Israeli Digital Insurance Company Lemonade Expanding Into Car Insurance
Lemonade Car Insurance (compony Twitter post) Lemonade is an Israeli digital insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. Until now it has concentrated in the real estate / home More...
Google Leads $250 Million Investment In Israel’s Next Insurance While Facing Federal Antitrust Charges
Google sister firm the investment fund CapitalG (both are owned by Alphabet) has led a $250 million Series D round of funding in the Israeli small business insurer Next Insurance Inc., giving the company a $2 More...
An Introduction to Short Term Disability
By Contributing Author Disability can arise from a back injury that requires major surgery or a progressive health condition that leaves you unable to work. It isn’t always clear whether a health problem More...
Israeli startup brings crop insurance to Africa via SMS
Former French insurance salesman began a pilot educating farmers on the value of crop insurance and signed up 755 farmers in four weeks last summer. Simon Schwall worked with 150 field agents in Papua New Guinea More...
Israeli cyber startup Waterfall Security teams with insurance specialists
Israeli cyber security specialist Waterfall Security Solutions and insurance specialists THB and CNA Hardy have entered into a partnership to provide a new cyber security protection package for industrial More...
KKR, CDPQ Acquire Onex’s USI Insurance for About $2 Billion
Global investment firm KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), and Canadian Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a long-term institutional investor, have announced their joint acquisition of USI More...
Over A Quarter Of Americans Have Trouble Paying Their Medical Bills
Recent research from the Kaiser Family Foundation has revealed that just over a quarter of American adults (ages 18-64) say they or someone in their household struggled to pay their medical bills over the past More...
Oscar’s losses are huge but investors don’t care
Three health insurance companies that launched in 2013 to win the business unleashed by Obamacare have been swimming in red ink ever since. In 2014, they lost a collective $138 million. Yet one, Oscar More...
Chiasma, Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering of Common Stock
– – Israeli-American privately held biomed company Chiasma announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 6, 365, 000 shares of common stock at a price of $16.00 per share, before underwriting More...
“Israeli government has no credit exposure to Greece”
“The Israeli government has no credit exposure to Greece, and is expected to suffer no direct damage following the halt in European Central Bank aid to Greek banks, ” Israel Foreign Trade Risks More...