Floodbase, the leading platform for insuring flood risk, and Liberty Mutual (Liberty) announced the launch of an instant quoting application for parametric flood (re)insurance in the US. This solution allows wholesale and retail brokers to price parametric flood covers in minutes, removing friction and introducing the speed required to serve the high-volume small to midsized commercial market more effectively. Designed specifically for the US market Liberty’s pricing engine, powered by Floodbase Platform’s new API, revolutionizes a traditionally time-consuming and demanding quoting process to deliver the speed and consistency that distributors need.
Large-area parametric flood covers have reached a point of product maturity, with policies now transferring the risk of economic loss at global scale for US Municipalities, Colombian Farmers, CEI’s nation-wide distributed property portfolio in Italy, and more. As the US demand for comprehensive flood risk management grows – driven by more frequent and intense flood events, rising National Flood Insurance Program premiums, and uncertainty around federal flood insurance – parametric flood is increasingly viewed as a viable complement to traditional property coverage, while also covering non-damage business interruption financial losses.
US flood risk continues to outpace private market capacity. Two-thirds of modelled US flood losses go underinsured, underscoring the need for scalable private options alongside traditional indemnity coverages. While originally constrained by basis risk and product standardization, the primary limitation today is scalable distribution.
Using a solution such as the instant parametric flood quoting application from Liberty, powered by the Floodbase API, brokers and MGAs can now bring the large-area parametric flood into automated quoting and rating workflows, making it viable to distribute at scale across small- and mid-sized commercial markets where speed, consistency, and operational efficiency are essential. With multiple optimized structures and pricing options, the application makes flood policies easy to quote, simple to position, and low-effort to transact – while providing a differentiated parametric offering that was previously limited to complex, bespoke placements.
Jean-Christophe Garaix, head of Parametrics & Agriculture at Liberty Mutual said: “This collaboration enables us to respond to evolving flood risk with faster, more adaptable solutions. It’s the same coverage—just delivered faster and with far less friction, enabling the brokers to effectively explore and customize a client’s flood coverage in seconds before even emailing an underwriter. That not only improves the client and distribution experience, it enables us to respond to evolving flood risk with novel parametric products for small-and-medium market segments.”
“Parametric flood can be an effective risk management instrument bridging protection gaps in traditional policies for small-and-medium businesses in the US – but that requires rapid distribution at scale,” added Bessie Schwarz, Co-founder and CEO of Floodbase. “Liberty’s new instant parametric flood quoting solution solves that, giving U.S. brokers and MGAs the flexibility to embed rapid parametric flood cover into their own quoting environments, enabling scalable distribution across small- and mid-market segments.” This is enabled by the new API that Floodbase has developed and launched to enable any (re)insurer to embed parametric flood directly into quoting and rating workflows. To learn more, contact Floodbase.
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