Data analytics in the property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector has become essential for creating products and solutions that can respond to the growing frequency and severity of natural catastrophe (CAT) events in North America. Last week you were reading How Can Organizations Reduce Their Cyber Insurance Premiums? This week weāre bringing you:
Insurers and reinsurers could face claims as high as US$10 billion in a worst-case scenario due to the grounding of planes in Russia, Fitch Ratings said.
More than 500 planes that are financed or owned by non-Russian lessors are stranded in Russia due to sanctions imposed by numerous western countries in response to Russiaās invasion of Ukraine, said a Fitch commentary.
The lessors have hull and liability insurance, as well as specific aviation war cover, and will call on their insurance to be indemnified against expropriation of their planes, Fitch explained. Most aviation policies are underwritten through Lloydās of London, and Fitch estimated that 30%ā40% of primary insurersā exposure is ceded to reinsurers.
Industry experts estimate the total insured residual value of the grounded aircraft at US$13 billion, said Fitch. āHull insurance will typically have aggregate loss limits in place, which means that potential hull insurance claims should be significantly below US$13 billion: we estimate US$5 billionā$6 billion in a realistic scenario,ā Fitch added.
āHowever, we believe total insurance claims could be as high as US$10 billion in a worst-case scenario, which would be by far the largest annual claims in the history of aviation insurance.ā
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Data analytics in the property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector has become essential for creating products and solutions that can respond to the growing frequency and severity of natural catastrophe (CAT) events in North America.
Kristin Marr, head of analytics at Insurity, has been in the technology space for the last 20 years, helping the industry understand and build out data analytics infrastructure and embedded insurance solutions to help P&C carriers and managing general agents (MGAs) stay agile.
āData analytics should be portable as customers use many software tools to run their business,ā she said. āWe help customers make informed decisions in underwriting, claims, and portfolio management to improve profitability and response time.ā
One helpful tool for managing CAT events is geospatial analytics, which gathers location-based data such as GPS and satellite imagery, helping insurers in the P&C sector make more informed decisions based on a regionās unique risk landscape. Geospatial risk mapping has evolved rapidly over the past few years to help create the most comprehensive products.
āA great part of what is happening in the geospatial space is predictive analytics,ā Marr explained. āSince first coming into the P&C industry, Iāve seen this technology become critical for carriers and MGAs in order to stay competitive.ā
There is an insatiable appetite for carriers and MGAs to consume data to make actionable and insightful moves to remain key players in the marketplace, but many are trying to build product platforms that arenāt scalable.
āOnboarding data sources and providers, and building plugins can be very expensive,ā Marr said. āThe implementation strategy needs to provide flexibility to test out multiple data sources to figure out what works best for a particular business case.
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