Parametric insurance news

The CCRIF SPC (formerly known as the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility), has made a US $2.4 million payout to Trinidad & Tobago after the Caribbean nations parametric excess rainfall insurance policy was triggered recently.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the large commercial risk specialist unit of the global reinsurance firm, is expanding the utility of its parametric tropical cyclone insurance product with the help of Reask, a climate analytics and data company that uses machine learning techniques.

The government of Indonesia has launched a new disaster risk pooling facility that will initially have more than US $500 million of capacity available to help pay for the economic costs of natural catastrophes and severe weather events, but with a future goal of transferring some or all of the risk to private insurance or […]

The Government of Haiti will receive a payout of roughly US $40 million after its CCRIF parametric insurance policy was triggered by the devastating earthquake that struck the country on August 14th, with $15 million to be delivered within 7 days of the event.

The devastating earthquake that struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti on August 14th is only expected to drive insurance industry losses of around US $250 million, while we’re hearing some parametric contracts are exposed.

Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS), a division of Bermuda-headquartered specialty P&C insurance and reinsurance group Sompo International, has launched a new parametric insurance product to cover epidemic and pandemic risks.

Arbol, a technology-led company focused on parametric risk transfer and weather insurance markets, has launched an intriguing new solution named Captive+Parametric, which is designed to help corporations better manage climate risk and climate change exposure, with the help of parametric risk transfer to captive structures.

Descartes Underwriting, the insurance technology (insurtech) focused managing general agency (MGA) that specialises in parametric and data-driven risk transfer products, is expanding into Asia Pacific with two new offices opening in Singapore and Sydney, Australia.

In June we wrote about the launch of a project to develop an innovative parametric insurance program to protect the Mesoamerican Reef system and the communities that rely on it against impacts from hurricanes.

The CCRIF SPC (formerly known as the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility), has confirmed that it made a number of payouts after the passage of hurricane Elsa, as member parametric insurance policies and deductible covers were triggered, its first payouts of the 2021 hurricane season.