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With the insurance industry hugely affected by weather, the need to be aware of past and future severe weather events is critical for accurate claims handling and effective customer service. The Met Office provides services specially designed for insurers that can help reduce claims leakage levels and improve the efficiency of your overall claims-handling process and resource planning activities.

 

Link to more about postcoded past weather information
 
We can offer postcoded, past weather information to help with claims management and reduce claims leakage costs. This innovative service has been designed to match the weather data needs of the insurance industry, helping to resolve claims quickly and efficiently.
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Link to more about risk assessments

Access to the National Meteorological Archive allows quick access to past weather data - we're also working with insurance companies worldwide to include weather hazards in their risk assessment models.
More about risk assessments

 

Link to contact us for more information

Be one step ahead of your competitors and customers: we can supply advance forecasts of severe weather that may lead to high levels of claims, allowing you to take pre-emptive action. We can supply these direct to your operations centre.
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Link to more about MORECS

The Met Office Rainfall and Evaporation Calculation System (MORECS) provides real-time assessments of rainfall, evaporation and soil moisture for multiple areas across the UK. It can help you assess and monitor the scale of historical subsidence claims.
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Link to more about weather sensitivity analysis

This is a specialised service designed to establish the correlation between weather and your business performance. It considers factors such as call-centre volumes and claimant patterns during extreme weather.
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Link to more about weather and climate consultancy

Climate change will affect us all. At the Met Office, we have world-leading scientists and consultants who can help you understand how future changes may impact on the insurance industry.
More about weather and climate consultancy

 

 
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