China to strengthen crackdown on medicar...

TIANJIN, March 18 (Xinhua) -- China will launch a month-long campaign nationwide to enhance supervision over medical insurance funds and strengthen its crackdown on medical insurance fraud. The campa

Top-tier auditor PwC reaches settlement ...

WASHINGTON, March 15 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said on Friday that it has reached a 335-million-U.S.-dollar settlement with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one o

China to add more anti-cancer drugs for ...

BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- China is considering adding more anti-cancer drugs to its list of medicines eligible for medical insurance reimbursement, in an effort to reduce the burden on patients.

Acko, a digital insurance provider in In...

Acko — a startup out of India that has taken on the country’s antiquated insurance industry with a digital-first product for drivers and others in transportation-related scenarios (for exa

CXA, a health-focused digital insurance ...

CXA Group, a Singapore-based startup that helps make insurance more accessible and affordable, has raised $25 million for expansion in Asia and later into Europe and North America.The startup takes a

Pluto is travel insurance aimed at mille...

Pitched as “travel insurance for people who don’t like insurance,” U.K.-based Pluto Insurance is officially launching today with an online travel insurance product targeting millennials.Ci

Wefox Group, the Berlin-based insurance ...

Wefox Group, the Berlin-based ‘insurtech’ startup behind the consumer-facing insurance app and carrier One and the insurance platform Wefox, has raised $125 million in Series B funding. No

China's social endowment insurance cover...

KUNMING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- China's social endowment insurance for rural and urban residents has covered over 523 million people by the end of 2018, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and

China to include more drugs in medical i...

China's administration will work to include more life-saving medicines in the country's medical insurance this year, said Hu Jinglin, head of China's State Medical Insurance Administration, at the Mi

China's bank and insurance regulator: De...

China's structural deleveraging drive has met the target, but the risks of small banks' liquidity and property market still should be on guard, according to China's bank and insurance regulator on Mo