XL Group is a global insurance company with both insurance and reinsurance operations. Operating primarily under the XL Catlin brand since the 2015 acquisition of Catlin Group Limited, the company today provides property, casualty, and specialty …
Category: Insurance
There was a time when venture capital firms would turn you away at the door if you approached with an insurance-related startup. That time is not now. Things have changed for the better, and InsurTech is …
Insurance is not known for innovation. Those of us who have tried to transform the insurance industry – whether from inside, outside, or both – bear the scars. The multi-trillion dollar insurance industry seems to have …
InsPeer is an innovative web-based service enabling users to reduce their auto, motorcycle, and homeowners insurance premiums by raising their deductibles and laying off their increased risk on people they know. Generally, the higher the deductible, …
Stark Group is a collection of startup companies founded in January 2015 by Matthias de Ferrieres, formerly General Insurance Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Digital for French insurance giant AXA in Asia. The group was …
In February, Paris-based AXA announced the launch of a new venture capital fund to invest in innovation in the insurance, asset management, financial technology and healthcare service industries. AXA Strategic Ventures will have as much as …
AXA is a well-known holding company for a collection of international insurance and financial services firms, including AXA US. AXA has 102 million clients in 56 countries around the world. It is the number one global …
Are we about to see a flowering of P2P insurance startups? In France, insPeer was recently named a finalist in des Grands Prix de l’Innovation de la Ville de Paris. Not yet ready to launch (and …
Two years ago, Allstate bought online auto insurance carrier and internet bubble survivor Esurance in order to better compete with direct auto carriers Geico and Progressive. Over the past six years, Allstate has steadily lost market …