Travel Insurance

Riskline Warns On Fake Vaccine Documents

“In the absence of digital vaccination apps and because insecure paper documents are easy to fake, many travellers are likely to be using counterfeit vaccination passports; the consequences will be long delays at airports,” says Adam Schrader, Director […]

News

Oxford Vaccine is Good To Go, But WIll 2021 See Return To Normal?

The news today that the Oxford vaccine will be rolled out from next week in the UK has to be good for insurers. Commercial policyholders with several staff sharing office/shop space and rest room facilities […]

InsureTech

Switzerland: Kickstart Celebrates Insurtech Proofs & Partners

Kickstart Innovation, one of Europe’s leading innovation platforms, announced the initiation of 48 Proofs of Concepts (PoCs) and other partnerships between start-ups, scale-ups and established companies and institutions. Since 2015, a total of over 170 […]

InsureTech

Think Your InsurTech Brainwave Has Potential? Prove It. NavVid Did.

The insurance sector has been overwhelmed with insurtech investment, new start-ups, labs, innovation hubs, hackathons and much more in the last three or four years. Investment keeps pouring in, and there’s no doubt that companies […]

Global insurance trends

Grab Bike Ride-Hailing Scheme Offers Safer Travel for Urban Commuters

Ride hailing on mopeds and small motorcycles is something that is an everyday mode of transport in much of the developing world. But many passengers, and riders, carry no insurance cover. A new scheme is […]

Business

Munich Re Makes Mahoosive $250m Investment in Next Insurance

Next Insurance, the leading digital Insurtech company transforming small business insurance, today announced that it has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round from Munich Re. The funds will enable new product development as […]