Blink Parametric Launches With Getcover.com
Expanded AwayCare partnership provides an innovative, real-time flight disruption solution to US travellers worldwide
Cork, Ireland (June 16, 2023) – Blink Parametric and Getcover.com, a trading name of Newpoint Insurance Brokers Limited, a London-based Lloyd’s broker, have partnered to launch a suite of bespoke online travel insurance products utilising a real-time parametric flight delay solution for their eligible travel insurance policyholders. Getcover.com is uniquely the first partner to access Blink Parametric-enabled technology via Firemelon’s Magenta Insurance System platform since the travel insurance sales and policy administration system provider forged a strategic alliance with Blink Parametric in January, enabling easy access to Blink Parametric technology. The product is underwritten by specialist insurer Financial and Legal Insurance Company Ltd (F&L).
Announcing the deal, Carl Carter, Chief Commercial Officer of Blink Parametric said: “Getcover.com is a genuine pioneer of online direct to consumer travel insurance, leading the way with innovative, accessible insurance cover and benefit solutions. We are honoured to work with the team as they differentiate their travel insurance proposition within the hyper-competitive UK travel insurance market by providing a real-time flight delay service delivering a cash payment or an airport lounge pass in a traveller’s time of need. We look forward to enhancing their travel insurance product offering and customer service delivery with immediate effect.”
Blink Parametric provides parametric as a service – (PaaS) solutions, and is a multi-award-winning global InsurTech. It transforms its clients’ traditional travel insurance offerings into superior service experiences with simple, intuitive and real-time parametric products. It specialises in high frequency, low value claims across the travel sector with market leading real-time propositions for flight delay, flight cancellation, checked luggage delay and loss.
The data-driven flight disruption solution requires an eligible traveller to simply register their flight details prior to travel. Blink Parametric then monitors the flight(s) in real-time. A flight delay that occurs to the registered flight automatically results in a traveller being notified. Getcover.com customers registered for Single or Multi-Trips are offered choices that help alleviate the stress and consequences of the delay, including airport lounge access if a flight is delayed by 2 hours or more, or a £30 cash payout per traveller, which is directly deposited into their bank account. No need for receipts, forms or phone calls.
The real-time flight delay service will be embedded at no extra cost to the policyholder within all Gold tier policies purchased direct from the Getcover.com website.
Julian Triggs, Head of Travel Partner Development, Newpoint Insurance Brokers said: “This partnership with Blink Parametric represents another significant step for Getcover.com as we steadily expand our outstanding portfolio to now include intuitive, real-time travel assistance products. We pride ourselves on offering simple to understand, value for money travel insurance so that our customers can travel worldwide with peace of mind. Blink Parametric ticked every box for us, being easy to work with and delivering a powerful, real-time customer experience that is uniquely personalised and immediately beneficial, right when our customers need assistance.”
Karen Beales, Managing Director at Financial and Legal Insurance Company Limited, which is underwriting the product, commented, “It’s great news that we are extending our underwriting support to Getcover.com. Parametric travel insurance propositions have a strong consumer focus and, as mass travel returns to pre-pandemic levels, we’re keen to support innovative parametric-powered solutions that give travellers valuable protection if their plans are disrupted.”
About Blink Parametric
Blink Parametric is a multi-award-winning global InsurTech that transforms its clients’ traditional insurance offerings into superior service experiences with simple, intuitive and transparent parametric products. Its proven platform serves as the conduit for high frequency, low value claims across Travel, with flight disruption and lost luggage solutions as well as developing solutions within the travel weather sector, business interruption and online personal data monitoring and cyber solutions. It partners globally with insurance and financial services companies in Asia, Europe, North America and Central and Latin America.
Blink Parametric was founded in 2016 and became the first Insurtech in the FCA (UK) Sandbox programme and was acquired by CPP Group (AIM CPP) in March 2017. Since then, Blink Parametric made TheINSURTECH100 (2019, 2020, 2022), an annual list of the worlds’ most innovative InsurTech companies. Selected to join Cohort 5 of the prestigious Lloyd’s Lab innovation accelerator programme in 2020, it developed a market-ready Business Interruption offering. It has progressively expanded its services platform to become a world leader in parametric consumer insurance product innovation, winning numerous awards including Gold for Excellence in Technology – Service Provider in the Insurance Times Awards 2022, Best Use of Technology for Customer Experience and Best Customer App in the 2022 Insurance Times Tech & Innovation Awards, Claims Innovation of the Year at the European Risk Management Awards 2022,Outstanding Industry Contribution of the Year at the 2022 ITIJ: International Travel & Health Insurance Journal Awards, InsurTech Specialist at the National Insurance Awards 2023 and Customer Care Solution of the Year and Claims Product Solution of the Year in the 2023 Insurance Times Claims Excellence Awards. For more information, visit blinkparametric.com.
About Getcover.com
Getcover.com is a trading name of Newpoint Insurance Brokers Limited, a Lloyd’s broker based in London. The company has continued to innovate and grow by sticking to its core philosophies of providing travel Insurance to as many people as possible, including those with medical conditions.
The Getcover.com call centre team operate from the United Kingdom.
About Financial & Legal (F&L)
F&L is part of a family business (Drive Further Collective) with a long-established and successful LEI proposition. F&L is an insurance company, regulated by the PRA and FCA, which enables us to offer ATE and BTE products without the need for external capacity provision. In LEI, our primary focus is on BTE given the anticipated reforms to personal injury, but we also sell ATE to solicitors. F&L is based in Cheadle, Cheshire, UK. For more information, visit www.financialandlegal.co.uk.
About Firemelon
Firemelon Limited develops sales and claims systems for the insurance industry and has helped to drive a total transformation of the travel insurance market for over 20 years. Firemelon’s Magenta Insurance System has been used to process a significant proportion of policy administration and is used by over 30 different insurers, brokers, claims handling companies and assistance companies. Initially founded to support the UK market, Firemelon’s systems solution has been adopted throughout the world including Europe, South Africa, USA and Canada. For more information, visit www.travelinsured.com.
About CPP Group
CPP Group is a technology-driven assistance company that creates embedded and ancillary assistance products and resolution services that reduce disruption to everyday life for millions of people around the world, at the time and place they are needed. These products are provided through partnerships with leading insurance, banking and finance companies as either as embedded solutions or as relevant add-ons to enhance their core offering and deliver additional revenue streams. CPP is listed on AIM, operated by the London Stock Exchange. For more information, visit international.cppgroup.com.
SOURCE: Blink Innovation via Fuller Marketing
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