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The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a non-profit multi-country risk pooling initiative providing parametric hurricane or earthquake disaster cover to Caribbean countries, has scheduled its long-awaited parametric excess rainfall insurance product for the end of this year. Originally targeted for 2010, the product was eventually delayed due to the conclusion that the model used […]

The Micro Insurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation (MiCRO) has signed a grant agreement supporting their parametric catastrophe micro-insurance programme for Haiti with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The CDB will be administering the multi-donor trust fund that supports the operations of MiCRO.

Reinsurer Swiss Re and it’s member colleagues of the Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation (MiCRO) are to develop a parametric microinsurance policy aimed at women entrepreneurs in Haiti. The scheme will offer a way to enable Haitian women struck by cholera with a rapid insurance payment for income lost by their businesses due to their illness. […]

Fonkoze, a lender of micro-loans to small businessmen and farmers in Haiti, have now paid out over $1m in damages to its 3,800 borrowers after heavy rainfall triggered the Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organization (MiCRO) policies that they provide along with their loans, according to Microfinance Focus.

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a non-profit multi-country risk pooling facility providing parametric hurricane and earthquake cover to Caribbean countries, has announced that it is making its Real-Time Forecasting System available to all of its members.

Risk modeller AIR Worldwide have announced the release of a new tropical cyclone model for Central America. The new model covers Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama offering modelling technology for the effects of both wind and precipitation induced flooding which are the two main causes of damage from tropical storms […]

Business News Americas report here that a Swiss Re representative has declared that they will seek to replicate the Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation (MiCRO) to provide cover across several Caribbean and Latin American countries in the coming months.

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a non-profit multi-country risk pooling facility who provide parametric hurricane and earthquake cover to Caribbean countries, has had to delay the launch of its long awaited excess rainfall insurance product.

The Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation (MiCRO) facility, which was launched in April by a high-profile partnership of companies, is reported (by Microfinance Focus) to have been triggered in Haiti during recent heavy rain and flooding in Haiti. The facility provides a microinsurance product which utilises a parametric trigger to settle claims after specific catastrophes including […]

Update: For our latest on Hurricane Tomas please view this post. The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season is proving to be one of the most unpredictable on record. Tropical storm Tomas formed yesterday, very far south for the time of year. It is extremely unusual to have such a large storm so far south this late […]