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One Call Insurance | May 15, 2018

Insurance broker One Call Insurance has partnered with technology firm Roost in a move aimed at disrupting the home insurance market. The collaboration will see Roost’s home telematics solution incorporated into One Call’s home insurance product lines, including the broker’s new ‘One Call Smart Home’ initiative. Benefits of deploying the former’s smart sensors include better mitigation of the woes brought about by claims related to fire, smoke, and water leaks...

Amazon | June 14, 2018

A home insurance offering would be a ‘natural evolution’ for Amazon, according to Neil Cooper of Audio Analytic....

LexisNexis Risk Solution | July 20, 2018

LexisNexis Risk Solutions feels that it may have the answer having just launched LexisNexis Home Prefill, which is aimed at not only reducing dropout rates but also improving rating inputs and speeding up the application process in general. The idea is that once a customer has validated personal data such as their address, key elements of property information will be dropped into the application such as when the property was built and how many bedrooms and bathrooms it has. This reduces the numb...

Insurance Business Magazine | January 16, 2020

Insurance start-up battleface, which provides travel insurance for unconventional travelers worldwide, has announced that it has successfully closed a seed funding round with backing from strategic and venture capital investors. Fintech Ventures Fund has invested in battleface, joining Greenlight Re and Tangiers Group. The investment will be used to expand software development, hire sales and business-development personnel, and expand battleface’s global reach, the company said. “We ...