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Chief underwriting officer finds ways to do more with technology and coverage of risks.

Having recently increased its market, Roadzen is turning to a SPAC arrangement to fund further expansion plans.

The leader of the company's claims services unit talks about bringing in different points of view to American Family's update of its claims services technology, and retaining the human element of servicing claims.

The New Zealand based life and supplemental health insurer needed to replace an in-house system that couldn't scale. Partners Life implemented the platform in two phases that took more than two years.

Women in Insurance Leadership 2023 honoree finds crowdsourcing approach to insurance product development also has applications for Boston-area charity efforts.

The organization of state insurance regulators will require carriers to provide more data on their securities holdings, including interest and investment classifications.

Guggenheim Partners-backed insurtech is working to make agency business process easier and more responsive.

Consumer advocate notes that insurance regulators' standard for data collection lags regulators of other types of financial services

The use of catastrophe models and of sophisticated AI to make coverage decisions are all under debate.

AI-powered catastrophe and risk models use varied sources, including aerial imagery.

CoverForce, a new insurtech API, has partnered with the ISU network for independent agents to help its members reach new customers.

Bitcoin-denominated life insurer argues against perceptions of volatility, saying it aims to serve only previous crypto investors who are beginning to think about long-term coverage and investment.

High theft risks for Kia and Hyundai cars, and repair cost risks for Teslas, have driven auto insurers to drop or modify coverage of those vehicles, which is forcing more auto policyholders to switch carriers.

Analytics and agent-to-broker communications are becoming more popular applications for cloud data management. Marketing and automation applications haven't yet reached that kind of critical mass. Google and Amazon discuss their cloud services approaches.

The carrier and the payroll services provider are working together to increase the flexibility of workers comp underwriting, based on more up-to-date data.

Co-founders Anthony Marshi and Toby Hung recently secured $2 million in funding for a platform automating cyber insurance coverage focused on medium and large sized businesses.

The chief information and operations officer said the company is working to give customers "seamless pickups" from voice to app to website.

Jim Ryan, who joined State Farm as an innovation executive at the start of 2023, spoke with Digital Insurance about his ideas for how to innovate technology and operations at the carrier, how telematics will continue to change auto coverage, and how tech advances can reduce risk.

Jeff Diem founded the insurtech to fix a problem he encountered as a residential damage contracting estimator: wildly divergent estimates of damage repair costs from contractors and insurance companies.

Digital Insurance spoke with Kieran Stack, head of delivery excellence and insurance operations at Aon.