Insurance

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Operating under the radar in Rhode Island since 2017, the company has launched in Arizona with an eye toward more.

Almost $87 billion will have been paid in improper or fraudulent supplemental unemployment insurance claims by the time the program expires in September, according to the report from the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee on Wednesday.

A $5 billion grant program in the infrastructure bill calls for utilities to harden power lines, including by taking them off of towers and burying them underground, but that option may be a poor fit for the Gulf Coast’s topography. It’s also expensive.

SynchronoSure has three insurance products available in 48 states, and will be adding new products over the next 60 days. GigBOP, a low-end property/casualty product for the gig economy and small business accounts; a trucking general liability product designed to protect the office and garage operations for small trucking companies; and a recently announced excess liability product.

Victims’ lawyers, concerned that Century may claim it can’t pay abuse victims, argue that a related Chubb subsidiary, Insurance Company of North America, known as INA, is also on the hook because it insured the Boy Scouts until about 1996. Chubb argues that INA turned over those policies to Century during a restructuring that year.

There were about 12 funding rounds in the insurtech sector in August 2021, according to a review by Digital Insurance and with data from Crunchbase.

General Manager Amrish Singh on how the company maintains a distinct strategy from the insurance business.

Carriers, pressed by lower expense insurtech models that emphasize direct-to-consumer engagement and new, rich data sources, are beginning to encounter a bifurcation of risk and client characteristics.

DealerPolicy, which functions as an insurance agency in the lower 48 states, connects car buyers with insurance quotes.