Covenant Underwriters, the e-commerce insurance program administrator, is using Location Intelligence API from RMS®, a Moody’s Analytics company and world-leading risk modeling and solutions company, to provide real-time premium indications to its clients during the quotation process.
RMS Location Intelligence API offers market-leading, high-resolution, location-level hazard, risk, and loss metrics delivered directly into underwriting workflows. Clients using Location Intelligence API benefit from trusted model data to help customize pricing for each policy, helping avoid adverse selection and to provide greater opportunities for dynamic pricing. Location Intelligence API is available in multiple countries and covers key modeled perils like hurricane, flood, earthquake, wildfire, convective storm, and more.
Daniel Murray, Chief Underwriter at Covenant Underwriters, said: “Covenant has developed an API-powered rating algorithm that leverages big data and artificial intelligence to produce an instant price indication for any given address. Using an application programming interface (API) to integrate RMS knowledge and insight directly into the Covenant platform, enables our retail brokers to craft the winning terms during the quote process.”
Marisa Ruscitto, Managing Director, RMS, said: “The RMS Location Intelligence API enables users to benefit from a competitive advantage with real-time, location-level hazard, risk, and loss metrics. Using these metrics not only helps with risk selection but also pricing, screening, and referrals. As underwriting workflows automate rapidly, an increasing number of industry leaders are adopting real-time underwriting processes and decision-making capability to quickly match risk to capital, and to better support their clients and their business.”