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Today’s top selected digital insurance content
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Pluto, a travel startup based in London, UK, is offering mobile-focused travel insurance in a bid to challenge the market and reduce the number of millennials travelling without cover.
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| Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has unveiled plans to expand into the property construction insurance market in the UK and Ireland.
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Crawford & Company, the independent provider of claims management solutions to insurance companies and self-insured entities, has launched a transportation-focused solution.
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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Shreveport, Louisiana-based Interstate Insurance Underwriters LLC. Interstate Insurance Underwriters is a managing general agency (MGA) offering a variety of property/casualty coverages through agents and brokers.
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The Indonesian Life Insurance Association (AAJI) has assessed that bancassurance will continue to be a pillar in insurance distribution this year, given the channel's broad market share.
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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.
| | This month we take a look back at the major developments of 2018 and select the most progressive InsurTechs that have emerged from China. Although the past year was characterized by continued optimism with regard to digital insurance.
| | 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.
| | 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. Although relatively unknown in the
western world, Tencent is China’s most influential internet company.
| | 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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