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03 December 2020

2021 insurance outlook: Accelerating recovery from the pandemic while pivoting to thrive

 

In a recent 2021 insurance outlook, 200 industry leaders weighed in on their companies’ COVID-19 recovery efforts. How can the emerging lessons serve as a ...

16 November 2020

Predictions 2021: Insurers Find Opportunity Amid Chaos

Even before COVID-19 appeared, 2020 was shaping up to be pivotal for the insurance industry. The industry faced low rates, rising mortality, sluggish economies and ...

05 October 2020

Pandemic Economic Uncertainty Could See Insurers Buying, Partnering with Insurtechs

Insurance carriers could increasingly target insurtechs for acquisition and partnerships in the coming months due to pandemic-related economic uncertainty.

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14 September 2020

Triple Threat: Carrier-Insurtech-Agency Partnerships Can Transform Commercial Lines

COVID-19 has changed many things in the insurance industry. Seemingly overnight everyone is working from home and the companies with the best digital customer ...

07 September 2020

ropean insurers expecting COVID-19 to accelerate digital innovation: analysts

A new survey conducted by tech research and advisory firm, Information Services Group, has found that over 90% of European insurers are expecting COVID-19 to ...

29 June 2020

Investors Turn to Usage-Based Insurance Amid Pandemic

Usage-based insurance (UBI) continues to attract funding despite the fall in insurtech investment due to COVID-19. According to a one survey of UK consumers conducted by ...

24 June 2020

Insurtech May Offer Insurers a Route Out of the Pandemic

A recent study has suggested that COVID-19 will act as a catalyst for the industry-wide adoption of new digital initiatives in the insurance industry and that the ...

17 June 2020

Legal Focus: Insurers Must Prepare for Virtual Trials in the Wake of the Pandemic

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual court hearings pose new issues for legal teams and there are steps that insurers should take to prepare for online ...

12 June 2020

How Insurance Can Prepare for the Next Distribution Model

As the COVID-19 crisis evolves, it will continue to affect insurance distribution around the world. Insurers can prepare by building a strategy focused on near- and ...

02 June 2020

Pandemic Stay-at-Home Experience Raises P&C Insurers’ Bar for Delivering Digitally

Significant investments in direct-to-consumer website and mobile design have helped property & casualty insurance companies improve their digital service and ...

01 June 2020

COVID-19 Sparks Unprecedented Increase in Telemedicine

The global coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented increase in the use of telemedicine. With stay at home orders in place to prevent further spread of COVID-19, ...

22 May 2020

Opening the Door to Insurance Carrier Innovation in Post-COVID-19 World

In 2019, it was projected that the insurance industry was on the brink of a revolution in technology innovation. In a post-COVID-19 world, this outlook may be even more ...

12 May 2020

COVID-19 Impact on Insurtech: Considerations for Insurtech Companies, Their Investors and Traditional Insurers

While the COVID-19 crisis has many insurtech players reconsidering their short-term needs and long-term strategies, what has not changed is the insurance industry’s ...

04 May 2020

Insurance Tech Q1 2020

After a decade of digital strides, the insurtech industry is maturing and driving innovation across many insurance sectors. COVID-19 has put investor optimism and ...

30 April 2020

As Coronavirus Strikes, Crucial Data In Electronic Health Records Hard To Harvest

Over the past decade, federal officials have made efforts to move from paper to electronic health records ("EHRs"), expecting to harness volumes of medical data to ...

27 April 2020

US Insurance Market Trends During the Pandemic

Insurtech CEO shares insights on how the industry is managing risk and safeguarding consumers in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.

Read the full interview here.

17 April 2020

Global InsurTech Market to Be Worth $10.14bn by 2025 as Traditional Insurers Embrace Innovation

While the global insurtech market was valued at $5.48bn in 2019, new research has suggested that figure could jump to $10.14bn by 2025, representing a compound annual ...

17 April 2020

COVID-19 To Reduce (Re)insurers’ Insurtech Capital Allocation

The coronavirus crisis is likely to lead insurers and reinsurers to pull back on insurtech investments, both in terms of the number of deals and size of ...

16 April 2020

Singapore: InsurTech Offers Complimentary Coverage for Frontline Medical Workers

InsurTech PolicyPal has collaborated with FinTech firms Revolut and StashAway to launch a new programme called 'Medical Energizer' which offers insurance, financial and ...

08 April 2020

Analysis on Impact of COVID-19-InsurTech Market 2019-2023 | Influence of Digitization to Boost Growth

One report has been monitoring the insurtech market and it is poised to grow by USD 15.63 billion during 2019-2023. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding ...

31 March 2020

The Impact of Coronavirus on the Insurtech Scene

What does this global pandemic mean for the insurtechs? Potential consequences are that some of the insurtechs in a very early stage, might struggle because of less ...

31 March 2020

6 InsurTechs Helping Gig Economy Workers During the Pandemic

As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, many startups and digital-only insurance providers are finding ways to support customers as well as non-customers during the crisis, ...

30 March 2020

Insurtech wefox Launches Broker Platform Amid COVID-19 Concerns

Berlin-based insurtech firm wefox Group has announced the launch of a new technology platform, which will be made available to brokers for free amid concerns that the ...

27 March 2020

RiskGenius launches COVID-19 risk checklist

RiskGenius, an insurtech using artificial intelligence to evaluate emerging risks across insurance portfolios, has released a checklist of potential coverage issues ...

27 March 2020

The impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the insurance industry. What does this mean for the insurtech startups?

The effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been felt in the global economy, and also for startups. This is potentially problematic for those that are underfunded , as ...

27 March 2020

How insurers can use big data to manage the COVID-19 pandemic

To take advantage of big data technology, insurance managers and underwriters need to first understand how to leverage its power in supporting their specific ...

25 March 2020

Willis Towers Watson launches new COVID-19 tracking feature

Willis Towers Watson has introduced a new risk-and-analytics feature that enables risk managers to assess their coronavirus (COVID-19) property exposure in real-time, ...

25 March 2020

Ping An screening system identifies 1,600 coronavirus cases

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. has announced that its smart audio screening system has successfully identified more than 1,600 suspected cases of ...

25 March 2020

Guy Carpenter Partners with RiskGenius to Expand Silent Cyber Analysis

Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Co. has entered into a strategic relationship with RiskGenius, an insurtech firm that utilizes AI technology to evaluate emerging ...

24 March 2020

The InsurTech Response to COVID-19

InsurTech companies and insurance technologists are confronting the challenges and business process changes required to keep operations running during this crisis. Some ...

20 March 2020

Zywave rolls out coronavirus resource center

Zywave, an insurtech provider, has launched a new online library for insurance professionals, which offers access to free compliance, HR, and employee content and ...

19 March 2020

Future InsurTech Venture Financings Could Face a Coronavirus Slowdown

While InsurTech venture capital financings already in the pipeline appear to be going forward, the likelihood of future deals could be uncertain in light of the ...

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