Insurance Payouts news and trends

Eight in 10 Insurers Seek FinTech Partners for Instant Payment Plays
Digital Payments // February 16, 2024

Insurance companies are crucial in helping consumers with essential needs. They may provide funds to cover significant emergencies such as major medical procedures, home repairs following a disaster or replacing a car totaled in a collision. However, the slow payment practices within the industry hinder...

Smart Digital Payments Bring Consumer-Like Experience to Auto Repairs and Insurance Claims Payouts
Insurance // February 15, 2024

Michael Boeke, VP of Payment Product Management Enterprise at CCC Intelligent Solutions, told PYMNTS that the trillion-dollar property and casualty economy needs to continue its digital overhaul. An accident, he said, represents “an event that is often a major disruption to someone’s life.” The claims...

Mastercard Launches Healthcare Payments Solution
Healthcare Financing // January 18, 2024

Mastercard is launching a medical claim payment solution with key partners in India. The firm is collaborating with one of the country’s leading financial institutions and Remedinet, a cloud-based HealthTech platform, Mastercard said in a Thursday (Jan. 18) press release emailed to PYMNTS. This solution will use...

Nearly One-Third of Insurance Consumers Prefer Not to Pay Extra for Real-Time Payments
Insurance // October 17, 2023

Legacy payment systems in the financial and insurance industries have often resulted in delays, errors and complications, leading to damaged customer loyalty and lost business. As noted in a recent PYMNTS Intelligence research study titled “Fast-Tracking Funds: Finance and Insurance Accelerate Payments,” 40% of insurers...

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Smart Digital Payments Bring Consumer-Like Experience to Auto Repairs and Insurance Claims Payouts

February 15, 2024
Michael Boeke, VP of Payment Product Management Enterprise at CCC Intelligent Solutions, told PYMNTS that the trillion-dollar property and casualty economy needs to continue its digital overhaul. An accident, he said, represents “an event that is often a major disruption to someone’s life.” The claims processes, he said, are anything but simple, streamlined or easy […]

Twenty-Three Percent of Consumers Want Instant Insurance Claims Payouts

February 15, 2023
Instant payments are finding firm footing as way to get insurance claims paid out quickly. In the Insurance Disbursements Brief 2022, a PYMNTS and Ingo Money report, more than 2,400...

Fiserv Goes Direct With Disbursements

July 24, 2017
Paul Diegelman, VP of business development & partnerships at Fiserv, says that the story of bringing B2C digital disbursements to corporates at the financial services company started four years ago...

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Mastercard Launches Healthcare Payments Solution

January 18, 2024
Mastercard is launching a medical claim payment solution with key partners in India. The firm is collaborating with one of the country’s leading financial institutions and Remedinet, a cloud-based HealthTech platform, Mastercard said in a Thursday (Jan. 18) press release emailed to PYMNTS. This solution will use Mastercard’s virtual card technology to support business-to-business (B2B) healthcare claim […]

FEMA Looks At Blockchain To Aid Disaster Payouts

November 20, 2019
The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has revealed that it might look into using blockchain technology to streamline disaster insurance payouts, as well as speed up its response...