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Today’s top selected digital insurance content
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The company released new wearable activity and sleep trackers exclusively for employers and health plans in January. The company unveiled a website for the new trackers, called Fitbit Inspire and Inspire HR, saying that it is available exclusively through Fitbit’s corporate, wellness, health plan and health systems partners.
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| American technology company Solera has purchased insurtech in4mo, a Finnish company that offers property structure software and services for the insurance, repair, and homeowner marketplaces.
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Berkshire Hathaway’s Insurance Group has launched a comprehensive insurance product for small businesses that combines multiple coverages. The product, dubbed THREE, is three-pages long, and combines coverage for workers compensation, multiple liability coverages.
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Human API , “the nation’s largest health data network,” has announced $10m in new funding to accelerate product development and market expansion. The round includes “strong support” from new investors Guardian Life Insurance Company and SCOR Life and Health Ventures.
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Santam (Cape Town), South Africa’s largest general insurer, has selected Guidewire Software’s ClaimCenter as its platform for claims management. An existing Guidewire client, Santam will implement ClaimCenter for its personal and commercial lines of business, across direct and intermediated distribution channels.
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| | 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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