Chubb has entered its first insurtech collaboration in Australia under an agreement with Qikio.

Qikio has an office on the Sunshine Coast and in Melbourne and is currently developing an Australian-based contact centre.

It will distribute new contents insurance Chubb underwrites that offers instalment payment options, simplified digital claims lodgement and dedicated Chubb customer service.

“Through our distribution arrangement with Chubb, we look forward to continuing to work together to shape a customer experience for Australians which is increasingly innovative, simple and convenient,” Co-CEO Andrew Carey, who was most recently COO at Huddle before founding Qikio in mid 2021, said.

Mr Carey was formerly acting head of direct insurance at QBE and also spent almost three years at Open Insurance and seven at Youi.

Country President Australia and New Zealand Peter Kelaher says Chubb is delighted to be working with Qikio to offer a digital contents insurance solution to a targeted segment of the Australian market.

The arrangement combines “their experience and customer-focused digital technology with Chubb’s underwriting and claims handling expertise,” he said.