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Today’s top selected digital insurance content
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Ola, one of the world’s largest ride-sharing platforms, has achieved a unique milestone of facilitating the issue of 20m in-trip microinsurance policies. The product – launched in April last year – offers coverage against lost baggage, accidental medical expenses, accidental death or disability.
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| Insurtech firm CoverHound has raised $58m capital in new Series D funding round led by Bermuda-incorporated specialist insurer Hiscox.The other investors in the funding round were Chubb, Aflac Ventures and Japan-based MS&AD.
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Accident Support Services International (ASSI) and Aviva Canada have officially launched Canada’s first automatic First Notice of Loss (FNOL) service at all Collision Reporting Centre (CRC) locations, following a highly successful pilot period last November.
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Auto Club South Insurance Company (ACSIC; Dearborn, Mich.) has launched the AAADrive Insurance Discount in Florida, a platform that gives insurance customers the ability to view and receive a score of their driving behavior on their smartphones.
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Industry observers have been speculating about Amazon’s intentions with its Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase healthcare partnership from day one. What’s clear is that the online retailer will initially focus on taming its own rising employee healthcare costs before taking its approach to the marketplace where it hopes to mine new revenue streams.
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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.
| | Customers are increasingly demanding products they understand that fit their own specific needs. In order to achieve this, insurers are launching many more products and collaborating with competitors in order to satisfy these demands.
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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.
| | Martha Notaras, a partner at venture capital firm XL Innovate, has drawn up her top 10 innovations she expects to pass in insurtech in the coming year. Insurtech has seen huge levels of investment, but there are two distinct markets developing. Fintechs will seek to widen their horizons and revenue
opportunities through new products.
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