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In-depth: Ageing Asia

Key points Over the past 50 years, life expectancy at birth across OECD countries is more than 10 years higher than it was in 1970. In China the almost 1 billion strong working age...

In-depth: Employee Benefits in Asia, opportunity for insurers

This article explores how insurers that offer flexible products can benefit at a time when many employers, in light of global financial, political and health developments, are ...

Post-mortem of on-demand insurance, or, renaissance with COVID-19 from the insurtechhand ?

First of all, we must ask ourselves what is on-demandinsurance? On-demandinsurance or “insurance ondemand” or “safe switch”is a concept born several years...

Post-mortem del seguro on-demand, o renacimiento con el COVID-19 de la mano de las Insurtech?

Ante todo, nos debemos preguntar ¿qué es un seguro on-demand? El seguro “on-demand” o “seguro a demanda” o “seguro switch” es un concepto nacido hace varios años con...

ICLAM 2019: The Digital Insurer MedTech Panel

Health-related data for better insurance products

Product platforms reimagined Moving beyond financial protection through health-centred design When it comes to health, the insurance conversation with customers typically starts ...

China In-Depth: Ageing Asia

Annuities and retiree care for an ageing Asia Longer lifespans are generally seen as a positive outcome of economic growth. Yet, the Chinese face the double challenge of rising ...

Earthquake detection, mitigation and insurance

Asia is no stranger to natural catastrophes. Of all those that affect the continent, earthquakes are the most destructive and the deadliest. An infamous earthquake in 2008 in ...

Partnering with InsurTechs to face the challenge of Mobility as a Service

Throughout history, humans have been on the move, and they found ways to handle the associated risks. Since the earliest forms of mobility protection – possibly marine insurance ...

Redefining Insurance for the Gig Economy

To Uber is To Disrupt Uber has achieved that rare and special distinction of becoming a verb. To “Uber” has replaced to “hail” in the same way that Hoover replaced vacuum ...

The workforce is changing. Can insurance keep up in the Gig Economy era?

The gig economy, a product of our ongoing digital disruption era, is one of the biggest trends to affect the workforce in the last decade as it really took off in the recession ...

Gig Economy

China In-Depth: Ecosystems with life/health

Although Ping An and Zhong An are widely recognised for their ability to establish end-to-end operations and move upstream to secure new distribution channels, these efforts have ...

Insurance Strategy: From Digital Wellness to Digital Therapeutics

In this article, The Digital Insurer’s Andrew Dart discusses the emergence of Digital Therapeutics. He shows how, with its targeted disease focus and emphasis of clinically ...

The Digital Insurer Webinar Infographic: New solutions for prevention and management of diabetes and other chronic diseases

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TDI TALKS! WITH ABHISHEK SHAH AND PRAYAT SHAH FROM WELLTHY THERAPEUTICS

15 minutes live with Abhishek Shah and Prayat Shah from Wellthy Therapeutics who share their views on how digital therapeutics like Wellthy are helping to prevent and reduce the ...

TDI Talks! With Dustin Yoder, CEO @ Sureify

15 minutes live with Dustin Yoder who talks about the digital transformation of life insurance.

TDI Webinar Mar 2018 – Health Technology & Impact on Insurance

The Health Technology & Impact on Insurance webinar was held on 21 March 2018. The agenda includes: Framing Health Tech Connecting the Healthcare Value Chain How Insurers can ...

HealthTech: What’s the diagnosis for insurers?

By Dr Rebecca Pope, Senior Data Scientist, KPMG UK There is no doubt that HealthTech applications using machine learning, a subfield of AI, have huge potential to improve ...

China Spotlight: The drive for autonomous commercial vehicles

While the debate over autonomous driving and the role of telematics continues, one sector will prove crucial as insurers seek a business model for a driverless future – ...

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – Healix

Thank you, Healix! On 19th September 2017 the final presentations for The Digital Insurer Insurance Innovation Awards were held. In this unique format four finalists presented ...

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – HDI Sigorta

Thank you, HDI Sigorta! On 19th September 2017 the final presentations for The Digital Insurer Insurance Innovation Awards were held. In this unique format four finalists presented...

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Insurance Innovation Award 2017 – Zurich

Thank you, Zurich! On 19th September 2017 the final presentations for The Digital Insurer Insurance Innovation Awards were held. In this unique format four finalists presented ...

Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Start Up InsurTech Award 2017 – CBien

Thank you, CBien! On 19th September 2017 the final presentations for The Digital Insurer Startup InsurTech Awards were held. In this unique format four finalists presented online ...

TDI Webinar Sep 2017 – The On Demand/Instant Insurance Proposition

The The On Demand/Instant Insurance Proposition webinar was held on 7 September 2017. The agenda includes: Connecting with the on-demand customer How to find the right customer ...

Customers love the choice with On-Demand insurance

Hey Dad, can I borrow your car? This is the title of an article I posted 18 months ago in December 2015. It was my first interview with Freddy Macnamara, the founder and CEO of ...

Rick’s article examines on-demand from the broader definition and covers the user experience

Lemonade are Live. Insurance will never be the same again!

I trust you, you trust me Insurance didn’t start out bad. When you look back in history, there are many examples of civilisations and societies supporting each other. ...

This week's article from InsurTech Weekly is Lemonade are here - And Insurance will never be the same again!. Rick Huckstep leads The Digital Insurer in Europe and produces Insurtech Weekly.

“Hey Dad, can I borrow your car?”

We’ve all been there. Times when the easiest and most convenient way to get to from A to B is to borrow someone else’s car. Except that it hasn’t been easy or convenient,...

Trōv – an entirely new way to insure the things people treasure

The future for personal lines insurance is all about “engagement”. When insurance becomes a lifestyle choice, then consumer perception will change. And so will their behaviour ...

BenefitVault show Fintech & innovation does not have to be disruptive!

Prior to World War 2, few Americans had health insurance. For those that did, the majority of policies only offered limited cover for hospital rooms, board and ancillary services....

MicroEnsure – providing cover for under-insured mass markets in Africa

Africa! A continent that occupies one fifth of the world’s land mass and home to over 1 billion people, half of them under the age of 20. A continent of 54 sovereign states, well...

Zenefits – free to use HR software that’s disrupting health insurance

About a week ago, as I was going through my daily routine of catching up on news stories and shifting through numerous blog posts, I was drawn to the article by Jim Bruene on ...

8th Annual Health Insurance Asia: 17-20 June 2014 @ Singapore

The Digital Insurer is pleased to be speaking at this conference on the subject of ‘Digital Thinking’ to transform individual health insurance. The Digital Insurer will...

AIA Vitality partners with Virgin Active, Grab and Singtel

AIA Vitality’s solution has expanded its fitness experiences for users. AIA Singapore announced enhancements to its AIA Vitality program with the inclusion of Virgin Ac...

Airsurety – Instant travel life insurance

Airsurety is a New York based startup focusing on accidental deaths that take place during air travel and offers affordable, instant and easy to purchase term life insurance ...

Accenture: Life insurance is a dying business. Can technology revive it?

Article Synopsis : This blog looks at what needs to be done to get European consumers buying life insurance. People are not buying it, and this is particularly true for ...

Allianz Risk Barometer, Top Business Risks for 2018

Article Synopsis : This report from Allianz identifies and discusses the most important corporate perils for the year ahead and beyond, based on a survey of more than 1,900 risk ...

Applied Systems and Zurich announce motor partnership

Zurich Insurance and Applied Systems have entered into a technology-based motor insurance distribution partnership which will allow Zurich to connect its Insurer Hosted Prici...

Assurant Invests in Mojio to Explore Digital Protection and Support Solutions for Vehicle Owners and Partners

Assurant, Inc is partnering with Mojo, a technology platform and SaaS provider for connected cars to explore digital protection and support solutions for vehicle owners and a...

Avibra app integrates well-being and life insurance

Launched in 2019 by Yogesh Shetty, the Avibra app offers a solution that fully integrates both everyday well-being and life insurance protecti...

Avinew, the InsurTech Company for the Age of Autonomous Vehicles, Raises $5 Million in Seed Funding Led by Crosscut

Avinew a Calif.based Insurtech startup specializing in insuring autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles has announced the raising of $5M in seed funding.

Avinew is des...

Avinew, the InsurTech Company for the Age of Autonomous Vehicles, Raises $5 Million in Seed Funding Led by Crosscut

AXA XL: COVID-19; how insurance can help in the medical fight against the pandemic

Executive summary : In the fight against COVID-19, the search for a vaccine is a major international effort. In addition to trying to find a vaccine for the virus, drug companies ...

AXA Invests in DabaDoc

In Africa, AXA has invested an undisclosed sum in a Morrocan healthtech platform called Dabadoc. The investment will help Dabadoc to enhance its footprint in its existing geo...

AXA pay as you Grab – First usage-based insurance for private hire car drivers

Traditional commercial auto insurance has never been fair to low-mileage part-time drivers as they have to pay a fixed premium no matter how much th...

BCG: How health insurers can capitalise on a changing global market

Executive summary : Even before the COVID-19 crisis hit, health insurers worldwide were struggling to keep pace with extremely rapid changes in the industry, including tighter ...

BCG: Reinventing Life Insurance Agency Distribution Globally

Article Synopsis : This report from Boston Consulting Group and Morgan Stanley Research examines the future of life insurance distribution and the role of agencies – and ...

Back Me Up – App-based and on-demand

Back Me Up is a subsidiary of Ageas Insurance, providing usage based property insurance for millennials, irrespective of time and place.

Essentially, the core differen...

Bajaj Allianz launches first cyber insurance cover

Bajaj Allianz has launched first of its kind cyber crime insurance for individuals called Individual Cyber Safe policy. The policy is positioned for towards those cy...

Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: A Systematic Review, MDPI

Article Synopsis : [google-translator] Blockchain has come a long way since it was associated only with Bitcoin. It has been a target for insurtech applications outside financial...

BigIns – Tailored health insurance in China

BigIns is a Shanghai based broker that is targeting the health and life segment with tailored policies distribut...

BIMA distributes microinsurance through mobile operators

Blink to Strengthen Canadian Foothold with TuGo Partnership

Blink has partnered with TuGo to boost their travel insurance proposition by offering tailor-made travel solutions to its customers. The solution is billed as Realtime Flight...

Bought By Many launches travel insurance product

In Europe, Bought By Many has launched an Urgent Medical Travel Insurance policy specifically tailored for people suffering from serious health issues.

Kasko2Go Pitch – LIVEFEST 2019 Europe Startup InsurTech Award Winner

Watch Genadi Man, CEO, Kasko2Go talk about usage-based pricing model for Motor Insurance using AI and Big Data, keeping customers as their prime focus. Kasko2Go was the Winner of...

By Miles – On-Demand Insurance Company Raises £5m Series A

By Miles is a UK insurtech providing pay-per-mile car insurance targeting motorists who drive infrequently. A matchbox-sized black box device called ‘Miles Tracker’ ...

By Miles – Pay-per-mile car insurance

By Miles is a UK based startup that offers pay-per-mile car insurance using a black box and mobile app. By Miles members just pay a small subscription fee t...

Car2Go car sharing and insurance

Car2Go is a German car rental company which is a subsidiary of Daimler AG providing carsharing services in urban areas in Europe, North America, ...

China Life – Partnering with on-demand startups in China

The on-demand economy has not gone unnoticed by China Life and like other established insurers, it is keen to associate itself with winners in this space. In this case, throu...

Chubb launches enhanced TankSafe system for brokers

In the US, Chubb has launched a technology platform called TankSafe for brokers in the management of commercial underground and above ground storage tank insurance. The platf...

Chubb Partners With Hartford Steam Boiler to Deploy Innovative Internet of Things Sensors in Homes and Businesses

Chubb in partnership with Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) Inspection and Insurance Company (a unit of Munich Re) are installing IOT based technology in the homes and businesses o...

Tom Bobrowski from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018

Watch Tom Bobrowski from The Digital Insurer speak @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about the digital business model of Trov as ...

Chubb reveals new cybersecurity app for commercial clients

To protect US and Canadian commercial enterprises during cyber breach, Chubb launched a new Cyber Alert mobile application designed to give customers rapid incident response ...

Simon Phipps from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018

Watch Simon Phipps from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about PingAn as Global challenger based on ...

Digital Microinsurance – Reaching new insurance consumers panel session @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018

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Richard Leftley from MicroEnsure speaks @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Digital Microinsurance – Reaching new insurance consumers

Watch Richard Leftley from MicroEnsure speak @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Digital Microinsurance – Reaching new insurance consumers about bringing simple insurance ...

Ezekiel Macharia from Kenbright speaks @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Digital Microinsurance – Reaching new insurance consumers

Watch Ezekiel Macharia from Kenbright speak @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Digital Microinsurance – Reaching new insurance consumers about the role of product development...

Katharine Pulvermacher from Microinsurance Network speaks @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Digital Microinsurance – Reaching new ins...

Watch Katharine Pulvermacher from Microinsurance Network speak @ Africa LIVEFEST 2018 panel session -Digital Microinsurance – Reaching new insurance consumers about ...

CoverNow – Mobile delivered Insurance and Health services

Hepstar Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 Africa InsurTech Startup Awards

Watch Brett Dyason, Co-founder, Hepstar talk about a travel insurance distribution platform using data analytics, behavioral science, machine learning, and content aggregation. ...

Inclusivity Solutions Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 Africa InsurTech Startup Awards

Watch Jeremy Leach, Founder & CEO, Inclusivity Solutions talk about a microinsurance platform via mobile and creating inclusive digital insurance markets. Inclusivity ...

Cuvva – Mobile App for Instant Car Insurance

China Commercial Health Insurance White Paper

Article Synopsis : China’s got a problem with its health and it knows it. This paper says the commercial health insurance market is about to explode as a result of increasing ...

CXA – Asia’s first insurance and wellness marketplace

Cytegic and S-RM aim to help incumbents react to cyber threats more effectively

Cytegic, an automated cyber risk management platform, and S-RM Intelligence & Risk Consulting have announced a strategic partnership to leverage Cytegic’s rapid cyb...

Daimler Financial Services continues to trail blaze mobility-on-demand for global consumers and smart cities

Daimler Financial Services and its portfolio of products and on-demand services are shaping the cities through predictive mobility. The company h...

MICROENSURE Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 African Insurance Innovation Awards

Watch Stephen Cartwright, Commercial Director, MicroEnsure talk about developing easy to understand insurance products for microinsurance, promoting digital claims and using ...

Meerkat Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 African Insurance Innovation Awards

Watch David O’Brien, Founder & Managing Director, Meerkat talk about how Meerkat is helping clients to regain control via Debt Counselling and reducing cost through the ...

Rosaline Chow Koo from CXA speak @ Platforms & Eco-systems – The Future of Insurance in Asia? panel session – Asia & ANZ ...

Watch Rosaline Chow Koo from CXA speak @ Platforms & Eco-systems – The Future of Insurance in Asia? panel session – Asia & ANZ LIVEFEST 2018 about building an ...

Digital Risks – Shaking up business insurance

Digital Risks is a rareity amongst InsurTechs as it focuses solely on the needs of digital businesses. Specifically, Digital Risks offers coverage against the rising threat o...

Wesurance Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 ASIAN & ANZ InsurTech Startup Awards

Watch Natalie Fong, Co-Founder & COO, Wesurance talk about developing smart insurance for mobile age to be able to get covered immediately with just a few clicks. ...

Cognitive document processing services for supplemental health insurance

Article Synopsis : The supplemental health insurance market faces key challenges and this is largely due to the volume of paperwork it still has to process. Policy submission, ...

Muang Thai Life Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 ASIA & ANZ Insurance Innovation Awards

Watch Nadia Suttikulpanich, Head of Fuchsia Innovation Center, Muang Thai Life talk about their program called BaoWan BetterCare-the first ever dynamic pricing insurance for ...

HSBC Insurance Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 ASIA & ANZ Insurance Innovation Awards

Watch Ken Tang, Head of Product Development, HSBC Insurance talk about HSBC Cancer term protector- the first digital & online all in one product to offer cancer and life ...

PolicyBazaar Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 ASIA & ANZ Insurance Innovation Awards

Watch Ashish Gupta, Chief Technology Officer, PolicyBazaar talk about Self-Inspection Video Service on Android & iOS platform to solve the problem of renewals of expired motor ...

Farmers Edge and Fairfax Brasil deliver data-driven crop insurance

Farmers Edge, a digital agriculture ecosystem provider, has partnered with Fairfax Brasil to develop bespoke data-driven crop insurance solution for growers in Brazil. The pl...

Farmers Insurance – On-demand roadside assistance

US based Farmers Insurance has introduced a new app in partnership with roadside assistance startup Honk. Using the app, Farmer’s policy holders can signal the need for assis...

TrackActive Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 European InsurTech Startup Awards

Watch Ian Prangley, Co-Founder & Health Director, TrackActive talk about empowering people to take care of their musculoskeletal health by optimizing a ...

Flock – Pay as you fly Drone insurance

Allianz and Flock, a UK based InsurTech, are set to launch the first pay-as-you fly drone insurance later this year for the UK market. The coverage can be tailored to each fl...

FloodFlash an InsurTech startup focused on properties at risk of flooding raises £1.9m seed

FloodFlash is a London-based startup specialising in flood insurance. Founded in 2017 and was developed by a team that spent decades by modelling and structuring of parametri...

Paul Prendergast from Blink speaks @ Data & Analytics – How to create and extract value panel session – Europe LIVEFEST 2018

Watch Paul Prendergast from Blink speak @ Data & Analytics – How to create and extract value panel session – Europe LIVEFEST 2018 about how Blink is using a different ...

Allianz Germany Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 European Insurance Innovation Awards

Watch Henriette Goetze, Head of Markets & Strategy, Allianz Germany talk about their product using web-based fitness platform motivating customers to adopt a healthy and ...

PZU Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 European Insurance Innovation Awards

Watch Marcin Kurczab, Director of the Innovation Lab, PZU talk about how they are doing innovations in different products using Big Data and digitalization. PZU was the winner of ...

Gen Re and PAI Health partner to improve customer cardiorespiratory health

Jeff Berezny from Trov speaks @ Digital Transformation – Urgent or Too Late? panel session – North America LIVEFEST 2018

Watch Jeff Berezny from Trov speaks @ Digital Transformation – Urgent or Too Late? panel session – North America LIVEFEST 2018 about how Trov became the world’s ...

Generali partners with Blink in Asia

In Hong Kong, Generali has partnered with Blink, a subsidiary of CPP Group. The partnership will help Generali’s strategic reinsurance solution team to expand its offerings b...

Dustin Yoder from Sureify speaks @ Digital Transformation – Urgent or Too Late? panel session – North America LIVEFEST 2018

Watch Dustin Yoder from Sureify share his thoughts and insights @ Digital Transformation – Urgent or Too Late? panel session – North America LIVEFEST 2018 on the ...

The Digital Insurer Webinar: The On Demand/Instant Insurance Proposition

Listen to the webinar replay Webinar Statistics Click here for all the Webinar Statistics Event Materials View the slides here Join us for this webinar and listen to an ...

CoverWallet Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 North America InsurTech Startup Awards

Watch Rashmi Melgiri, Co-founder, CoverWallet talk about how CoverWallet make it easier for SME’s to understand, buy and manage their insurance coverage. CoverWallet was a ...

Gojek launches GoSure digital insurance service

Gojek which is an Indonesian ride-hailing app, has collaborated with InsurTech called PasarPolis to launch a digital insurance solution for its users. The range of offerings ...

The Connected Car – The Future of Auto Insurance panel session @ North America LIVEFEST 2018

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Matteo Carbone from IoT Insurance Observatory speaks @ Connected Car – The Future of Auto Insurance panel session – North America L...

Watch Matteo Carbone from IoT Insurance Observatory share his insights @ Connected Car – The Future of Auto Insurance panel session – North America LIVEFEST 2018 about ...

Great Eastern launches three-generation critical illness term plan

Great Eastern Singapore has launched GREAT Family Care, a critical illness term plan that protects three generations in a family within a single policy. The solution comes at...

Halodoc completes strategic funding round, as it continues to expand portfolio of services

Halodoc was founded in 2017 in Indonesia with an aim to merge two separate business units which catered to teleconsultation with healthcare professionals and pharmacy deliver...

TDI Talks! With Abhishek Shah and Prayat Shah from Wellthy Therapeutics

Abhishek Shah and Prayat Shah from Wellthy Therapeutics share their views on how digital therapeutics like Wellthy Therapeutics are helping to prevent and reduce the impact of ...

TDI Talks! With Dustin Yoder, CEO @ Sureify

15 minutes live with Dustin Yoder who talks about the digital transformation of life insurance.

Health Insurance Innovation Summit

Get the latest insights on the technologies and innovations transforming our industry. 20+ leading experts, leaders and innovators reveal cutting edge health insurance innovations ...

TDI Webinar, March 2018 – Health Technology & Impact on Insurance

The Health Technology & Impact on Insurance webinar was held on 21 March 2018. The agenda includes: Framing Health Tech Connecting the Healthcare Value Chain How Insurers can ...

Hixme – Rebuilding benefits from the bottom up

Hixme is trying to disrupt the traditional employer health benefits model. Launched in 2013, Hixme helps employers transition to a private benefit exchange, ultimately libera...

Humana and Validic partner to boost wellness through wearables

Humana Inc, a wellness company, and Validic, a health data solution provider, have teamed up to boost device connectivity and the use of data in Humana’s Go365 wellness...

TDI Webinar Sep, 2017 -The On Demand/Instant Insurance Proposition

The The On Demand/Instant Insurance Proposition webinar was held on 7 September 2017. The agenda includes: Connecting with the on-demand customer How to find the right customer ...

Insurancebox – Niche and on-demand

Insurancebox is a Shanghai-based InsurTech that has a range of niche and on-demand insurance products. Through partnering with several third party internet portals, Insurance...

EY – NextWave Insurance: life insurance and retirement

Executive summary : A complex mix of economic, technological, competitive and societal trends have the global life insurance and retirement industry facing an inflection point. ...

8th Annual Health Insurance Asia

The Digital Insurer is pleased to be speaking at this conference on the subject of ‘Digital Thinking’ to transform individual health insurance. The Digital Insurer will make a ...

InsurTech Lami launches digital car insurance platform in Kenya

InsurTech Lami has launched a new application called Griffin Motor App targeting over 1 million drivers in Kenya.

Drivers will be able to buy car insurance in a few cl...

Intact invests in self-driving startup

Intact Financial has partnered with Voyage which is a self-driving car startup which runs its taxis in The Villages in Florida, one of the larges...

JLT Re partners with InsurTech for Auto Insurance MGA Pact

JLT Re North America has partnered with Pact Insurance, a personal auto insurtech company that allows can buy and manage their car insurance comp...

League – Revolutionising employee benefits

League is a new digital alternative to traditional health insurance that connects employers and employees to a comprehensive network of health services and benefits, giving t...

Life360 and Allstate Form Strategic Relationship to Transform Car Insurance and Personal Transportation

Life360 has partnered with Allstate to provide millions of users with insights into their driving behavior and personalized insurance offers. Alt...

London startup Pluto aims to simplify travel insurance purchase and claims

Pluto is a UK-based travel insurance startup that aims to help travellers get most out of their trips. It providers travellers hassle-free and transparently priced travel ins...

Lumity – Simplifying complex benefits decisions

Lumity is a U.S based benefits analytics platform that helps businesses find the right health benefit plan for their employees by analyzing usage and performance data. Lumity...

Marsh enables ‘proof of insurance’ for gig workers

Marsh has partnered with a data security platform, ‘Evident’, to develop a first-of-its-kind blockchain based verification solution for its sharing and gig economy clients. T...

Hopping Aboard the Sharing Economy

Article Synopsis : Based on interviews with more than 25 founders and CEOs of sharing-economy startups across the globe and a survey of over 3,500 consumers in the US, India and ...

Marsh launch cyber risk and data breach insurance policy

Marsh launched a cyber insurance called as CyberShield cyber risk and data breach insurance policy for medium-sized to large organisations. The policy is available outside US...

How auto insurance can adapt to changing risks

Article Synopsis : Travelers public policy division The Travelers Institute has released a white paper called Insuring Autonomy: How auto insurance can adapt to changing risks, ...

IBM: Why aren’t millennials buying life insurance?

Executive summary : Confusing and complicated policies stymie young consumers There’s a popular expression these days: “Millennials killed [fill in the blank].” Mortgages, ...

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Healthcare Predictions

Article Synopsis : This presentation from IDC researchers Cynthia Burghard and Lynne Dunbrack gives us ten predictions for the global healthcare industry, with three points of ...

MicroEnsure Suraksha – India’s first mass market free insurance product

IFC: How Insurtech Can Close the Protection Gap in Emerging Markets

Article Synopsis : Life insurance has low penetration in the emerging market, but insurtech will be particularly significant in closing the ‘protection gap’. Insurance ...

iii: Background on: microinsurance and emerging markets

Executive summary : A growing number of insurers are tapping into markets in developing countries through microinsurance projects, which provide low-cost insurance to individuals ...

MSIG’s industry-first video interaction technology brings convenience and speed to motor claims process

In Singapore, MSIG has teamed up with Merimen and Wavecell to co-innovate a video chat survey to speed up the motor claims process. The video is called TrueSight Interactive ...

Muang Thai Life Rethinking Health Insurance

Muang Thai Life (MTL) has launched a health/wellness programme that focuses on providing Thai customers with more involved healthcare support than traditional health insuranc...

Neosurance – Contextual insurance through push notification

Italy based Neosurance has created a platform which enables insurers to deliver scenario based tailored policies. Neosurance provides a virtual sales agent for insurers that ...

Infomineo : Microinsurance sector : An overview of the market development and distribution strategies in Africa

Executive summary : Home to more than 700 million low-income citizens, Africa is considered a major market for micro-financial offerings, including microinsurance. According to the...

NZ InsurTech JRNY partners up with NTUC Income

In Singapore, NTUC Income has partnered with NZ-based JRNY to develop an AI insurance agent. The project is at a nascent stage and will be completed in four months.

Th...

NZ InsurTech JRNY partners up with NTUC Income

PICC’s Virtual Product Insurance

Ping An Announces AI-Driven Car Insurance Claims Processor

Ping An’s has launched a mobile app that allows drivers to make claims and get compensation deducted from a dynamic credit quota, which is ...

Library: Deloitte – How to reinvent the small-business insurance market for a digital economy

October 2022 featured report: This Deloitte report suggests ways in which the industry could reinvent the small business insurance market as we increasingly embrace the digital ...

Prudential powers up PRUWorks for SMEs with HælthTech technology

In HK, Prudential has entered into a regional agreement with HælthTech, a provider of technology solutions and operating platforms for insurers. PRU leverages HælthTech’s OMN...

Root Insurance Closes $51 Million Investment to Expand Customized Auto Insurance

Root Insurance announced its closing of $51mn Series C funding round led by RedPoint Ventures. The company is known for incorporating individual ...

SkyWatch.AI Announces New Partnerships with Aviation Brokers

SkyWatch.AI is a data analytics platform which offers drone pilots on-demand insurance solutions. The platform leverages machine learning to assess risk and mitigate it real-...