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Christopher Lotz Bet on the Boring Part of Fintech
A yacht underwriter crossed oceans, learned the machinery of risk, and came home to rebuild renters insurance around a plain idea: the customer should be on the same side as the company.
The Insurance Company That Started With a Bet on Farmers
A hunch about farmers in 1927 grew into a top-ten American insurer. Here is how American Family Insurance built a mutual empire on the promise to inspire, protect, and restore dreams.
Assurant
You may never shop for Assurant, yet it may already be standing behind your phone, car, apartment or mortgage. The $12.8 billion company has built a business out of everything that happens after the sale.
Goodcover
Goodcover is a San Francisco insurtech offering cooperative renters insurance built around a member-first model. Founded in 2017 and launched out of Y Combinator, it operates as a Managing General Agent that pools members' premiums, takes a fixed fee, pays claims, and returns leftover premium to members as an Annual Member Dividend. The pitch: renters insurance for roughly half the price of legacy carriers, with a fully digital sign-up, human support, and a structure that aligns the company's incentives with its members rather than with retaining unclaimed premium as profit.