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What’s next in Duuo’s commercial coverage pipeline

April 15, 2021 by Greg Meckbach

Duuo Insurance is working on a subscription model of buying insurance that gets away from the traditional way of buying annual policies that normally stay pretty much the same until renewal. The vision is an insurance product with different blocks

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How this insurtech is encouraging innovation during COVID-19

March 30, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Slice Labs Inc., an insurtech with locations in Toronto and Ottawa, is adapting to the pandemic by helping insurers develop new products from people’s homes. “We are actively engaged in getting new products into the market – going full speed

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What insurtechs can learn from hackathons

March 13, 2019 by Greg Meckbach

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated. A previous version incorrectly stated that duuo was launched at Slice Labs’ launch studio in Toronto. CU apologizes for the error. If you want to develop a new digital insurance product, it shouldn’t

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Insurtech seeks to bring the ‘Uber-Netflix-Spotify-Amazon’ experience to commercial clients

March 11, 2019 by Greg Meckbach

An insurtech with offices in Ontario is looking for commercial and personal lines carriers who want to sell insurance the way Spotify sells music. “We are talking to several Canadian insurers who have an interest in launching new products” Philippe

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Home-sharing insurance coverage expanding

November 20, 2018 by Greg Meckbach

Clients in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Atlantic Canada who rent out their homes like hotels will soon get coverage options through an insurtech partnership involving Slice Labs. The Co-operators Group Ltd. announced Tuesday that Duuo is expanding to more provinces. Duuo

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The Co-operators Duuo could go ‘way beyond home share’

November 15, 2018 by Greg Meckbach

More Insurtech products – in addition to coverage for overnight home rentals – could be coming down the pipe from the recently-launched Duuo, a speaker with Slice Labs Inc. reports. Coverage for homeowners listing their place on sites like Airbnb