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Lemonade launches its renters insurance in France

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Lemonade is launching its renters insurance in France. Lemonade has optimized its insurance product in different ways. First, it’s supposed to be easier to sign up with Lemonade compared with a legacy insurance company. Chances are you don’t think that much about renters insurance. Originally from the U.S.,

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Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap

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Melbourne O’Banion is co-founder and CEO of digital life insurance company Bestow. An estimated 41 million Americans say they need life insurance but have yet to purchase coverage. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution.

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Pay-per-mile auto insurer Metromile is heading to public markets via SPAC

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Metromile , the pay-per-mile auto insurer that earlier this year laid off a third of its staff due to economic uncertainties caused by COVID-19, is taking the SPAC path to the public markets. Metromile is credited for disrupting some of the inefficiencies of the auto insurance business model, notably how consumers are charged.

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Notch will sell you insurance in case your Instagram gets hacked

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It’s even worse if you’re a digital creator whose social media accounts literally pay your bills. The Israel-based startup Notch is trying to see if insuring creators against Instagram hacks could offer a solution. ” Notch is not affiliated with Instagram, but Broshi says that this is normal for insurance companies.

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Casava gets $4M pre-seed to make insurance affordable and accessible to Nigerians

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African countries are yet to catch up with social security and safety programs commonly used in the West, where the government provides health insurance and unemployment benefits to citizens. The general perception of insurance on the continent has been bland for years, and its penetration rate, except South Africa, is subpar.

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Headway raises $70M at a $750M valuation to help connect therapists with people and insurance schemes

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The approach that Headway is taking — creating not just a vertical search portal for therapists, but building a back-end system to help those therapists grow their business by making it easier for them to accept insurance coverage — comes directly out of the experiences faced by one of the startup’s co-founders.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

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One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age.