The manual underwriting process can be a thankless occupation at times; complex, nuanced and prone to human error. It's no revelation, then, that the manual process is time-consuming and expensive for human underwriters, eating into your profitability and customer satisfaction. What is needed is a solution that will provide better accuracy, quicker turnarounds, and fewer errors—all without expanding your workforce or burdening your IT department with the rollout of yet another infrastructure.

Enter RPA (Robotic Process Automation)—simple to generate, drag-and-drop, cloud-based, digital robots backed by other supporting technologies, such as AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning. RPA bots allow you to streamline and automate repetitive portions of your underwriting decisions, leaving human underwriters to handle edge cases and non-repetitive, human processes that cannot be automated.

What are the benefits of automating underwriting for insurance?

Implementing algorithm-driven Robotic Process Automation to augment or replace your existing systems for underwriting can provide numerous benefits for your insurance underwriting processes. When you get the most out of your AI and ML assisted RPA, some benefits you could realize for your insurance organization include:

More Policies Processed

More Policies Processed

With RPA, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), you can reduce processing time by eliminating repetitive manual tasks, creating a visible impact on response time for quotes and the issuance of policies.

Larger Datasets

Larger Datasets

Digitization of data from different sources and AI evaluation are giving rise to big data and predictive analysis. RPA bots can search hundreds of data sources per potential policy, examining in seconds what would take manual underwriting much longer to cover in order to pinpoint an applicant's risk factors.

Streamlined Workflow

Streamlined Workflow

Aggregate and integrate data from disparate sources, from paper documentation to multiple legacy and API-based digital systems using automated processes. For example, Automation Co-Pilot makes it possible for underwriters to log in to various systems from a single screen, reducing complexity and enabling better time management.

Fewer Underwriting Errors

Fewer Underwriting Errors

Check each policy against underwriting guidelines and receive instant alerts when something doesn’t match. Using RPA, you will miss fewer potential risks when evaluating an applicant for risk and policy offerings.

Increased Employee Productivity

Increased Employee Productivity

By automating the simpler tasks, employees gain time and resources for higher yield areas with more value. Actions like tailoring individual policies, or pricing and managing “mid-risk” applications, are able to move front and center.

Increased Customer Satisfaction

Increased Customer Satisfaction

With Automation 360, Automation Co-Pilot, Document Automation and other RPA support, your call center representatives can have unified policyholder data across the organization in real-time. Many customer requests, such as updating their policy, can be automatically handled through machine learning (ML), intelligent software bots.

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Who can benefit from automated underwriting in insurance?

Automation doesn’t have to be limited to the underwriting department. Processes can be quickly managed across the system through a simple interface. Anyone in the organization can access a digital assistant, allowing for use between stakeholders in real-time.

Underwriters

Underwriters

Unsurprisingly, underwriters find themselves at the top of our list. The ability to incorporate such large amounts of data into the process while reducing the time actually dealing with data is a one-two punch guaranteed to transform traditional underwriters into pioneers in the field.

Customer Support

Customer Support

Nothing makes a client feel more at ease with an insurance company than being able to communicate with their insurer and be heard in a timely manner. Intelligent automation makes it possible to be available to customers on a 24/7 basis, answering questions about their policy or claim.

IT and Tech Support

IT and Tech Support

Intelligent RPA enables IT departments to automate support ticket systems and triage and prioritize problems. Our bots can also help with AI driven troubleshooting for end users.

Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing

RPA bots can help evaluate marketing and sales strategy for effectiveness and pinpoint where the best efforts would result in the most return. Sales teams can also benefit from automated customer outreach and chat bots that answer questions about products and provide customized pricing.

W&W Gruppe rips through its backlog in record time with RPA

Customer Story

Our employees understood that intelligent automation really helps them to focus on what’s very important—our customers.

Christian Wolf, Head of Business Organization and Process for RPA and leader of the Center of Excellence
The W&W Gruppe

56

Processes automated

150,000

Tasks processed by Bots

4

Months to reduce a 4-year backlog

How automated underwriting can help businesses in the insurance industry?

Both insurers and policy holders benefit from the enhanced process provided by automated insurance underwriting. Building bots with Automation Anywhere won't be a one and done process. Once you experience the capabilities inherent with RPA, you will look for ways to layer bots and expand your business capacity far beyond what you thought possible. A few ways you may improve your business processes include:

Risk Assessment/ Management

Risk Assessment/ Management

  • Fraud Detection
  • Risk classification and evaluation
  • Identify skills and natural talent
  • Predictive analysis
Customer Care

Customer Care

  • Real-time claim tracking during the lifecycle of the policy
  • Instant claim reporting
  • Billing and account management tools
  • Customer education tools
Real-Time

Real-Time

  • Reporting for employees and customers
  • Personalized pricing
  • Alerts to assist human underwriters
  • Customer interactions to drive customer satisfaction
Security/Compliance

Security/Compliance

  • Detect fraud in applications and claims
  • Protect personal data for clients
  • Automate compliance checks against underwriting rules
  • Watch for system intrusions

What to look for in automated underwriting systems for insurance

How to get started with automated insurance underwriting

If you aren't quite ready to jump in with both feet, you can reach out to one of our experienced RPA consultants, and they will give you a demonstration of the system and how it might work for you.

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