Improving Business Insurance Loss Models by Leveraging InsurTech Innovation

Quan, Zhiyu; Hu, Changyue; Dong, Panyi; Valdez, Emiliano A.

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Title

Improving Business Insurance Loss Models by Leveraging InsurTech Innovation

Author(s)

• Quan, Zhiyu
• Hu, Changyue
• Dong, Panyi
• Valdez, Emiliano A.

Issue Date

2023

Keyword(s)

• InsurTech
• Business insurance
• Loss models
• Industry and university collaboration

Abstract

Recent transformative and disruptive developments in the insurance industry embrace various InsurTech innovations. In particular, with the rapid advances in data science and computational infrastructure, InsurTech is able to incorporate multiple emerging sources of data and reveal implications for value creation on business insurance by enhancing current insurance operations. In this paper, we unprecedentedly combine real-life proprietary insurance claims information and its InsurTech empowered risk factors describing insured businesses to create enhanced tree-based loss models. An empirical study in this paper shows that the supplemental data sources created by InsurTech innovation significantly help improve the underlying insurance company's internal or in-house pricing models. The results of our work demonstrate how InsurTech proliferates firm- level value creation and how it can affect insurance product development, pricing, underwriting, claim management, and administration practice.

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text

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121810

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