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Parametric insurance news
Parametric insurance and parametric reinsurance are growth areas for the industry. We cover news on many forms of parametric risk transfer to provides our readers with insights into developments in the re/insurance market related to parametric triggers.
Parametric insurance utilises catastrophe event, weather, or other data parameters to define payout structures and triggers for contracts. It is considered a fast, pre-defined payout system, with payouts coming due when a specific, objective event occurs and a pre-defined parameter is reached, rather than assessing actual physical loss like traditional indemnity insurance.
This archive features our news on the use of parametric triggers to structure insurance or reinsurance protection, as well as discussion on the benefits of parametric triggers as transparent, fast-paying trigger mechanisms for providing parametric insurance and reinsurance coverage.
Cooper Gay confirms acquisition of Meteo Protect brand & tech
20th April 2020
Cooper Gay France, the European brokerage and wholesale managing general agency (MGA), has acquired the brand and technology of parametric and weather index insurance specialist and Lloyd's of London coverholder, Meteo Protect. The agreement provides Cooper Gay, which is part of the BGC Partners broking group, with stronger capabilities in the ... Read the full article
Global Parametrics targets coverage for Costa Rice coffee farmers
17th April 2020
Global Parametrics, a parametric and index-based risk transfer startup backed by the UK and German governments, has partnered with Arbol Inc. and Propina to provide coverage to smallholder coffee farmers in Costa Rica. Propina is a non-profit organisation with a platform that connects coffee consumers to coffee farmers around the world ... Read the full article
Parsyl raises $15m, launches suite of tech-enabled cargo insurance products
16th April 2020
Approved Lloyd's coverholder and supply chain data platform, Parsyl, Inc., has announced that Parsyl Insurance has launched a suite of connected cargo insurance solutions for perishable goods, called ColdCover. The new suite of solutions will be powered by the firm's IoT data platform and includes an innovative, industry-first parametric spoilage product, ... Read the full article
Dutch satellite firm VanderSat announces significant funding
7th April 2020
Dutch company VanderSat has raised several million euros to help further develop their patented satellite technology leveraged by global re/insurance firms AXA and Swiss Re. VanderSat operates internationally and can accurately measure the location and amount of water in the soil, anywhere in the world. Accurate and reliable data is used not ... Read the full article
Munich Re-backed parametric quake product launched in Mexico by Super
3rd March 2020
Super Seguros Inc., acting through their local subsidiary (which was established as Mexico's first approved insurance MGA), has announced the launch of a new parametric insurance solution to protect against earthquakes for the retail consumer market in Mexico City, backed by reinsurer Munich Re. The new solution, Super Temblor, is a ... Read the full article
Understory expands parametric hail product in US
18th February 2020
Weather network and analytics firm Understory has launched a supplemental hail insurance product for automotive dealers in five new states. Now live in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wyoming, Auto – Hail Safe was first launched in 2019 and is designed to allow auto dealers to protect their vehicles from ... Read the full article
FloodFlash pays claims one day after storm Ciara
11th February 2020
InsurTech FloodFlash, a startup which provides sensor-based parametric flood insurance to ensure rapid payouts, has revealed that it paid claims related to storm Ciara just one day after flooding. Storm Ciara (also known as European windstorm Sabine) struck Europe over the weekend, with impacts widespread due to the size of the ... Read the full article
Travel insurtech Blink launches parametric solutions platform
7th February 2020
Travel insurtech Blink has announced the launch of a platform designed to offer a range of parametric insurance solutions. Blink Parametric’s platform-based solutions span the travel, climate, energy and IoT sectors. Blink Travel offers customers a real-time insurance service with real-time compensation options for issues like flight delays or cancellation. Blink Climate is ... Read the full article
AkinovA facilitates parametric cyber purchase for Asian tech firm
5th February 2020
AkinovA, the electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of re/insurance risk, has announced that it recently facilitated the purchase of a parametric Cloud Outage product for an Asia-based technology company. Completed on January 30, 2020, this transaction will provide protection in the event that a named Cloud Service Provider (CSP) ... Read the full article
Gallagher partners with FloodFlash on parametric policy
3rd February 2020
Re/insurance broker Gallagher has announced a new partnership with insurtech start-up FloodFlash, which will enable it to provide a parametric flood insurance policy to its UK clients. The parametric policy means claims will be settled based on a pre-defined trigger point, rather than through the traditional assessment of the cost of ... Read the full article
Hiscox comments on new cyber parametric transaction
21st January 2020
Specialist re/insurer Hiscox has released a statement commenting on its recent cyber parametric risk transfer deal, which was completed with help from Guy Carpenter and PCS. Announced earlier this month, the trade was transacted electronically on the AkinovA marketplace, with full regulatory oversight from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA). The product ... Read the full article
AkinovA completes cyber parametric trade with Hiscox & GC
9th January 2020
AkinovA, the electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of re/insurance risk, has completed its first cyber parametric instrument trade. Hiscox developed, structured and provided capital for this transaction, with Guy Carpenter (GC) acting as broker and PCS as the reporting agent. The deal was carried out electronically with regulatory oversight from ... Read the full article
QOMPLX & Pro MGA Solutions partner to support parametric product launch
11th December 2019
Analytics and insurance software provider QOMPLX has expanded its strategic relationship with Pro MGA Solutions in the UK, in support of the launch of its new multi-peril parametric insurance product. QOMPLX recently announced the launch of its parametric offering, WonderCover, which was developed in partnership with international specialty re/insurance group ... Read the full article
Hannover Re backs parametric disaster fund for developing markets
9th December 2019
Hannover Re has committed $50 million of capacity to a new risk transfer fund for natural disasters, developed in partnership with the German government and Global Parametrics, a provider of parametric protection in developing markets. The NDF Deutschland has also secured initial commitments of €25 million from the German Federal Ministry ... Read the full article
Consider parametric solutions for the more intangible losses: GC’s Franco
22nd November 2019
While parametric insurance solutions provide rapid payout post-event, offering welcomed transactional speed and transparency, risk transfer mechanisms that are structured this way might be best-suited to covering direct and well-defined physical damage, according to Guillermo Franco, Global Head of Cat Risk Research at reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter. Under a parametric insurance ... Read the full article
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