Everybody in California knows that the big one is coming.

You ask every single person on the street is, is a big earthquake coming?

Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're like 10 months pregnant.

Well, it's all about wildfires in California just now as we're releasing this.

But although there haven't been any major earthquakes in the US since Northridge in 1994 in Los Angeles

and Loma Prieta in 1989, that was San Francisco.

Clearly that risk is still on everyone's mind who lives on the West Coast.

This is Matthew Grant, partner at INSDEC, London, and this week I have another fellow former engineer

to talk to Kate Stilwell, founder of Jumpstart.

Now this is such a great story on so many levels.

It's about one person and, of course, our colleagues, who has pushed through many challenges

to deliver on a vision of providing help to communities after disasters. It's about parametric

insurance and practical solution where this offers coverage not available through conventional

insurance. And like all good stories, there's a rescue at the 11th hour when things look practical solution where this offers coverage not available through conventional insurance and like

all good stories there's a rescue at the 11th hour when things look doomed now if you're wondering what

a parametric insurance is all about then do look at for a forthcoming report we're going to be

releasing reviewing what's happening in the market for parametric insurance something that actually

has been going on for at least the last two decades and And also the companies we think you should take a look at.

It's going to be free to members and free to download in the first four weeks.

If you want to get a taster for all that's all about, then you can hunt down a couple of

articles I wrote on LinkedIn earlier this year. Now, if you're one of our regular listeners or if indeed this is your first time,

well welcome, and of course you can find out everything that we're up to and learn about our

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