Modern Insurance is only around 250 years old, about when the necessary statistical and mathematical tools to underwrite a business venture came to be. But statistical models, even the most advanced ones, need a very specific type of enriched data-diet for it to work optimally. Since then, the industry has always had to rely on data for ensuring its long financial health. For insurers to take on considerable risk, regardless of size, it draws on the reassurance of statistically-sound data that underpins the coverage needed (for issuance) to a fixed number. This ‘number’ will influence the amount of coverage (or claim) provided to the insuree and consequently the amount of premium to be collected.
Such is the reliance on data, that even the slightest erroneous mistake in the underwriter’s predictions could bankrupt, at times, even the economy. We’ve seen it before — when banks took on unqualified risks and approved subprime mortgage loans to borrowers with poor credit, creating the imploding housing bubble of ‘08.
The nature of risk simply evolves and devolves; while Insurers learn progressively with each individual case, adsorbing enormous amounts of data into their carefully crafted risk-models. These models then naturally aid in the manual effort of several hundred data scientists (in the case of large insurers) poring over immense amounts of psychographic, behavioral and environmental attributes for evaluating an entity’s risk profile. Yet, even with these measures, the risk is unquantifiable if the data scientist doesn’t have a large or clear enough picture to make sense of all the inbound information.
In the age of machine intelligence, data is prime fodder for these advanced algorithms. They are designed to thrive on large datasets — in fact the larger the size, the better the system learns. How could it not? An AI system is decidedly 1000x faster than human computing, raising accuracy levels to near perfection and improving straight-through processing to nearly one in every two decisions made without human intervention, today.
Source: Accenture Report — Machine Learning in Insurance
20.4 billion things will be connected by 2020 creating an unprecedented level of data handling & insight derivation capacity, as BFSI companies alone will spend US$25 billion on AI in 2020 (as reported by IDC research). Since 2012, more than $10 billion has been invested in insurtechs.
For 2020 and beyond, customers will come to expect better personalization from their insurance policies, especially millennials and younger. While the incumbent, slow-moving giants of traditional insurance should surprise no one as being the last to innovate — new insurtechs like Flyreel are changing the paradigm by piloting Machine Learning projects that directly translates to critical business goals.
According to McKinsey, digital insurers are already achieving better financial and efficient go-to-market results compared to traditional players.
Here are three ways, insurtechs are gaining ground with Machine Learning (specifically where learning from data is involved):
ML-based solutions bring back real value to insurers — either delivered as a standalone product or as a part of an embedded process/service. The key for insurers is to pilot ML projects of smaller scale that can bring about cost and time savings across the organization almost immediately and then improve in easier iterative sprints for more future-ready permanence, rather than taking on the task of a complete enterprise makeover from day one!
For more information about how we can help enterprises begin their ML transformation, reach us on hello@mantralabsglobal.com
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