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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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
July 18 -
Talkdesk survey of customer experience professionals points out stumbling blocks to AI implementation
July 15 -
The professional employee organization had the solution provider’s tech up and running in a couple hours
July 14 -
Quantstamp incubated the new insurtech with backing from Munich Re and SOMPO Light Vortex.
July 12 -
Digital Insurance spoke with Sherriff Balogun, head of platform transformation at MassMutual.
July 11 -
Several insurtechs considered or used special purpose acquisition companies, a method of going public, in 2020 and 2021, but the results have been lacking.
July 7 -
Startup pursues mission of accurately underwriting life insurance, getting more of the public to get policies.
July 6 -
Digital Insurance spoke with Rich Gilbert, CIO and chief transformation officer at Aflac
July 5 -
The IMA Labs arm of IMA Financial Group is selective in its choices of insurtechs to back, with rigorous evaluations
June 30 -
Drivers who dropped coverage or were underinsured can get more choices of carriers and levels of coverage.
June 27 -
Communication between business and IT teams is the core of modernization for the insurer.
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