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Insurance companies are trying to meet consumers' digital needs faster by partnering with insurtech startups, say carrier CEOs at industry event.

The Malawi, Africa, insurer is aiming to improve policyholders' driving behavior with telematics product.

Accenture research says emerging consumer group focusing on digital interaction with insurers provides market opportunity.

Chris Du Bois has been with the company since 2010.

Telematics will be the leading use case in the insurance industry while remote health monitoring will see the greatest investment in healthcare, study finds.

The SmartDeviceLink Consortium’s goal is to promote more choice in how smartphones get connected to in-vehicle technologies like dashboard displays and voice recognition, and in other programming,

Study indicates organizations are moving ahead with IoT initiatives and investing in technology to support IoT deployments.

The more affordable VR devices will continue to lead the market in terms of volume.

Find out who won the 2016 Plug & Play Winter Expo, which featured more than 20 insurtech startups pitching representatives from the industry.

Hippo, an insurtech startup looking to provide home insurance beginning in 2017, has announced $14 million in Series A funding led by VC firm Horizons Ventures.

IoTSF is promoting the “Supply Chain of Trust” concept, which encourages producers to adopt a duty of care for their own customers and toward the wider ecosystem.

The insurer's latest investment is in Sureify, an admin platform for life insurance.

DARPA predictions include the possibility that devices or applications will be capable of being launched by human thoughts.

The number of investments involving insurtech companies is expected to exceed 75 this year, up from 61 in 2015 and just one in 2012, according to venture-capital researcher CB Insights.