platform
Farmers can now for the first time insure their produce against price volatility as easily as insuring their homes, with a global platform based on hundreds of niche commodity indexes, underwritten ...
Embroker Eyes Expansion in Multiple Ways After Securing $28M Series B Round
Embroker has raised $28 million in new venture financing designed to help the digital insurance company and brokerage startup expand. Plans call for using the Series B funding round, in part, to ...
Zurich/CoverWallet Expand Small Biz Insurance Platform Partnership Into Switzerland
Zurich Insurance Group investment in CoverWallet is bearing fruit, with Zurich now offering CoverWallet's platform targeted to small and medium-sized business insurance customers in Switzerland. ...
QBE North America Adds AI Virtual Assistant to Claims Reporting Process
Some QBE North America customers will now interact with an artificial intelligence virtual assistant while reporting claims. The specialist insurer said its TextQBE services will improve and enhance ...
Norsk Hydro Credited With Quick Response to Cyber Attack Despite Unrelated Upheaval: RMS
When Norsk Hydro, one of the world's largest aluminum producers, was hit by a major cyber attack in the early hours of March 19, it was already undergoing a major upheaval: just the day before the ...
3 Ways InsurTech Software Convergence Can Boost Customer Service and Business Growth
There's been a huge surge in software development aimed at improving efficiency across the insurance value chain. In fact, InsurTech is now a half-billion-dollar industry, expected to top $1.1 ...
Agile or Waterfall: Which Deployment Makes the Most Sense for Insurance Carriers?
The insurance industry is in the midst of a complete technological transformation, and fierce market competition is increasingly driving the importance of getting IT initiatives to market as fast as ...
Extreme Weather Makes Weather Trackers Valuable to Insurers, Banks, Commodity Traders
Every uptick in wind speed along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline is of enormous interest to Mike Eilts. The senior vice president for weather at DTN, a Minnesota-based analytics firm, knows that an ...