Business Rules and Underwriting Automation at Travelers
San Francisco, CA, USA June 25, 2008 – A new Celent report, Business Rules and Underwriting Automation at Travelers, presents a case study of how an insurance company achieved significant success in automating underwriting and pricing of several lines sold to its small business customers. The company is Travelers; the business unit is Select Accounts; the products are sold in its TravelersExpressSM program; and the key technologies supporting this initiative are a business rules management system (BRMS), predictive analytics, and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
TravelersExpress uses automated rules to enable the underwriting, product, and pricing strategies of its business. The result is a complete, quote-to-issue platform, providing ease and speed to agents and customers.
Creating business value in TravelersExpress requires real time access to a rules set in order to execute a multivariate pricing model and underwriting rules. To provide this, Travelers implemented a service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution.
Source: Travelers and Celent
�The role of Select Accounts underwriters has shifted to managing a book of business and a portfolio of producers and focusing on growth rather than getting transactions done. Producers have said they appreciate the greater clarity of Travelers� appetite for various risks, faster issue for accepted risks, and a closer working relationship with their underwriters,� says Donald Light, senior analyst with Celent�s insurance group and author of the report.
The 22-page report contains one figure. A table of contents is available online.
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