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WTW Offers Parametric Insurance With Weather-Warning Trigger
Willis, a business of WTW, announced the launch of a parametric policy that is activated automatically when a red weather warning is issued by the UK Met Office or Met Éireann, the Irish National ...
SiriusPoint Announces Arden Partnership, Wildfire Coverage
SiriusPoint Ltd., a global specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced a new strategic partnership with Arden Insurance Services LLC, a U.S. commercial property managing general underwriter. "We're ...
Adaptive Insurance, Tokio Marine HCC Partner on Power Outage Losses
Adaptive Insurance, a provider of parametric insurance solutions, has partnered with specialty insurer Tokio Marine HCC on GridProtect—an insurance product for short-term power outages. The ...
No NOAA Large-Disaster Data to Hurt Insurers’ Grasp of Secondary Perils, Says AM Best
Insurance industry financial strength rating agency AM Best said that a decision to stop updating a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration disaster database could be detrimental to insurers ...
Guy Carpenter to Research Parametric Solutions in California, Florida
Guy Carpenter said it is starting a research project to explore the use of parametric insurance solutions in California and Florida for wildfire and hurricane risks. The effort will focus on the use ...
University of California Purchases Sensor-Triggered Earthquake Parametric Policy
What is being called the first sensor-triggered earthquake parametric insurance policy in the U.S. was purchased by The University of California. Liberty Mutual Reinsurance, part of Liberty Mutual ...
Parametric Insurance Increasingly Aids Farmers, Others Dealing With Extreme Weather
Joemar Flores, a spindly 28-year-old, gestured across his family's farmland, nestled between a steep hill and a river, and expressed gratitude for the rice paddies in the distance. They're still ...
Thanks to AI, Industry Will Soon See Big Jump in Parametric Insurance, Consultant Says
Insurance agents must now embrace the use of artificial intelligence, but they won't be replaced by it. And the use of parametric policies will soon increase sharply across property insurance lines ...
Automated Weather Insurance Could Offer Help in an Increasingly Hot World
Carlos José Báez experienced the full brunt of Hurricane Maria when it made landfall in Puerto Rico as a catastrophic storm in 2017.