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Customize demand surge
Steps to review and adjust demand surge for Touchstone/Touchstone Re.

Using Touchstone online Help
You can access the top-level or context-sensitive Touchstone online help from within the application or from the Client Portal. You can then search for content, bookmark pages, and generate output to other formats.
Import data from external sources
You can import exposure data, map layers, projects, and reinsurance packages from external sources into Touchstone databases.
Projects and exposure views
Projects are a useful way to organize your data. They contain exposure views that contain the data that you want to focus on.
Geospatial analysis
Geospatial analysis enables you to perform a deterministic risk analysis with your own view of risk on accumulations of property exposures and workers' compensation information in given areas exposed to natural and man-made catastrophes.
Exposure data validation
Verisk provides a reference containing information about Touchstone exposure data.
Data Quality analysis
The most effective way to assess and enhance portfolio-level or contract-level catastrophe exposure data is to use Touchstone's Data Quality diagnostics. These diagnostics enable you to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the exposure data you are using for analyses and supplement that data when it is missing or weak.
Hazard analysis
Hazard analysis enable you to identify the relevant catastrophe hazards for locations in your exposure data.
About loss analyses
Touchstone enables you to model catastrophic (CAT) events to estimate property and workers' compensation losses.
Reinsurance
The Reinsurance Program Manager enables you to create, import, and manage reinsurance programs.
Touchstone data export types
Touchstone enables you to export different types of data.
Activity Monitor
The Activity Monitor displays the status of all activities.
Managing data sources
Use Data Source Management to manage Touchstone databases.
User model management
Use User Model Management to build custom non-Verisk models and seamlessly integrate them into Touchstone.
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Reference: Common Help topics
- Abbreviations
  Some abbreviations used in Touchstone.
- CATRADER
- CAT XOL analysis
  A catastrophe excess of loss reinsurance program (CAT XOL) indemnifies the ceding company for that portion of the loss that exceeds the limit of its own retention per event.
- Currency rate settings
  In the Administration Console, manage the currency defaults, exchange rates, and conversion table for generating exposure views, running analyses, and viewing results.
- Customize demand surge
  Steps to review and adjust demand surge for Touchstone/Touchstone Re.
- Guide to currency settings
- Industry Exposure Database
  Our Industry Exposure Database contains industry-wide data on aggregate exposures for sums insured, number of risks, building attributes, and insurance premium data by line of business and payroll.
- Verisk Models

Customize demand surge

Steps to review and adjust demand surge for Touchstone/Touchstone Re.

Admin > Administration Console > Loss Defaults > Demand Surge

Demand surge is the increase in prices for labor and materials following a catastrophe, as construction material and contractors' costs increase along with the increased demand for repairs and replacement construction.

Through the June 2022 release, the US-derived demand surge (legacy) methodology was event-based and used the industry loss across the entire modeled region. It was also based on a limited number of U.S. models. The new demand surge methodology is country-specific and accounts for the whole year instead of for each event individually. The initial release of the new demand surge model supports select European models. The remaining countries and regions continue to use the existing US-derived demand surge model. Support for the new country-specific demand surge models will be extended to non-European models in future releases.