Global insurance trends

Wingsure Will Offer Small Farmers Affordable Crop Cover

SRI International recently announced that its insurtech venture spinout, Wingsure, is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) capabilities to deliver instant access to personalized insurance products for underserved small farmers and communities […]

Global insurance trends

US Market: AlphaRoot Expands Its Cannabis Grower Insurance

AlphaRoot, a Founder Shield company, has announced it has advanced the expansion of a limited distribution casualty program to provide casualty capacity to cannabis companies. As the cannabis industry matures, so does the loss exposure and […]

News

Crop Insurance: PlanetWatchers Raises $3.5 in Funding Round

PlanetWatchers (‘the Company’), a revolutionary crop monitoring company that can provide detailed insurance claims assessment in just one hour, has closed a Pre-A series funding round, raising $3.5m to support the Company’s growth plans. PlanetWatchers […]

Global insurance trends

US Insurance Opportunities: Cannabis Growth, Distribution & Retail

New Dawn Risk has launched its latest white paper on insurance for the US legal cannabis, CBD and hemp markets.  The 2021 report is called “Opportunity knocks at last in the US cannabis insurance market”. […]

Global insurance trends

New Dawn Risk Publishes Report on Indian Agri-Sector

Lloyd’s broker New Dawn Risk has today launched its new report: Technology brings new opportunities for India’s crop insurance scheme The report details changes that have been made to the government-sponsored scheme during 2020, which […]

Emerging Risk

US Market: Will CBD Sector Expand Following November Election?

The upcoming US election has started nation-wide conversations around the legalisation of cannabis, both recreational and medicinal. With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing, demand and use of medical cannabis has increased in the US. For insurers, […]

Global insurance trends

Sompo Partners With InVivo on French Agri-Insurance Project

Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced recently that their global agriculture platform, AgriSompo, has entered into a strategic broking relationship with InVivo Group, a national […]

InsureTech

India: Jio and Qualcomm Team Up on Huge 5G Rollout for SMEs

Insurers who want to do business in India will be interested to learn that the largest mobile network in the country, Jio Platforms, has formed a partnership with Qualcomm Ventures. The aim? Reliable 5G connectivity […]