Automated Event Response

Australian tropical cyclones are among the region’s most severe natural hazards, capable of producing destructive winds and widespread damage. By providing consistent, event‑driven loss estimates without manual intervention, the solution enables insurers and reinsurers to respond decisively to the financial and operational challenges posed by high‑severity cyclone events.

Typhoons affect Japan mainly between July and October every year and are among the most damaging perils besides earthquakes. Advancements in global observing systems and computing resources offering more reliable forecasts of storm tracks enable insurers today to have a first-hand grasp of their potential business losses several hours before a typhoon makes landfall.

In the 21^st Century, windstorms have caused nearly $100 billion in insured losses across Europe. Automated Event Response helps insurers overcome the complexity of Europe wind events, delivering near‑real‑time loss estimates, and continuously updating impacts across countries and perils—enabling faster, more confident decision making. The AER for Europe wind utilizes weather forecast data from multiple European meteorological agencies, as well as wind gust observations from more than 4,000 stations.

Hailstorms have produced significant multi-billion euro losses in recent years. Impact Forecasting provides a rapid post-event service for estimating the impact of these on European portfolios, relying on hail observations.

Automated Event Response for Global Flood provides a rapid way of assessing impact on re/insurers’ portfolios based on flood extent data provided by ICEYE. These satellite-based products offer a globally consistent perspective of potential impacts from one of the costliest global perils. The AER also contains an indicative forecast of global flood risk within the next 4 days.

Atlantic hurricanes are among the most destructive perils, capable of driving widespread damage and outsized, rapidly evolving losses. Automated Event Response delivers fully automated, real‑time loss insights for these high‑severity events, converting live hazard and damage data into timely, portfolio‑specific intelligence as conditions unfold. U.S Hurricane AER utilizes latest available forecasting data, including AI-driven hurricane models.

Severe Convective Storms in the U.S. have emerged as one of the most volatile sources of catastrophe loss for the insurance industry. Against continued loss pressure from SCS on insurers’ profitability, the AER solution is designed to support faster, more confident decisions during active events and in the critical days that follow. By delivering daily, decision ready loss and claims count estimates, AER helps insurers manage SCS volatility across underwriting, exposure management, reinsurance and claims.

Motivated by the 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires in California, which resulted in multi billion dollar financial losses, the Automated Event Response for U.S. Wildfire utilizes the latest ICEYE building damage estimates to provide near real time estimates of exposed limit on clients’ exposure.

Australian bushfires can escalate rapidly, with much of the season’s burned area and loss potential concentrated into short, intense periods. Automated Event Response for Australia Bushfire uses near real time bushfire perimeters from the Digital Atlas of Australia to generate timely, portfolio specific estimates of exposed limit. This automated service helps insurers and reinsurers respond more quickly and confidently to active bushfire events.