Baron, the worldwide provider of critical weather intelligence, announces the launch of the new Baron Weather API for Insurance website, now optimized for development. Baron Weather API for Insurance makes it easy to integrate quality-controlled, industry-leading weather data for advanced notification, monitoring and validation in a variety of insurance applications such as claims management, actuarial analysis, customer engagement and fraud detection.  

The new Baron Weather API for Insurance website offers customers an intuitive and customizable user experience, including a renovated documentation area with improved organization and faster access. With more customer dashboard features and convenient key display, customers can easily leverage Baron Weather API using any coding language, whether to track current conditions, view forecast conditions, or access historical data. Plus, new and improved use case ideas and descriptions for over 200 meteorological data products, including over 60 Baron exclusives, empower customers to develop creative solutions for their application.

Baron Pinpoint Alerting extends reach and enables the ability to send customers advanced custom notifications about weather or other critical information, thus lowering claims by alerting customers to unsafe conditions.

Additionally, Baron’s archival weather data allows for analysis of historical performance and actuarial modeling. Baron’s Weather API for Insurance provides a global, multi-year, deep archive of over 65 individual weather data conditions for analysis and verification. Business applications for the historical weather data include home, casualty, marine, aviation and automotive insurance, and the Baron Weather API for Insurance is customized to each client’s specific needs—accessible by weather condition, time frame, and location.

The cloud-powered Baron Weather API scales with customer demand to deliver secure and reliable data on time, every time. For efficient integration into any application or GIS platform, Baron Weather API features a streamlined on-boarding process and includes numerous data formats, including JSON and TMS. It also features RESTful architecture to ensure a familiar development environment. All data in the Baron Weather API for Insurance is provided in a variety of different formats including ESRI and ArcGIS compatibility with the developer able to determine how to present the information. Additionally, data packages are fully customized, making integration easy and quick.