FlatCat® Canada offers easy access to the entire PCS® catastrophe-history database. Users benefit from fast, flexible delivery of severe weather and catastrophe incident information back to 2009. The data can be customized, analyzed, and integrated right into your own system.
FlatCat Canada supplies up-to-date, relevant information including catastrophe serial numbers, extensions, and loss estimates. The data helps you analyze the effects of catastrophes by province and by storm type.
Better allocate capital and other resources
Improve underwriting
Streamline catastrophe planning
Optimize your reinsurance purchases and other forms of risk transfer
FlatCat data can be used to identify claims that should be coded as catastrophe losses. Fewer claims will slip through the cracks, eliminating the need to check information manually. You’ll also be able to format the data, integrate it into your own system, create customized reports, and perform a broad range of analyses.
FlatCat Canada is an encrypted flat-file database requiring IT capabilities to incorporate it into your system. Using Verisk’s secure FTP servers, FlatCat Canada provides a daily data file that includes:
Our staff will coordinate with your IT personnel to implement a daily download. Once the updates to your system are in place, the process works automatically. The data you download is always secure, as we support PGP and FTP.
C-CAT allows you to easily filter through information, including: