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Intact-backed insurtech launches insurance with Amazon

By Aurélia Morvan | Aug. 12, 2020, 4:53 p.m.

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Amazon is advancing into the insurance market via an insurtech backed by firms that include Intact Ventures, an Intact Financial Corporation subsidiary.

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