London, 28th October, 2021: Leading geospatial imagery and re/insurance intelligence company, McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with digital first Managing General Agent (MGA) McCosh Holdings Ltd, trading as Yokahu.
Yokahu uses parametric underwriting and data visualisation to provide Hurricane/Tropical Cyclone protection to everyday people. The business is an approved Coverholder at Lloyd’s and is set to launch in four jurisdictions in 2021 – Jamaica, the US Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, and St Lucia – with further expansion in 2022.
The partnership sees MIS become the sole trigger data provider for Yokahu’s first-to-market parametric hurricane insurance product. MIS will be the independent third party verifying the parametric triggers for insurance payouts during an event, using automated intelligence from its Global Events Observer (GEO).
McKenzie Intelligence Services Founder Forbes McKenzie said: “It is really heartening to see two insurtechs team up to support pioneering parametric insurance products that ultimately improve the resilience of people at risk of natural disasters.
I’m delighted to be partnering with Tim and the innovative team at Yokahu to verify the parametric triggers for its ground-breaking hurricane insurance product. We originally supported Tim and his team as the data set provider to support the underwriting models for this product, so we are confident in this next step. Using GEO’s multi-source intelligence, MIS will help deliver independent, fast and accurate trigger verification to support claims decisions and payments for customers.
This is innovative thinking at its best – the benefits of the parametric approach means that immediate help, resources and security can be available in the event of a hurricane.”
Tim McCosh, Founder of Yokahu, said: “We are excited to form this partnership with McKenzie Intelligence Services, which will see us harness their leading edge technology to provide independent verification of parametric event triggers – further cementing the confidence and trust in our solutions.
From the day we created Yokahu and established our mission to close the hurricane protection gap, we vowed to be completely transparent, honest and do everything we can to ensure our customers and community understand all aspects of our operations and what we are able to provide.
The average cost of hurricane insurance is inaccessible to most people, with traditional hurricane insurance products requiring people to pay premiums against the value of their homes.
Our parametric approach means that a claims payout is determined by the severity of the event at hand – and therefore can be triggered automatically. And we have arranged these funds to be transferred to an individual’s mobile phone so they have easy access when it matters most.
We have future ambitions beyond hurricane and our partnership with MIS will enable us to create new products more quickly whilst maintaining customer and underwriter trust.”
Notes to Editors:
About Yokahu
Yokahu is a Parametric Insurtech MGA that offers affordable, fast paying and simple natural disaster protection. Our solution provides access to catastrophe insurance to previously neglected markets and helps alleviate the immediate and long term economic impacts of the disaster. Yokahu’s mission is to be the first answer in protecting communities from natural disasters by providing access to new, affordable products and dedicated rapid support.
In the UK, Yokahu is a trading name of McCosh Holdings Ltd. McCosh Holdings Ltd and is an Appointed Representative of ES Risks Limited. ES Risks Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
For more information, please visit: www.yokahu.co
About McKenzie Intelligence Services
McKenzie Intelligence Services is an insurtech providing AI driven Geographic Information System (GIS) Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to the insurance and related verticals. The Global Events Observer (GEO) platform is a market leading platform providing real life peril data to insurers to enable an effective, efficient and cost-effective response to a catastrophic event anywhere on Earth.
For more information, please visit: https://www.mckenzieintelligence.co.uk/
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