Motor Insurance

Metromile Is Going Public; PAYG Has Become Main St USA

PAYG car insurance is going mainstream, as Metromile heads for a public offer. Here’s the press info; Metromile, Inc., the leading digital insurance platform and pay-per-mile auto insurer, and INSU Acquisition Corp. II, a publicly-traded […]

InsureTech

Duck Creek IPO Launches Today at $27 Per Share

Duck Creek Technologies, Inc. (“Duck Creek”), a provider of SaaS-delivered enterprise software to the property and casualty (“P&C”) insurance industry, announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 15,000,000 shares of its common […]

Insurance claims

Insurello Raises More Funding, Expands Automated Consumer Compo Offer

Insurello, which helps consumers get the right compensation from insurance companies, takes in an additional SEK 75 million in an investment round led by Inventure with Schibsted as co-lead. Luminar Ventures also continues to invest in […]

News

Free Spirit Travel Offers Covid-19 Cover – Inc Pre-Existing Conditions

As travel restrictions are lifted, both in the UK and further afield, Free Spirit Travel (FST) – part of P J Hayman and Company – are now providing COVID-19 insurance cover. According to a customer […]

News

Saga & Staysure Boldly Go into Covid-19 Cover – Includes Cruise Holidays

Saga has announced that treatment abroad for Covid-19 and repatriation to the UK will be included as standard as part of its travel insurance policies for all trips from 1st June. Saga has added the cover […]

News

Lemonade IPO Will Test Risk Appetite for Insurtech Unicorns

There are lots of insurtech companies out there, many already winning large sums of  initial funding and venture capital investment. But will UK or NY stock markets support share offer launches, is the market ready […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

AIG Reveal Customers Choosing Online GP Appointments

Customers are turning to a virtual GP to diagnose cough, cold, flu and fever from the comfort of their own home rather than attending their local surgery, data from AIG Life Limited has revealed. As […]

InsureTech

Investment: Collective Benefits Raises £3.3m In Funding Round

The gig economy continues to expand in the UK as online shopping replaces the High Street. Even fast food outlets with drive-thru lanes are finding that many prefer to order online and have it delivered. […]