The rise of InsurTech

In recent years, InsurTech has acted as an increasingly disruptive influence in the insurance sector, using technology and innovation to improve the efficiency of existing transactions and processes and to enhance customer experience, writes Georgina Perrott of Birketts LLP. InsurTech currently sits under the wider umbrella of FinTech, although the recent increase in the focus on InsurTech is leading to it becoming an industry sector in its own right.