INSURANCE INDUSTRY NEWS

SuperAgent AI Announces World-First ‘Insurance Quoting AI Agent’
SUPERAGENT AI, Inc. is pleased to announce the world's first Quoting AI Agent, a technological breakthrough that automates the single most critical and labor-intensive workflow in the insurance industry. Read more.

Manulife A.I. Integration Delivers Faster Life Insurance Approvals
Manulife Canada has introduced a redesigned electronic application and an enhanced version of its proprietary AI underwriting engine, MAUDE, enabling automatic approvals in as little as two minutes for qualified applicants, helping Canadians access coverage faster and with less complexity. Read more.

Waabi Secures New Funding To Lead The Physical A.I. Revolution
Waabi, the leader in Physical AI, is pleased to announce it has closed its oversubscribed $750M USD Series C round and secured an additional milestone-based future investment from Uber to support a new partnership to deploy robotaxis powered by the Waabi Driver exclusively on the Uber platform. The funding will fuel the continued advancement of Waabi's Physical AI Platform, further accelerate the company's commercial progress in autonomous trucking, and support Waabi's expansion into robotaxis. Read more.

The Top Insurance Trends To Watch This Year
Insurers and MGAs must have eight key trends on their radar, according to the Insly Insurance Trends Report 2026, which reveals the biggest issues, market forces, and technologies that will shape the global insurance sector this year. Read more.

2025 Catastrophes Caused Billions In Insured Losses In Canada: CatIQ
The magnitude of catastrophic events experienced across Canada in 2025 pushed the insured loss total for the country to CAD 2.4 billion, according to CatIQ, Canada's insured loss and exposure indices provider. Read more.

Acturis Earns API Security Standards Certification
CSIO congratulates Acturis Canada Inc. on achieving CSIO's API Security Standards Certification for their Acturis Broker Management System. In addition, Acturis has successfully earned a Gold CSIO Standards Certification Rating. Read more.

Acturis Partners With QuickFacts To Deliver Custom Broker Workflows
QuickFacts is pleased to announce Acturis has partnered with QuickFacts to provide QuickFlows within QuickFacts. QuickFlows, part of our Workflows software, gives brokers structured, customizable processes directly in QuickFacts. These guided processes supplement the workflows already in place for brokers to navigate Acturis, helping them work more efficiently and consistently across their teams. Read more.

Send Certification Sets The Standard For Controlled Agentic AI In Underwriting
Leading insurtech Send Technology Solutions Ltd. is pleased to announce it has secured ISO 42001 certification, the first international standard for AI management systems. The certification signals Send's commitment to responsible AI governance in a sector where data sensitivity and decision integrity are critical, and where trust is a defining competitive advantage. Read more.

Rising Demand For Pre-Purchase Home Inspections
As more Canadians call for clarity and due diligence in the home buying process, CHES Special Risk is reporting increased demand for independent building inspections, particularly in the pre-purchase residential space. Read more.

GFT, FICO Launch Smart Finance Partnership
To fight the rising tide of digital fraud, GFT Technologies and FICO, a global leader in analytic software, have joined forces in a new global partnership with the goal of helping banks act in real-time to stop fraud early and simplifying risk decisions using AI. Read more.

Ecclesiastical Shares Theft Prevention Risk Bulletin
Ecclesiastical Insurance has released a new risk management resource aimed at helping community-serving organizations reduce theft and property damage losses, emphasizing that many incidents develop over time when small security gaps go unnoticed. Read more.

Sage Advisory Expands Reach With inCadense
Sage Advisory, an independent investment management firm, has announced a strategic collaboration with inCadense to bring Sage's institutional-quality investment strategies to international markets. Read more.

In the InsurTech Spotlight this week:

Life Simpli
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Manager, Product Development
Saskatchewan Mutual Insurance
Saskatoon, SK

Senior Director, Advisory Services
Ontario Medical Association
Toronto, ON

From Doug Paul Carroll at Insurance Thought Leadership is watching seven trends in 2026: AI agents, IoT, predict & prevent, embedded, parametric, autonomous vehicles and speed. Five of those trends impact the driverless (autonomous) vehicle industry, where Agentic Systems play a big role in the following ways. Different AI agents gather information from sensors (e.g., LiDAR, cameras, radar, motion planning). These and other AI agents share data and operate collaboratively as an agentic system to navigate complex, real-time environments. These systems constantly analyze, plan, and execute complex, multi-step actions (e.g., lane changes, emergency braking) autonomously. They also learn from driving experiences to improve safety and efficiency. Although it is still early days, some connected vehicles are sharing data with other vehicles (V2V), and also with connected infrastructure (V2I) such as smart traffic lights. Driverless cars illustrate the shift from simple, passive AI agents to proactive, independent, agentic AI systems. They have “learned” to do what owners/drivers used to do. In insurance, AI agents are being deployed in many areas. Which begs the question: working collaboratively as Agentic Systems, how much of the insurance business as we know it could they manage and process? Doug Grant, CIP Partner Insurance-Canada.ca