California Wildfires 2021: Responding to a 75 day long season
we can enable a much more nuanced assessment of their loss footprint and help speed up the process for claims payments, ease the extent of claims costs, and, most importantly, benefit the policyholder. – MIS The Situation Over the last decade, wildfires have raged in California annually, wreaking utter devastation where they occur and […]
McKenzie Intelligence Services shortlisted for shortlisted for the Insurance Insider Awards 2022: InsureTech Solution of the Year award.
We are delighted that MIS and our Global Events Observer (GEO) have been confirmed as a finalist for the prestigious Insurance Insider Honours Insurtech Solution of the Year Award. In being shortlisted for this award, we would like to thank the expert judging panel for taking the time to review our submission and for recognising […]
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail – how ready are you for storm season?
Lloyds of London and the MIS team hosted an afternoon event in the Old Library on June 15th to discuss preparing for storm season 2022. We want to be prepared in the best possible way to deal with any upcoming catastrophic events and, more importantly, ensure our clients can provide their clients with the most […]
McKenzie Intelligence Services and Geo-Data Specialist, Fugro Announce Key Partnership
London, 27 June 2022: Leading geospatial imagery and re/insurance intelligence company McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) is pleased to announce a key strategic partnership with Fugro, the world’s leading Geo-Data specialist. Under the terms of the agreement, Fugro will provide MIS with crucial high-resolution aerial imagery immediately after a disaster. This will complement MIS’s existing […]
Will Davis joins MIS as a Client Solutions Analyst
Will Davis recently joined the Product team at MIS as a Client Solutions analyst from global insurance broker, Aon. In his role at Aon, Will worked as an International Property Broker, gaining experience dealing with client risk data, managing client-insurer relationships, and placing complex client insurance programs. Also a graduate of the University of Durham, Will […]
McKenzie Intelligence Services Affirms Security Credentials with ISO 27001 Certification
London, 22 April 2022: Geospatial imagery and re/insurance intelligence company, McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), is delighted to announce that it has received ISO 27001 certification – the internationally recognised standard for the establishment and certification of an information security management system. The ISO framework helps companies to ensure they have completed all the requirements and checks to have […]
Hurricane Ida’s impact on Louisiana’s Southern Coast.
The Problem Hurricane Ida made landfall on Louisiana’s southern coast on 29 August 2021 (16 years to the day of Hurricane Katrina) as a Category 4 system with sustained winds of 150mph (241kph). Ida’s impact was immediate and far ranging with storm surge into the low lying coastal areas, flooding roads and small coastal communities as well as […]
Near real time hazard data- around us and above us featuring Forbes McKenzie
Our CEO Forbes McKenzie participated in InsTech London podcast about real time hazard data where he discussed McKenzie Intelligence Services Ltd, our GEO platform updates and much more. You can find the podcast by clicking the link: https://www.instech.london/podcast/near-real-time-hazard-data-around-us-above-us.
INSTECH: A case study in collecting actionable data in the era of extreme floods.
In this panel discussion Rosina Smith, our head of product, explains how we use multiple data sources to provide rapid, accurate insight and intelligence into natural catastrophes. Please get in touch if you’d like to see how we combined this insight with our other feeds to develop applied intelligence for our insurance clients. You can […]
Assessing insurance risk and damage in the digital age
The European Space Agency – ESA has published an article highlighting the MIS GEO platform. GEO amalgamates highly accurate geotagged data from a range of sources to identify and track damage to property and infrastructure caused by catastrophic events such as natural disasters, allowing insurers to better serve their clients in their time of need From 1970 […]