Catastrophe Modelling

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InsTech’s Ali Smedley speaks to Dag Lohman, CEO and Co-founder of KatRisk, about how climate data is built into its hurricane and flood models, the data challenges of ESG reporting and what is needed to create catastrophe models.

This report reviews the techniques and tools available today to help insurers understand, manage and mitigate natural hazard risk for properties they are insuring. We include perspectives from an insurer, broker and MGA on the current hazard data and catastrophe modelling market and profile the InsTech members providing relevant models, data and technology.

We’re covering two main themes here – building a business that survives and thrives after ten years – and assessing the growing risk from a flood. We’ve been working closely with Fathom for many years. In Matthew Grant’s discussion with the co-founders of Fathom, ...

Fathom and Reask: Tropical Cyclone and Flood – Managing Tomorrow’s Climate Risk Today For insurers, catastrophe models and hazard data are essential for risk selection, pricing and portfolio management. It is necessary to ensure that no singular catastrophic event can disproportionately impact the loss to ...

Data and analytical tools to identify and measure the potential impact of natural hazards were first released about 30 years ago and have continued to evolve and expand since. Preventing or reducing losses by identifying and incentivising actions the policyholder can take to make their property ...

JBA Risk Management provides catastrophe models, flood maps and analytics worldwide to the insurance, financial, property and international development sectors. Judith Ellison, the Climate Commercial Lead at JBA Risk, talks to Matthew about the challenges of meeting multiple demands from different clients and sectors, the ...

Member Spotlight: Oasis Loss Modelling Framework Why did you set up the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework? In 2012 I founded Oasis, a not-for-profit, open-source catastrophe modelling platform. It was created to increase the model choice for the insurance and reinsurance industry, whilst democratising risk for developing ...

Changes to the US government’s National Flood Insurance Programme have created opportunities for insurers to offer alternative solutions for protection against flood risk. Fathom is one of the technology companies helping insurers to do that by providing accurate flood modelling hazard data for the ...

Using its own constellation of microsatellites, ICEYE is providing insurers with high-resolution, building-level flood depths around the world immediately after an event. VP of Solutions Charles Blanchet joins Matthew to discuss how the company is making satellite technology commercially viable, and how insurers are now ...

Gamma Location Intelligence harnesses AI, data science and spatial analytics to produce solutions to geographical questions. Chief Commercial Officer Richard Garry talks to Simon about location intelligence innovation and how Gamma is helping insurers to reduce risk.  Simon: Can you start with some background ...