Predicting cost of worker’s compensation claims is becoming more challenging
Rising cost of care and lifestyle diseases leading to greater comorbidities is making predicting the probability and cost of a worker’s compensation claim even more critical to an insurer. This challenge gets further exacerbated due to almost 3-5% increase in complex claims. These cases tend to have delayed recoveries and much higher medical costs.
Further, catastrophic claims (defined as burn injuries, acquired head injuries, spinal cord injuries and multiple trauma injuries) account for less than 1% of all Worker’s Compensation claims but as much as 20% of Worker’s Compensation claims losses. One of the shortfalls of predicting claims losses is the ability to predict the catastrophic claims more accurately.
A global leader in insurance broking and risk management sought a solution
A global leader in insurance broking with presence across the world with over 5000 employees as part of a larger conglomerate was struggling with the unpredictable costs of catastrophic claims. Before reaching out to CrowdANALYTIX, the client had attempted to build predictive models in-house but couldn’t reach precision levels that could be high enough for them to confidently replace their existing underwriting or risk pricing methods.
CrowdANALYTIX tackled the problem
When hired to attempt a solution, CrowdANALYTIX drew on the skills of more than 300 data scientists to create accurate predictive models of potential compensation claims using historical claims data. Claims were classified in multiple ways to attempt more accurate predictions, including factors such as claim severity, possibility of lost time, claimant age, and detailed body part and cause codes. After evaluating over 500 different models from the 300 data scientists, CrowdANALYTIX picked the top 3 based on precision scores and the top predictive factors that made most intuitive business sense.
We then deployed the model on the cloud and enabled a dashboard for predicting the probability and cost of individual claims which could be further used to explore the cost trends of workers’ compensation claims.
Impact
The solution was integrated with existing pricing and underwriting tools and was used as an additional data point while pricing premiums for certain high-risk businesses.
