While you were off changing the industry, you may have missed these important developments:
- Zurich North America has acquired Sea Pine Technologies, an insurtech company specializing in digital applications for marketing vehicle protection products. [AMBest]
- The fourth quarter of 2018 saw 63 insurtech deals worldwide valuing $1.59 billion in total. [WillisTowersWatson]
- Lime, a digital insurance platform has launched an accidental death cover product in the United Kingdom. [Banking Tech]
- CyberCube, a San Francisco based startup insurtech analytics platform, has been selected by reinsurer Munich Re to quantify, model and control cyber accumulation risk. [Intelligent Insurer]
- Breathe Life, a Montreal based insurtech designed to help distributors reach underserved markets, has raised $4.5 million in its latest round seed funding. [Insurance Business]
- Cigna and Sentara Healthcare have joined a blockchain collaborative aiming to build, share and deploy digital solutions for business issues. [Dig-In]
- Cohen & Company, LLC is backing an insurance, reinsurance and insurtech acquisition vehicle, Insurance Acquisitions Corporation, and it has set John Butler to be the CEO and President of Insurance Acquisitions Corporation. [Artemis]