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Can AI Transform Agricultural & Flood Insurance? Upcoming Event Offers Expert Views

New global land use mapping, jet stream led forecasting and novel agri-insurance to off-set price volatility, is to be discussed at an Agri-TechE event ‘De-risking Agriculture Through Weather-Tech’ How can you manage the risk created […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

IRDAI Approval Shows New Ideas Will Transform India’s Insurance Market

The approval granted earlier in January 2020 to around 15 companies to develop new insurance products in India shows how the market there is changing fast. For decades Indian insurance was paper based, usually sold […]

InsureTech

India: Icertis Hackathon Winners Improve Crop Failure Claims Process

Icertis, the leading provider of enterprise contract management in the cloud, today announced the winners of Icertis’ AI/ML and Blockchain Hackathon, at the grand finale held in Pune. The winning team’s innovative solution utilized machine learning […]

Global insurance trends

India: AIR Worldwide Launches Crop Risk Modelling Software

Catastrophe risk modelling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that it has released a Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for India to help support probabilistic assessments of potential losses caused by yield shortfalls for […]

Global insurance trends

Aon Partners With Oxfam & Etherisc on Micro Insurance Scheme

Aon plc, the leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions; Oxfam in Sri Lanka, the organization working to alleviate poverty; and Etherisc, the InsurTech startup developing a protocol for decentralized […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Aegis Respond to Lloyd’s Indian Crop Reinsurance Report

Responding to the publication of the Lloyd’s new report ‘Harvesting opportunity: an overview of the Indian crop reinsurance market’, Dominic Oldridge, crop reinsurance underwriter with AEGIS London, said: “This Lloyd’s Innovation report is a welcome step […]