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Daniel Grimwood-Bird, McKenzie Intelligence Services & Troy Stewart, Brush Claims: The partners improving post claims loss assessment (219)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens

InsTech

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.9 • 51 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) provides catastrophe event response intelligence to the insurance market. It combines space and ground imagery with human intelligence and AI to estimate losses, helping insurers aggregate exposure data. Brush Claims is a US-based property and liability claims service provider. Matthew Grant and Ali Smedley spoke to Daniel Grimwood-Bird, Head of Sales and Marketing at MIS and Troy Stewart, COO and President at Brush Claims. They cover the way the two companies are working together and how responses to future events will change as a result. Other talking points include: MIS’ provision of event intelligence following Hurricane Ian How MIS integrates data from various sources into its GEO platform to estimate losses How MIS identifies flood and wind damage at the property level using satellites and Synthetic Aperture Radar Troy’s experience at the Lloyd’s Lab The detrimental impact of uncertainty on a claims process and how MIS and Brush Claims partnership is addressing this How Brush works with InsTech members Liberty Specialty Markets and Markel International Learn more about MIS including our past interviews, podcasts and reports here. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. To find out more about InsTech, our membership and offerings visit www.instech.co or contact us hello@instech.co Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech podcast or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. The Learning Objectives for this podcast are: Describe some of the ways integrating data can have a healthy impact on a business when measuring losses Identify how collaboration between businesses can improve event intelligence and responses List some examples of how advances in science and technology play a key role in understanding flood and wind damage severity If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 219 page of the InsTech website or email cpd@instech.co to let us know you have listened to this podcast. To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey.

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome back or this is the first time. We're delighted to have you along. Matthew

0:14.4

Grant here, your host for the Instech podcast. Now, we are back up in the air this week, finding

0:18.6

out more about the world of satellite imagery and who's using it.

0:22.3

If you're a regular listener with a good memory, you may recall we had Forbes McKenzie,

0:26.7

founder and CEO of McKenzie Intelligence Services, or MIS, talking to me for episode 99 back

0:33.0

in August 2020.

0:34.5

Well, we're delighted up MIS as a corporate member and we've been following the team

0:37.9

closely as it's built out the business and expanded beyond the original work it did with Lloyds.

0:42.6

This week, I'm helped out by Alice Medley, our research lead for climate and location.

0:46.5

And we're talking to Dan Grimwood Bird from MIS and Troy Stewart, CEO and president from

0:52.2

MIS client to partner, Brush Country Claims.

0:55.0

Now we get an update on how both companies are collaborating to help clients get access to faster,

0:59.0

more accurate claims assessment with a particular focus on what happened after Hurricane Ian.

1:04.0

I'm wrapping this up after completing our last live face-to-face event for the year last night,

1:09.0

another lively evening session with well

1:10.9

over 100 people in the audience. More evening events, dinners and workshops to follow in

1:16.0

2023, but we're giving our friends in insurance and technology some breathing space

1:20.1

over December. Plenty more coming in the podcast, though, and reports and news, so keep an eye

1:24.8

out for what we're up to at www.com.

1:37.1

Troy, Dan, great to have you on board. And we've got Ali joining us today as well. So this is

1:41.7

very exciting. I think it's the biggest podcast we have done.

1:45.2

But just by way of introduction, McKenzie Intelligence Service or MIS, we're going to be referring

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