Premium Audit Copilot

Challenges
Incorrect business and employee classifications
Incorrect classification leads to incorrect assessment of exposure and premium, leading to under or overvalued premium
Lengthy process for premium audit for commercial P&C businesses
Audit is still a very manual and tedious process with lots of information collection and verification
Compliance with states’ guidelines & regulations
Each state can have different regulations and guidelines making compliance tough. Documenting audit decision accurately for different states becomes a challenging task.
Solution & Benefit
Insured Communication
Solutions
Automate information requests with insureds to drive timely completion of audits.
- Easily request collection of missing information with AI-driven messages on behalf of auditors.
- Collect the right information needed based on industry and class code with support from dynamic data collection methods.
Benefits
Timely communication schedules ensure compliance with communication regulations.
- Dynamic questions ensure the right information is collected.
AI-driven missing information and document requests reduce auditor communication time and further shorten audit cycles
rates.

Ingestion
Solutions
- Automate the ingestion of all audit-related documents including audit requests/orders, payroll documents, payroll tax returns, insured filled forms, and other essential documents.
- Leverage expert-developed line of business, audit, industry, and regulatory knowledge graphs to accurately capture information in the correct insurance and business context.
- Manage quality by identifying missing documents and incorrect documents and generate insured requests to rectify.
Benefits
- Significant reduction of audit cycle time frees up auditors to focus on critical audit decisions.
- Knowledge graphs ensure accurate information capture regardless of document structure or format, and then ensure the correct information is corrected.
- Automated requests for missing documents and corrections help ensure that audits can start promptly.

Business Profiling
Solutions
- Access internal and external data sources (public and commercial) to enrich the understanding of insured operations.
- Evaluate insured websites and social media to validate descriptions of operations provided in original applications.
- Capture and validate corporate structure information from state government data sources.
Benefits
- Accurate descriptions of operations help correctly classify the insured.
- Additional sources of information help justify and defend any classification corrections.
- Correct corporate structure is needed for a variety of state regulations, including the treatment of officers' remuneration.

Business Classification
Solutions
- Accurately classify insured governing class codes, companion class codes, and permitted exception class codes per state guidelines.
- Identify alternate class codes based on description of operations.
- Auditor reviews (human in the loop) submitted and recommended class code changes with references to appropriate regulatory rules and decision rationale.
Benefits
- Correct and fully validated class codes for the audit and future renewals.
- Full documentation of validation or changes to support broker and regulatory communications.
- Easy-to-use interface for auditors to review options and supporting regulations.

Payroll & Wage Analysis
Solutions
- Leverage knowledge graphs to ingest and extract payroll information (payess, wage types and remuneration).
- Knowledge graphs help audit departments concentrate on collecting necessary information rather than learning document structure.
- Collect information across all documents with awareness of individual state requirements.
- Ensure time period alignment of payroll reports and validating documents (usually tax returns).
Benefits
- Rapid and complete collection of audit information with full lineage of source information to support accurate exposure analysis.
- Ability for audit departments (business users) to fine-tune information collection without technical programming.
- Substantially reduce audit cycle times with automated payroll extraction and comparison of payroll and validating document time periods.

Employee Census
Solutions
- Create and identify a census of all employees and contractors considered part of the payroll exposure.
- Validate employee information, roles, and descriptions across multiple documents and information sources. Associate titles/ roles, departments, and job descriptions with each employee.
- Document and resolve identity conflicts automatically with generative AI.
Benefits
- Accurate employee census is the foundation for calculating permissible employee remuneration and exposure.
- Fully documented validation of employee job function helps make accurate class code assignment.
- Resolving identity conflicts enhances audit credibility, trust and accuracy.

Calculate Remuneration
Solutions
- Accurately evaluate state guidelines and identify permissible wages, with reference to appropriate guidelines.
- Address officer min/max and wage cap requirements as specified for each state.
- Calculate remuneration for all employees and subtotal remuneration by class code
Benefits
- More accurate audit analysis with documented, trustworthy results.
- Application of one or more state guidelines and rules affecting remuneration with full documentation.

Additional Premium
Solutions
- Calculate changes in premiums in compliance with state guidelines.
- Provide full justification to support auditor, underwriter, insured, and broker communications.
- Plain English explanations and clear accounting tables explain changes in class code exposure and premium
Benefits
- Accelerate the collection of additional premiums when and as permitted by state guidelines.
- Support auditor communications with underwriters, insurers, and brokers to document and clearly explain any changes in class codes, exposure, and premium.
- Provide fast, clearly documented, and accurate premium and exposure adjustments to create transparency and trust.
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Audit Report
Solutions
- Detailed final audit report documents the full audit experience and meets carrier and regulatory audit requirements.
- Provides a full description of the insured’s operations, validated class codes, confirmation of payroll report accuracy, and any recommended changes.
- All recommendations are fully documented with links to source data and documents, and relevant state regulations
Benefits
- Clearly documented final report that explains all recommendations.
- Links to support documentation and regulations build trust.
