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How can insurance providers gain more flood risk insight?
Analysis by the Environment Agency indicates that there could be a large increase - of up to 50% - in the number of houses built on flood plains over the next 50 years. This blog highlights how home insurance providers can leverage geospatial data to mitigate flood risk exposure.
IoT drives innovation in insurance
The number of IoT connected devices is expected to increase to over one trillion devices by 2025, providing an enormous data set for insurance analysis. This blog highlights how IoT is driving innovation within motor and property insurance, whilst also reducing workplace risks.
FCA report on insurance for multi-occupancy buildings
Following the Grenfell tragedy, the cost of buildings insurance to residential leaseholders and other property owners of multi-occupancy buildings has increased. This report examines the causes of those increases and sets out a range of recommendations and potential remedies to address the issues.
Grenfell: Five years on
Over five years have passed since 72 victims lost their lives after a fire ripped through a building featuring unsafe cladding. This article investigates what insurers have learnt from this, how building standards have moved on and if the prospects of similar tragedies have been ruled out.
How can data enrich the property claims journey from FNOL to payments?
A recent roundtable hosted by Insurance Post in association with LexisNexis Risk Solutions saw an expert panel discuss how data enrichment can be used from a post-loss perspective and what this change could mean for the future of property claims. This article provides a summary of the discussion.
Stemming a rising tide: How insurers can close the flood protection gap
The role of insurers in closing the flood protection gap can be a crucial one, and the time to act is now. This report focuses on the state of global flood risk and highlights how insurers are well-positioned to promote a broad resilience mindset focused on pre-emptive mitigation and rapid recovery.
Video: Enabling proactive wildfire protection
Are insurance companies ready for rising global wildfire risk? In this video, Laura Drabik, chief evangelist at Guidewire Software reveals how insurers can proactively meet this pressing threat to the people they protect everywhere.
What do insurance, politics and civil unrest have in common?
Civil unrest has doubled in the last decade and general strikes have quadrupled. This blog outlines the link between insurance and business interruption caused by civil unrest.
Intelligence: Sustainable planning
With new measures being introduced to facilitate resilient repairs, this article investigates whether these steps go far enough to help insurers and their customers when faced with building claims.
New data to deal with fire tipping points for better insurance risk classification
For property fire risks we can establish fairly accurate tipping points, which allow the insurance industry to calculate risks, and the ensuing cost of claims, with greater precision. This blog focuses on new data to deal with fire tipping points for better insurance risk classification.