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Massachusetts-based Oyster Insurance Launches Workers’ Comp Insurance in NY & NJ

August 20, 2018 by AC Editor

Oyster Insurance is based in Waltham, Mass.

Another Massachusetts-based insurtech has launched, albeit not here in the Commonwealth. On August 17th, Waltham-based Oyster Insurance began offering Workers’ Comp. insurance in both New York and New Jersey.

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The company is the newest insurtech focusing on the small business insurance marketplace…

While the company officially incorporated itself in July of 2017, the company has been in stealth mode since then. It wasn’t until July 18, 2018 that its Twitter Account activated with the following tweet:

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and as for what the company aims to do it, the following is its mission statement from its webpage says that, “Oyster was born to fuse technology, empathy, and expertise to make insurance what it should be: simple and stress-free.”

The following is a screenshot of their homepage which you can click to continue on to the site:

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Interested in more insurtech news?

Then you might be interested in our most recent insurtech interview with CoverWallet – a New York-based insurtech focusing on the small commercial insurance space.

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CoverWallet is a rapidly growing online insurtech platform for small commercial policies which focuses on being both high tech, as well as high touch.


 

 

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