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INSHUR wins Diversity and Inclusion Award at British Insurance Awards

INSHUR has secured a win at the prestigious British Insurance Awards for their Diversity and Inclusion efforts. The BIAs are the largest awards in the UK insurance calendar and are held annually, with this year’s celebration taking place at Battersea Evolution on 15 September. The awards celebrate the exceptional achievements of the UK insurance industry…
Insurtech Firm To Expand Beyond Gig Economy

INSHUR Fuels Growth Plans With $35m Funding Led By JVP, Viola Fintech and MTech Capital INSHUR, a leading global Insurtech firm carving out a name for itself in commercial insurance, today announced completion of additional Series B funding, led by JVP with participation from Viola Fintech, MTech Capital and other existing investors. The new funding…
In Conversation With Our UK Insurance Product Manager

Wayne Thomas began working for INSHUR in August 2019 as the UK Insurance Product Manager. Having previously worked as a senior underwriter, he was already familiar with the insurance industry before coming to INSHUR. Here he discusses how he got started in the world of insurance, what surprised him about joining an insurance start-up and…
How INSHUR Moved Claims In-House

Written by Brandon Littles “This isn’t going to be easy” is the understatement we made when we first discussed bringing claims in-house at INSHUR. A year and a half later, we reached our goal of delivering a fully digital claims experience to our customers that’s overseen by the team at INSHUR from end to end.…
Celebrating English Language Day

Written by Catherine Pearson English Language Day took place this week on the 23rd April, a day originally established by the United Nations to dedicate a day for each of the organisation’s six official languages. It’s also, not at all coincidentally, the birthday and date of death of master wordsmith William Shakespeare. As INSHUR’s resident…
Team Building Remotely: Our Engineering Offsite

Written by Katerina D. A few days ago, the Engineering team had a remote half-day offsite. This was my first offsite with the team I joined about 6 months ago and I was excited to see how it could help us stay connected, have some fun and present some exciting ideas to improve the business…
My first month at INSHUR

Written by Olivia Carter At the end of February 2021, I was delighted to join INSHUR as their first dedicated Engineering Manager. My personal responsibility in this new role in the insurtech world is the oversight and leadership of a talented cross-functional team of Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Software Testers. In order to support…
Courier and delivery insurance, the INSHUR way

The delivery market is booming. While the coronavirus pandemic has played a significant part in this, home delivery of goods and food was already on the rise. Demand for UK food delivery had grown by 39% in the three years leading up to the start of 2020, according to Consumer research organisation NPD Group’s report.…
How INSHUR celebrated International Women’s Day (for a Month)

Written by Bojana NinkovInternational Women’s Day is a day dedicated to celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women globally. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women’s achievements and campaign for women’s equality. This year, we…

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