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Weatherbill changes company name to The Climate Corporation

News 11th October 2011

Weatherbill, a company we have written about many times who offer weather insurance products linked to actual weather conditions and often underwritten by weather derivatives trading, have decided to change their company name to better reflect their mission to help the world’s people and businesses adapt to climate change. The company will now be called […]

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WeatherBill announces Total Weather Insurance™

News 16th November 2010

WeatherBill, the weather insurance specialists who offer a number of products such as their RainCheck insurance, have launched a new product offering what they call Total Weather Insurance™ to the U.S. agriculture industry. Available for the 2011 crop year the new product is said to offer unprecedented protection for farmers profits.

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Weatherbill to guarantee revenue for food festival organisers

News 28th April 2009

Weatherbill have completed a novel weather insurance cover for the organisers of Belgium’s largest outdoor culinary festival. Taste of Antwerp, in it’s fifth year, takes place in August. It’s essentially a food festival at which renowned chefs and caterers provide the entertainment in the form of small plates of their food to the thousands who […]

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Weatherbill to offer ‘white label’ weather derivatives and insurance platform

News 31st March 2009

WeatherBill has announced a first in the weather derivative and weather insurance marketplace with the release of a new platform WeatherBill White Label. The white label solution offers a completely bespoke platform that can power third party branded weather insurance and weather derivative programs. The platform automates weather coverage pricing, transaction processing, and risk management […]

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Weatherbill guarantees the sunshine in Victoria, BC

News 24th March 2009

Weatherbill have announced another of their Sunshine Guaranteed weather refund promotion deals. The latest deal is with the destination marketing organisation for Victoria, British Columbia; Tourism Victoria. The deal offers customers who book a vacation through Tourism Victoria for travel during April a $500 cash-back refund should they experience more than 1.25cm of rain in […]

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Weatherbill add more coverage locations, help to fill weather cover gaps

News 16th March 2009

Weatherbill, the online service offering easy to use tools to price and obtain weather risk insurance protection, have broadened their reach with a range of new coverage locations. New locations have been added in the U.S. northwest in areas which have historically been underserved by crop weather insurance. These areas are regions where various speciality […]

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