MS&AD, Allianz and Axa were among the first to bid for the right to distribute insurance products through banking and financial services company Standard Chartered (SC) in Asia for the next 15 years. SC is...

Activist Carl Icahn supports AIG’s agreement to sell its mortgage insurer United Guaranty to Arch Capital for $3.4 billion possibly because he has bigger fish (cough, shark, cough) to fry.

All-things agency marketing provider ITC announced its plans to support the future of the insurance industry via a one $1,000 scholarship to a current college student who sees a future in insurance. Keyword: one. Fine...

Trump’s favorite health insurer, aka Oscar, revealed its bottom line for the first half of the year. Bottom bottom:$822 average loss per head. Recall why ‘Trump’s favorite’ below.

Digital broker-slash-MGA for renters insurance (for now) Quilt launched in beta mode. See for yourself.     Try for yourself. Zip code 33427. You’re welcome.

San Fran-based Metromile is seeking a Controller; preferably one that can prepare and complete “annual and quarterly NAIC financial statements (Yellow Books) and other statutory financial filings for Metromile”.  Yellow...

Abernite. The company looks to provide guidance to technology companies, insurers and interested third parties on how analytics and data can support growth, innovation and disruption in insurance. #OneToWatch.

Think: Shai Eilat. Lemonade’s Senior Front-end Developer from May 2015 to April 2016. And while we are on the subject of who left, when. Here’s one more. Andrew Sinkov. Lemonade’s Launch Advisor from March 2016 to June 2016. Perhaps the company is nearing launch? Perhaps.

A new study suggests that digital health may not be the best approach to improving the health of seniors and reducing the costs associated with caring for this population. Tell...

Ukrainian telematics provider Raxel Telematics, which calls Axa and Liberty Mutual clients, has partnered with two Singapore-based insurers to offer the country’s first pay-how-you-drive car insurance policies come October. Bottom Line: a dongle coupled with...

San Fran-based Metromile is seeking a Controller; preferably one that can prepare and complete “annual and quarterly NAIC financial statements (Yellow Books) and other statutory financial filings for Metromile”.  Yellow...

Berlin-based Zenefits look-alike HeavenHR announced it has closed €6 million in Series A funding. Thinking of Zenefits, the startup resolved its licensing issues with two more states: South Carolina and Delaware. South Carolina...

AIG is in talks to sell its mortgage insurer United Guaranty to Arch Capital for ~$3.4 billion.

Europe’s first online price comparison and booking platform for the moving industry Buzzmove secured £6 million in a Seed round led by White Mountains Insurance Group. The London-based startup, which was a member of...