Michael Shashoua is Senior Editor at Digital Insurance. He joined the site in April 2022, after working as a marketing communications writer specializing in financial technology and data management for companies including GoldenSource, FIS, Thomson Reuters, Rimes, Bloomberg, DTCC and Vested. Previous to this, he edited Inside Reference Data at Incisive Media (now Infopro Digital) for five years and deputy edited WatersTechnology at Incisive. He also covered financial technology for Global Investment Technology until 2009. His interests include comedy, podcasting, music, movies and arts and entertainment in general.
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Swiss Re Institute finds growing flood losses, underinsured homeowners.
September 8 -
Update adds features for searching multiple insurers and their commercial coverage offerings.
September 7 -
Cargo supply chain insurer offers parametric event coverage.
September 6 -
Ukrainian pet insurance startup thrives in challenging conditions.
September 2 -
The upgrade to 5G mobile technology has an overlooked side effect – sunsetting the older generation mobile connectivity, which can affect some insurance-related technologies.
August 31 -
Digital Insurance spoke with Anshuman Prasad, global head of risk analytics at CRISIL, a risk advisory firm.
August 22 -
Insurer adds options to property and general liability coverages
August 18 -
Digital Insurance spoke with Alec Miloslavsky, founder and CEO of EIS
August 15 -
Built out of academic law research, Optimalex draws on litigation and settlement data to reach figures that a claimant will accept as fair.
August 10 -
Digital Insurance spoke with Matt Berman, president of Foresters Financial U.S.
August 10 -
NoCell application lowers incidents and helps keep coverage rates under control
August 8 -
Tech startups, trucking owner-operators and big insurance carriers alike are putting systems in place to protect cargo and cover special circumstances.
August 8 -
Program also offers sensors for property, telematics and heavy equipment.
August 4 -
Digital Insurance spoke with Ted Phillips, vice president of the Distribution Digital Center of Excellence at Sun Life
August 4 -
Tensorflight offers next generation displays of property data gathered with new imaging techniques to determine building replacement costs for insurers
July 29 -
Rent costs are rising, and insurtechs providing security deposit insurance offer a way for consumers to defray costs.
July 26 -
The time is ripe for the U.K. microservices-based digital underwriting platform to expand on successes to date in its market
July 25 -
Insurers are partnering with smart home technology monitoring companies on funding, marketing and distribution. These alliances are creating an untapped data resource with many applications.
July 21 -
AI provider makes sense of conflicting evidence in auto accident claims for top insurers
July 19 -
Business intelligence platform debuts with views of ROI from several insurance technologies
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