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Today’s top selected digital insurance content
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GuideOne, a small business insurance company, has launched a new data system to help agents be faster and more effective. The provider of products designed for churches, schools, home care providers, and nonprofit organizations says the new agent portal can will quote and process business-owner policies within 10 minutes.
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| The Santa Monica-based, venture-backed startup, established in 2016 and led by David Bergendahl andAndrew Grapsas, offers “the world’s first pay as you drive liability insurance” starting in California.
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Limelight Health, a San Francisco, CA-based quoting, underwriting, and proposal platform for the employee benefits industry, raised $33.5m in series C funding.
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Global asset manager Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has announced it will invest $13m in digital insurance company Singapore Life (SingLife).
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Policygenius, a New York-based national direct-to-consumer insurance broker, has announced that it is expanding its online insurance marketplace to offer home insurance and auto insurance with a personalized shopping experience that aims to be unique in the market.
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InsurTech Insight looks at the role of the Digital Actuary, with a provocative intro from Hugh Terry, analysis from KPMG on the developing role, and insight from Rick Huckstep, who interviews three digital insurance leaders seeking new actuarial opportunity.
| | In the final edition of this three-part series on China's tech giants we consider the digital insurance activities currently underway at Tencent with an in-depth article and slide deck alongside further video analysis from Swiss Re's Yannick Even and the TDI team.
| | To excel in the digital-centric age, insurers must deliver better customer experiences that are simple, efficient, and obstacle-free, says this report from the enterprise software provider, SAP. Insurers must understand how to streamline customer-facing processes.
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This month we are featuring the ‘Connected Enterprise’, a topic that’s really all about customer focus in the extreme. In Tom Robert’s KPMG article, he outlines the steps insurers can take to become Connected Enterprises, while Rick homes in on Trov, Lemonade, and ZhongAn, as tangible examples of Connected
Insurance Enterprises.There are examples of insurers that have already become Connected Enterprises.
| | This month we consider the digital insurance activites currenlty underway at Baidu. As China’s biggest search engine, Baidu has amassed more than 500 million active users across search, maps, O2O services, and autonomous driving.Although Baidu’s involvement in digital insurance has been more selective than
Alibaba or Tencent, its focus on Autonomous Driving could see it disrupt a market that represents 70% of non-life premium.
| | This report from Oxbow Partners focuses on the Lloyd’s and London markets, which it considers initially viewed insurtech with interest, but little understanding of the potential for change. They may believe their corporate and speciality markets are isolated from the surge of insurtech because they are
specialist, but this would fly in the face of all the evidence.
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