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Insurance

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss.

Lawmakers Eye Alternatives To Renter Security Deposits
Lawmakers Eye Alternatives To Renter Security Deposits
January 19, 2020  |  Alternative Finances

Lawmakers across multiple states are considering legislation to reconfigure the often burdensome security deposit structure that adversely affects renters of less financial means, according to...

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Cigna, Oscar To Launch Healthcare Solution For SMBs
Cigna, Oscar To Launch Healthcare Solution For SMBs
January 13, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Cigna has announced a partnership with technology-focused Oscar, another health insurance firm, to provide plans and coverage across U.S. markets for small businesses. “Small businesses...

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Embedding Insurance At The Point Of Sale
Embedding Insurance At The Point Of Sale
January 13, 2020  |  eCommerce

Insurance is changing with the rise of eCommerce, as well as with the support of ever-expanding data sets and other parts of the digital infrastructure...

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Have Wheels, Will Heal — Medical’s Transportation Ecosystem?
Have Wheels, Will Heal — Medical’s Transportation Ecosystem?
January 09, 2020  |  Healthcare

While there is no shortage of issues to be solved in the U.S. healthcare system – getting patients to keep the doctors’ appointments they make...

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Aon Deal Signals Rising Trend Of InsurTech In The 2020s
Aon Deal Signals Rising Trend Of InsurTech In The 2020s
January 08, 2020  |  Digital Payments

It will pay to watch how the insurance industry undergoes innovation and disruption in the coming decade, thanks in part to digital tech, faster disbursements...

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NEW DATA: Insurance At The Point Of Sale Can Boost Consumer Retail Spend
NEW DATA: Insurance At The Point Of Sale Can Boost Consumer Retail Spend
January 06, 2020  |  eCommerce

Consumers have become accustomed to being offered protection with their purchases of electronics, home appliances and other big-ticket items from brick-and-mortar retail locations. Insurance provides...

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Commercial InsurTech Bold Penguin Buys xagent To Expand B2B Range
Commercial InsurTech Bold Penguin Buys xagent To Expand B2B Range
January 02, 2020  |  B2B Payments

The commercial InsurTech Bold Penguin is acquiring excess and surplus brokerage tech platform xagent so it can scale service to insurance carriers, brokers and agents,...

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UK Insurance Firms Slash Technology Coverage
UK Insurance Firms Slash Technology Coverage
December 26, 2019  |  International

U.K. insurers will not be covering as much digital property and data as they previously did, according to the Financial Times. Now, disasters like fires...

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The Power Of THREE: Inside Berkshire Hathaway’s New SMB InsurTech Platform
The Power Of THREE: Inside Berkshire Hathaway’s New SMB InsurTech Platform
December 23, 2019  |  SMBs

When people joke about boring professions and industries, one can bet that insurance will almost always be one of the top targets of such humor....

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