Any owner insuring property – including garages, sheds, outbuildings, gates and fences – must provide an estimate of the total cost to rebuild it from scratch. Often, people mistakenly put the current market value or the purchase price they paid, but getting this figure wrong...
Insurers operating in the competitive domestic market face a dilemma. On one hand, there is a desire to take on new business and serve existing clients better, on the other Insurers want to optimise their portfolio risk. Bringing Location Intelligence and Data Analytics to bear...
This time last year Met Eireann released three weather warnings, as eight counties faced the threat of flooding. With the April Showers approaching, it seems like a good time to assess the geography of flood risk in Ireland. Using our risk mapping platform Perilfinder, using...
During the night of Sunday 23rd September, a sinkhole opened up on the lands of Magheraclone GAA Club near Carrickmacross in County Monaghan. Pictures from @BorderRegionTV clearly show deep crevasses running across the club’s grounds. Luckily nobody was injured; however, local roads and schools are closed as...
I gave a keynote presentation at the GIS Ireland conference on November 15th. The plenary session was themed on Climate Change and I spoke about one aspect of that which is particularly impacting on Ireland: flooding. There is a large amount of capital expenditure by government...
Wednesday 15th November, which was World GIS Day, saw the rescheduled GIS Ireland conference take place following its postponement in October due to Hurricane Ophelia. The irony of an event themed on Climate Change being postponed due to Climate Change was not lost on the conference...
Empowering Data-Driven Underwriting Decisions The recognition of being the No. 1 provider of underwriting mapping software in Ireland comes with responsibility, which is why we aim to improve the usability of our software continuously based on feedback. Perilfinder 2.0 version was released earlier this year and...
The latest release of Perilfinder, version 3.0, is out now. The focus of this release was to make the interface and reporting simpler, faster and smarter. So, what’s new in Perilfinder 3.0? Reports Dashboard The new reports dashboard gives you an overview of your book of data...
Drivers, Roads and Road Accidents In 2011, there were 1,648,409 households in Ireland. These households between them owned 2,219,211 cars, an average of 1.35 cars per household. In Ireland in 2011, 2,704,404 people commuted to their place of work, study or occupation. 1,246,387 (41.6%) did so...
Over 240 senior executives from the international insurance industry gathered in Croke Park last week at the European Insurance Forum (EIF 2017), a premier European conference in the re/insurance calendar. As a leading provider of spatial solutions to the insurance sector in Ireland, Gamma was one...
