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Christopher Lotz • 6 Aug 2020 • 6 min read
Is insurance more expensive in Black neighborhoods?
Black neighborhoods pay 20% more in renters insurance. With the recent Black Lives Matter protests much of society has been re-examining explicit and implicit sources of discrimination against Black people in America. What are the conscious and unconscious ways our society and economy harm Black citizens? Housing and its associated cost has historically played a critical role in institutionalizing racism and segregation. Even insurance companies have historically discriminated against Black pe
Christopher Lotz • 12 May 2020 • 5 min read
Coronavirus and Crime – what the COVID is happening in SF?
Coronavirus and crime trends, a look at the impact COVID19 and stay-at-home order is having in San Francisco.
Dan Di Spaltro • 17 Apr 2020 • 2 min read
Why is Renter's Insurance Required by some Landlords?
Landlords have begun requiring tenants to buy renter's insurance, we go into the details on the rationale behind that. They are after one specific protection...
Team Goodcover • 31 Mar 2020 • 5 min read
Displaced by a crisis like COVID-19? What to know about your renters insurance coverage.
If you’ve had to move because of the COVID-19 crisis, you might be asking the status of your insurance: is my stuff still covered? Do I need to update my insurer? Is my insurance going to get cancelled? We’ve been fielding these questions from our Members as colleges and universities have shut campuses, people have moved home to be with family, and some such as nurses and EMTs have temporarily moved to be closer to their life-saving work. (PS If you are a medical responder, we’d love to pay the
Christopher Lotz • 27 Mar 2020 • 3 min read
COVID-19: Free Renters Insurance for Medical Responders
Goodcover is offering Nurses, Doctors, and other medical responders free renters insurance for the rest of 2020.
Christopher Lotz • 24 Mar 2020 • 3 min read
Goodcover & COVID-19: Full Service and Flexible Deadlines
Firstly, I hope you and your family are safe and healthy, and staying home as much as possible. To our Members and community, here’s how we’re serving you during this time: * Goodcover remains open and operational during the COVID-19 crisis. * Claims management and support remains unaffected. * We have implemented a 60 day grace period on overdue premium payments. * We have extended our deadlines for providing various documentation, appraisals, and valuations. Goodcover remains open Acc
Dan Di Spaltro • 1 Mar 2020 • 1 min read
Save for Later
At Goodcover, we like to say Insurance is a considered purchase. To us this means that you grab a cup of coffee, open your laptop, sit down, make some choices, and buy a policy. This also means someone else special in your life might be involved in this process. Enter save for later. We added a feature during the quoting process to email yourself a link. You can pick up where you left off on any device after you click that link. Surprisingly, we've seen ~60% of people who use the feature start
Christopher Lotz • 6 Feb 2020 • 3 min read
Announcing Goodcover Renters Insurance
At Goodcover, our mission is to make financial security accessible for all. Today we’re launching our first product that helps us reach this mission: Goodcover Renters Insurance.
Dan Di Spaltro • 1 Feb 2020 • 6 min read
Information extraction in Scala with Odin (NLP/NLU)
There are a lot of tools out there that help extract information from text, and in this post I hope to cover one which I’ve found to be…
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