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WeatherBacker® Climate Event

ACE’s WeatherBacker® Climate Event Products offer a range of coverages tailored to specific weather-related risks. Available on a worldwide basis, our flexible products can be written as a stand alone policy or as an endorsement for other ACE products.

Benefits:

  • Accommodates customer preference to submit claims either by showing evidence of insured loss or by citing actual experience vs. index (e.g., how many inches of rain fell or did not fall)
  • Allows companies with multiple locations to tailor highly-customized, cost-effective solutions for each exposure
  • Businesses can choose:
    • Single event products with payouts linked to specific weather outcome, or
    • Blended products covering adverse financial effects of both weather and some other risk, such as power outage or property loss

Minimums & Limits

  • Minimum premium is $100,000.
  • Limits: Up to $10 million.

Target Client

  • Agribusinesses with drop in area-wide crop yields
  • Construction project delays or damage due to rain or freeze
  • Energy utilities with variability in temperature-related demand load
  • Event promoters to protect weather-related cancellations
  • Fruit growers experiencing drought, flood or freeze-related damage
  • Hydropower generators with low rainfall or reservoir levels
  • Municipalities with high snow removal and road salting costs
  • Offshore drilling rigs experiencing work cessation due to dangerous wind or wave heights
  • Retail stores with poor sales due to weather during critical shopping days