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Undoubtedly, the process of underwriting can be quite intricate. It involves managing partner and client relations, accurately assessing risks, ensuring sufficient global coverage and capacity, and making well-informed decisions that meet the needs of clients and partners. Underwriting becomes even more complicated when relying on manual processes, paper, or Excel-based methods, which consume valuable time of highly skilled professionals.
Your challenge is to make sure you have the right technical tools that will allow you to move away from manual underwriting. A digital underwriting platform should empower you to improve your services and clarity and drive transparency and productivity within your organization.
Enter Adacta’s underwriting workbench, which helps you do just that. AdInsure Underwriting Workbench allows you to manage the entire commercial insurance underwriting process and equips you with the tools you need to succeed.
Table of contents:
- What are commercial insurance underwriter workbenches?
- Enhanced Decision-Making Through an Underwriting Workbench
- Amplifying Underwriting Outcomes through Team Collaboration
- Improved productivity through process automation
- Enhancing Customer Relationships with Insightful Underwriting Practices
- How does AdInsure Underwriting Workbench fit in?
What are commercial insurance underwriter workbenches?
An underwriting workbench is a productivity tool that digitalizes the entire underwriting process and allows you to operate with enhanced efficiency and accuracy throughout every process step.
It is an integrated solution incorporating multiple features necessary to underwrite a policy, including data insights, pricing, complex risk and case management, assignments, partner and underwriting capacity management, and more.
It guides involved underwriters through the process seamlessly to ensure compliance with all internal underwriting guidelines and that accurate risk assessment is performed while creating a comprehensive insurance policy.
Here is what underwriters can perform using an underwriting workbench:
- Review coverage applications and register an opportunity
- Perform the necessary risk assessment
- Calculate the premium at the appropriate price point
- Manage and use client and coverage-specific conditions and clauses
- Integrate third-party insurers and reinsurance partners
- Prepare a quote and send an offer to a prospective client
- Conclude and manage a contract
- Cooperate with other departments (legal team, assessors) and manage tasks and activities.
- Use data and features from various integrated systems, including a rating engine, customer database, or third-party insurer, risk questionnaires, and tools.
A robust underwriting workbench can completely transform the entire underwriting workflow. Let’s look at the key reasons for having a digitalized commercial underwriting process.
Enhanced Decision-Making Through an Underwriting Workbench
First, an underwriting workbench enhances decision-making by consolidating information into a centralized location. Once you can define coverage, assess risk, explore plan options, and input all data in a single location, you can ensure that your underwriters have all the information they need at their fingertips.
This process allows you to prepare offers, manage clauses, and track offer progress within a standardized workflow. As such, you can easily manage client relationships and ensure you deliver the best possible product to your customers.
With all your data centralized, you never have to worry about missing key information or miscalculating. This empowers the underwriting team to produce fair and more accurate proposals, ultimately increasing underwriting accuracy. Better decisions leveraging advanced tools such as predictive analytics and Artificial Intelligence lead to better portfolio management.
Amplifying Underwriting Outcomes through Team Collaboration
An underwriting workbench can improve communication and collaboration among all parties.
Your team and business partners (brokers or even clients) can easily look under the hood of any application for coverage. This enables a better understanding of the offered quote and the rationale behind its pricing. Partners and clients can use this information to understand what they are paying for and why they are paying for it. Customers unsatisfied with a quote or proposal can request an alternative calculation with different data or coverage.
Using a digital underwriting workbench allows your team of underwriters to manage cases efficiently and ensure they engage other relevant resources from different departments.
Improved productivity through process automation
Increased automation is another benefit of the digital underwriting process. Creating a policy for a customer can be a difficult and time-consuming task. Brokers must understand risk factors and match customers' preferences to available insurers' offerings. They must submit applications, track documents and contacts, and more. This is when the underwriting process really starts: insurers must evaluate risk, work out the capacity and partners, and go through different levels of approvals, including proper clause selection.
Several components of the underwriting process, such as data entry, opportunity scoring, case assignments, and clause selection, can be automated to operate within the parameters of the business rules you establish. This automation not only allows partners to work faster and with greater accuracy but also optimizes your underwriters' time, reducing the risk of errors.
Enhancing Customer Relationships with Insightful Underwriting Practices
Transparency and improved collaboration also contribute to partner and customer satisfaction. Customers often feel left in the dark regarding the rationale behind specific proposals. An underwriting workbench allows brokers to provide a more straightforward explanation to customers about the decisions made. These explanations can explain why decisions have been made and how prices or coverages can be adjusted. This transparency boosts both customer satisfaction and profits for brokers.
Comprehensive digital underwriting platforms also offer regulatory compliance support for client-related data and privacy, including DATCA, GDPR, IDD, and more.
How does AdInsure Underwriting Workbench fit in?
AdInsure Underwriting Workbench offers a variety of features that ensure a competitive advantage. These include:
- Centralization of all operations and guarantee of data transparency. At Adacta, we pride ourselves on ensuring that our customers - and their customers - understand their decisions and their rationale.
- Service automation. Your underwriters’ time is an invaluable and irreplaceable resource, so AdInsure Underwriting Workbench automates numerous manual activities through a rule-based system, which frees up your teams to connect with customers.
- Easy integration with your existing systems. This integration increases efficiency and ensures that software works together seamlessly. It also guarantees that your issues quotes are as accurate as possible.
- Improved customer experience. Happy brokers are more likely to collaborate with you, resulting in quicker process completion, more accurate quotes, and a higher volume of client contracts.
- Advanced analytics and AI. Native BI tool integration provides data insights into Risk Profiles, Claims Analysis, Customer Segmentation, insurance product performance, and loss ratios. This empowers your team to make more informed and better decisions.
- Clause management. AdInsure supports an extensive Clause Library and automated selection of mandatory clauses tailored to specific coverages. Underwriters can also add custom clauses, ensuring precise and comprehensive policy customization.
AdInsure Underwriting Workbench offers significant benefits for the digital transformation of commercial underwriting operations. It streamlines the underwriting process by centralizing operations, automating complex processes, and integrating advanced data analytics, boosting accuracy and efficiency.
The inclusion of advanced features, such as a Clause Management system, and Capacity management (reinsurance solution, coinsurance), further refines policy customization, ensuring tailored solutions for every client.
This modern approach to underwriting, powered by advanced technologies, not only simplifies the process's complexities but also fosters greater accuracy in risk selection, transparency, and customer satisfaction, positioning insurers for success in a rapidly evolving industry.
