Nearly a decade ago, a generation of startups promised to transform the insurance business with new types of data and algorithms to more accurately assess risk and price policies. So far, that hasn’t happened.

0:00 / 0:00 Play Fullscreen Download Mute Cast Captions Playback speed Listen to article Length (6 minutes) AD Loading advertisement... 00:00 / 06:28 1x This article is in your queue. Open Queue Blockchain, the technology underpinning bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, for years has been viewed by some companies as a way to drive industry-transforming projects, among them the tracking of assets through complex supply chains. So far, that hasn’t happened. The latest effort to run aground was...