Category: Insurance Claims Benchmarking

Every industry is feeling the pressure to improve their customer experience, and insurance is no different. Insurance customers are demanding the type of convenient, fast, and personalized service they get from Amazon, Netflix, Uber, and others. To compete, insurers will need to up their customer experience game while still keeping costs in check. The best and easiest way to achieve this is with customer experience metrics for insurance. These metrics help boost sales, keep customers and employees happy, all while keeping costs and risks low. What are Customer Experience Metrics…

It’s a simple equation: the higher the cost to manage claims, the lower an insurer’s profitability. Obviously insurers don’t want to rush the claims process and wind up mistakenly paying for fraudulent claims, but quickly--and accurately--processing legitimate claims has a direct, positive impact on the bottom line. What are Insurance Claims Benchmarks? An insurance claim is a formal request from a policyholder for compensation for a covered loss or policy event. Every type of insurer--whether property & casualty (P&C), life and annuities, automobile, medical, disability, or liability insurance—is required by…

Claims is where the rubber meets the road. For auto insurers, paying legitimate claims while minimizing the costs to process those claims is critical to profitability. Learn to benchmark auto insurance metrics to boost claims productivity and streamline operations. Auto insurance metrics enable insurers to determine how to control claims costs without negatively impacting customer satisfaction. What are Auto Insurance Benchmarks? To benchmark auto insurance, first you will need to pick metrics to measure. Insurers can use both key performance indicators (KPI) and key risk indicators (KRI) for claims benchmarking.…

Besides determining the best ways to sell insurance policies to customers and ensuring that policy applications are processed in a timely manner, insurance companies must focus their benchmarking, business intelligence and operational reporting efforts on claims processing metrics, or their loss ratio will continuously rise. Here are 4 examples of insurance claim metrics and KPIs that every insurance company should be tracking to improve the efficiency of the insurance claim process.