Having first focused on pet insurance, the seven-year-old firm has since expanded into parcel, fire, home and health products. It also insures digital assets from hacking and malware and theft.

The confluence of the right tech, models, and curated property data empowers the underwriter – and insurers at scale – to better write and manage wildfire risk.

It can be hard to explain rationally why a digital insurance solution is trusted or not by customers, according to Burr, who is CEO of the iptiQ unit of the insurance company.

US lawmakers on Thursday questioned how new rules for artificial intelligence can protect against the technology's risks without reinforcing the early advantages enjoyed by tech giants such as Microsoft and Google.

The best carriers provide agents with the tools that allow prospective customers the option to shop via chat, text and even in-app communications channels.

Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Acrisure is expected to be valued at well over $20 billion in an initial public offering, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential information.

Coalition and Kin Insurance are named as two of the top fintechs this year.

And more career moves.

Whole swaths of business activity, from sales and marketing to customer operations, are set to become more embedded in software.

The emerging area of connected insurance has the potential to help insurers prevent, mitigate, or lower potential risks relating to severe weather events.

The exuberance surrounding artificial intelligence has driven a lot of capital into a small corner of the market in a very short space of time, and that has implications for tech-heavy ESG funds.

Longtime industry executive Henna Karna joins as entrepreneur-in-residence

Alison Borenstein, director of data science, Assurance IQ, shares three valuable lessons after years of building machine learning technology for agents.

Highlights including VYRD Insurance on smart home water damage detection, Principal Financial Group on claims processing and Travelers' work with ServiceNow.

INZMO announced the launch of NIMO, a ChatGPT-powered chatbot assistant, and more news.

The technologies safeguard insurers' ability to understand historical data and remotely apply those insights to risk modeling and underwriting.

Deepa Soni, EVP and CIO at The Hartford gave the keynote address at DIGIN.

A new report from RingCentral sheds light on how workplaces can balance new talent's demand for more tech with older talent's concerns.

There are other less obvious ways underwriters can use the technology, but one area is field underwriting.