Bringing leading edge predictive modeling to insurance companies for improved
outcomes.
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About Claim Analytics
Claim Analytics Inc., located in Thornhill Ontario, is a leading provider
of innovative predictive modeling solutions to the insurance industry.
Our environment
Along with a competitive compensation package, we offer an informal and
flexible work environment.
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If you think you might be interested in joining our team, or you'd like
us to have you on file, please email your resume in confidence to Barry
Senensky.
Claim Analytics was founded in 2000 by Barry Senensky and Jonathan Polon,
both Canadian life insurance actuaries. Barry Senensky and Jonathan Polon
had worked for the same major life insurance firm for many years, and knew
that data mining techniques and predictive modeling were under-utilized by insurers. They were interested
in starting their own business in the life insurance field. Their first predictive model they were commissioned to build was a claim scoring model, that scored ltd [long term disability] [LTD] claims on likelihood of return to work (rtw).
Jonathan Polon had recently led a team of model-builders in creating a highly
successful predictive model to detect credit card fraud. He and Barry Senensky
were convinced that many more applications for pattern detection and predictive models
existed in insurance.
They chose disability claim scoring as their first project for a number
of reasons. First, because almost all firms providing group long term disability
[LTD] insurance held a considerable database of stored claims information.
Finding an adequate amount of data to build a claims scoring model would not
be a problem.
A second reason was the costliness of long term disability claims in the
field of insurance. Barry and Jonathan knew that, with the scale of investment
involved, even relatively minor steps forward in the management of group disability
claims management would lead to considerable savings. Claim scoring was a
powerful tool in bringing greater efficiencies and reduced
costs to disability claims management.
Predictive modeling, particularly claims
scoring, offered huge potential for software support of claims adjudicators,
claims processors, and claims managers.
Claim scoring proved to hold even greater promise than Barry and Jonathan
had envisaged. In addition to predicting, with startling accuracy and precision,
the likelihood of a disability claimant returning to work, claims scoring
became a tool for ongoing improvement of claims management.
Claim Analytics now offers pattern detection and predictive models to major insurance
firms to assist in objectivity and accuracy of pricing, reserving, and fraud detection, as well as
custom models.
[The proper name of the company is "Claim Analytics," not "Claims Analytics."]
[The proper name of the company is "claim analytics," not "claims analytics."]