Claims Fraud Detection for P&C Insurance
3AI August 15, 2020
Leading Personal Lines Insurance Carrier in NE of US
Problem Statement
- Basic business rules for fraud detection and prevention was in place and the need for improving their fraud detection and prevention tools was considered
- A POC was developed to analyze Customers’ claims data to provide trends and patterns of suspected fraudulent transactions
Analytics Led Approach
- Given are high level process steps which were followed:
- Sensitive data encryption
- Load the data from
- multiple sources Logistic Regression Model creation
- Data cleansing ; Data transformation; Business Significant variables deduction
- Distribution analysis
- Correlation analysis
- Multi- dimensional Analysis
- Fraud analysis through data profiling
- Identify key suspect indicators which indicated possible provider frauds
Business Impact
- Designed a proof of concept whereby Customers’ auto claims data for specific calendar year were analyzed and trends and patterns from analysis were presented
- The solution helped to identify the potential losses due to fraud or suspect claims and thereby helped to reduce claims leakage to a great extent
Critical Success Factors
- $ 3.5 million potential losses were identified due to potential suspects
- $ 600 k of potential losses were identified due to potential suspects with fortune coverage