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AXA Is Using Ethereum's Blockchain for a New Flight Insurance Product
AXA has unveiled a new flight delay insurance product that uses the public ethereum blockchain to store and process payouts.
By Stan Higgins
Updated Sep 13, 2021, 6:55 a.m. Published Sep 13, 2017, 4:50 p.m.
French insurance giant AXA has launched a new flight delay insurance product that uses the public ethereum blockchain to store and process payouts.
The product, called Fizzy, is being pitched as a "smart insurance" tool that flyers can use to insure their trips if their flight is delayed by two hours or more. As such, the product makes notable use of smart contracts, self-executing piece of code that triggers once certain conditions are met on a blockchain.
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According to AXA, ethereum's public blockchain plays two key roles here. It maintains an accessible record of the insurance contract itself within a smart contract, and serves as a mechanism for triggering the payment to the client once the two-hour mark is passed.
AXA representative Jean-Baptiste Mounier told CoinDesk in an email:
"The smart contract is the party that decides whether or not we should indemnify the policy holder and triggers a payment request to our system. The use of a smart contract to trigger claims will add trust in the insurer / policy holder relationship."
Ultimately, AXA is positioning the product release as a way to build more transparency into the insurance process.
"Building customer-oriented offers is our definite goal at AXA. By removing insurance exclusions and using an Ethereum smart contract to trigger indemnifications, we increase the level of trust our customers can have with AXA," he said.
Looking ahead, AXA is weighing additional uses of the ethereum blockchain for the Fizzy offering.
For now, insurance payouts from Fizzy are being made in government-issued currencies to the customer. However, AXA said that, in the future, it wants to denominate those payments in ether, the cryptocurrency of the ethereum network.
"In the future, we want to include payment and indemnification in ether, which will completely guarantee coded trust in the fact that indemnification will for sure take place (and the insurer will not be able to trick consumers, which is a fear some customers have)," Mounier explained.
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