Working alongside a US retail broker, Miller placed Property Damage, Business Interruption and Parametric Wind cover for a processing company in coastal Texas. Daniel Nicholls explains in the video below.
Parametric success | July 2020▶ 03:18
Miller’s strategy was to increase the self-insured retention for NWS whilst also doubling the NWS limits purchased, which helped mitigate premium increases. We then placed a Parametric Wind product to finance the larger self-insured retention, whilst also providing cover for exposures that cannot be insured under a traditional indemnity based insurance policy.
The insured also place value in the quick pay out provisions of a parametric policy, which doesn’t require the lengthy loss adjustment.
The insured also place value in the quick pay out provisions of a parametric policy, which doesn’t require the lengthy loss adjustment.
What is Parametric protection?
Parametric insurance solutions use simple, independently verifiable triggers and settlement structures.
Whilst weather-based parametric covers are the most common, with an estimated 3 in 4 companies frequently impacted financially by adverse weather, this form of insurance has a wide range of applications:
- Natural catastrophes - windstorm, earthquake, wildfire protection, hail and more
- Energy - temperature, solar radiation, wind shortfall, power outage protection and more
- Construction - temperature protection and more
- Transport – river level, rainfall protection and more
- Food - frost, drought, yield protection, market indices protection and more.