“A string of so-called ‘nuclear’ verdicts, where juries award tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to families of accident victims, have made the financial consequences of those crashes...

Aegon Life Insurance Company has let go of 6,000 insurance agents for the sake of becoming a direct-to-consumer insurer. Bottom Line: the Mumbai-based life insurer will be investing heavily in tech to ease its online interaction...

Church Mutual has partnered with The Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) to provide eligible customers temperature and water sensors connected to a 24/7 monitoring system. This tech is designed to alert customers to...

The UK insurer will be offering a smart connected water leak detector to its customers in an attempt to proactively manage, or better yet, reduce the amount of leaks related claims reported...

John Hancock’s LOFT, aka Lab Of Forward Thinking, aka an innovation lab, is celebrating its official launch in Singapore. Recall: back in 2015, John Hancock launched LOFT in Boston’s “Innovation District,” with the...

The San Fran-based digital commercial broker Embroker announced the public launch of its technology platform. Recall: the startup raised $14.4 million in funding since its get-go to offer small business owners...

Aon will acquire NYC-based cybersecurity specialist Stroz Friedberg as the firm looks to expand its cyber offering, aka bet with certainty on those faced with uncertainty. According to the WSJ, P&C insurer sold an estimated $2...

Simplesurance, a software to cross-sell insurance, which enjoys the backing of Allianz, is now an affiliate in Munich Re Digital Partners, the reinsurer’s innovation lab; joining the likes of on-demand insurance for your...

Canadian digital health and wellness startup League Inc announced it has teamed up with RBC Insurance to sell life and health insurance products; currently in Ontario with plans to expand to US over the...

The insurer moved from a legacy CRM to a Salesforce CRM and is applying Salesforce’s hyped-yet-still-secret artificial intelligence system, Einstein, to information being drawn into the CRM to give its customer service...

Last year MassMutual was reportedly planning to expand its financial learning initiative called Society of Grownups to 10 more cities post a $100 million injection. That was then. This is now. On Friday, the...

After 10 years at the helm, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf steps down willingly; walking away with a $134.1 million package. (Craig David comes to mind). Recall: the bank came under fire for its cross-selling-slash-sales-tactics,...

Indian insurance aggregator Coverfox allows its customers to file an insurance claim without moving an inch. Think: a customer presses a button from a mobile app. A Coverfox rep arrives at...

Though flying cars might still be a distant figment of the future, a majority of Northwest residents believe that self-driving automobiles will soon join other vehicles on the road. But...