Insurance

Changes in life insurance products require more than retrofitting legacy technology, insurance technology executives say.

Hippo appoints new chief data officer and several insurtech partnerships, plus more insurance news.

The Governors Highway Safety Association and Cambridge Mobile Telematics' new report suggests advanced predictive analytics to help prevent traffic deaths.

California governor's executive order tasks insurance regulator and other state agencies to make recommendations on mitigating wildfires, insurance affordability and availability, expediting insurance claims and more.

Budget cuts at the federal disaster agency are forcing insurance carriers to rethink underwriting, reinsurance, and catastrophe modeling, and pivot accordingly.

California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara proposes stricter standards for Consumer Watchdog's compensation in representing home insurance policyholders against insurers' rate increase proposals.

According to the CCC's Q3 2025 report, average repair costs increased almost 4 percent.

Ransomware accounted for 60% of large cyber claims for the first half of the year, but frequency dropped 30%.

Insurers lack adequate and accurate data, even finding incorrect death certificates, making it more difficult to assess underwriting risk correctly.

AB 226, still subject to governor's approval, allows likely $1 billion of borrowing to cope with strains on the state's insurer of last resort.

Modernization should never be viewed solely as an IT project.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released safety performance ratings for seven new electric vehicle models.

New law, SB 429, California Wildfire Public Catastrophe Model Act, depends on the state's university system and its resources to check insurers' and regulators' risk modeling.

Flood insurance company Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc.'s shareholders are seeking to raise $368.4 million.

Triage spearheads U.S. expansion plans for London-based insurtech.

According to Capgemini's World Life Insurance Report 2026, 76% of customers expect advanced cloud and data capabilities but only 16% of insurers are capable of delivering.

Many businesses are overlooking the full extent of their climate risk, even after they've experienced the impacts of more extreme weather first-hand.

Community Financial in Syracuse has made its biggest investment ever in an outside company, taking a $37.4 million equity stake in an insurance provider that focuses on the rental housing market.

A look at insurer innovations and strategies affecting auto coverage, affordable insurance options and renewable energy programs.