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Web Map Layers for Insurance
Real-time reporting and analysis
Web Map Layers for Insurance has been designed for
insurance companies wishing to improve their business
processes by sharing location intelligence throughout
their organisation via the web. It not only provides a
valuable geographical window into insurance data, but
also provides powerful analysis tools. These analytical
capabilities support many of the business processes
involved in sales, underwriting, customer service,
appraisals, and claims investigation.
• Navigation. Interactive mouse navigation, step zoom,
zoom box, zoom extents, line and area measurement
Information as map layers
Web Map Layers provides the following tools for data
interrogation and analysis: Perils Analysis, Find Nearest
Claim and Custom Search.
Typically, an insurance company would combine
externally-provided map data, such as base mapping, with
the organisation’s own business data in a series of map
layers. Some map layers will be there simply for visualisation
purposes, while most of company’s business data will
consist of intelligent, ‘pickable’ data. Map layers will also vary
according to whether they depict points or areas. Policies,
assets, and claims would typically be represented as points
on a map, while hazards and perils would be represented as
areas defining the extent and risk of a particular hazard.
Visualising insurance data
With Web Map Layers, users are free to determine which layers
to make visible and which to suppress. They can interact with
these layers using a range of visualisation capabilities which
are provided out-of-the-box. These include the following:
• Map window controls. Watermark, copyright, key
map, coordinate tracking, scale bar, zoom scale select,
bookmarks, overlay controls
• Searching. Quickly and easily perform a policy or
address search
• Reporting. Create prints, PDFs and images with user
annotations such as labels, symbols and areas.
Analysis
Perils Analysis
Users can quickly and easily assess the level of risk associated
with a particular asset or location by entering the location
on a map. Web Map Layers will return the risk rating at that
location for each type of risk available.
The accumulated exposure to risk is calculated dynamically
for the specified area. A warning can be set to inform the
underwriter when a pre-defined level has been reached.
Find Nearest Claim
The user enters a location, and the application will return
either the assets, policies or claims closest to that location, or
a list of assets, policies or claims falling within a user-defined
radius of that location. The user has the option to generate a
report by exporting the results in a CSV file.
Web Map Layers for Insurance
By bringing together the location of both assets and hazards in a
geographic information system, Web Map Layers for Insurance enables
companies to provide fair and competitive premium quotations by
evaluating the exposure to risk posed by their own insurance portfolios
and an unlimited number of perils.
Querying fire claims against a thematic map of fire risk by area
Custom Search
Web Map Layers for Insurance
More complex map searching is supported through a ‘Custom
Search’ tool. This allows the user to search for assets, policies,
claims, and risks within a specified area. Users can choose to
define the bounds of the search zone by drawing on the map.
Alternatively they can choose an existing area as recorded in a
map layer. This could for example be a risk zone described by
the extent of a river flood plain, a postcode, or an insurance
company’s own zoning system or sales territory. The user has
the option to generate a report by exporting the results in a
CSV file.
Customer service
• Maintain accurate and up to date address records
• Use on-line mapping to support dialogue with customers
Motor
• Locate nearest car repair outlets
• Record accident and witness locations
• Automatically record a description of a location for
formal documents
• Link to Google Street View to give claims representative
a clear view of a particular location
Adding New Polices
Web Map Layers allows users to add the location and additional
information relating to a new policy. The location can be first
found using the search tools and then accurately located
using the map or aerial imagery if required. The location could
either be a point or an area which encompasses the policy – a
university campus, for example. Once the location has been
captured, it can be configured to be stored automatically
alongside the new policy record in the insurance company’s
policy database.
Applications of Web Map Layers for Insurance
Web Map Layers is a productivity tool able to support a
number of business processes in the insurance sector.
Some of its uses are listed below.
Claims investigations
• Investigate damage and the extent of liability
• Check the validity of claims
• Identify locations where claims are higher than expected
The benefits
The insurance industry has long appreciated the value of
locational information as a good predictor of risk. Web Map
Layers is an effective means for an insurance company to
share this location intelligence throughout the organisation.
It offers the following:
• an easy to use application with a familiar look and feel, which
is applicable to many activities in insurance
Sales
• Assess the insurance risk of a particular application
• the ability to integrate diverse data sources of your choice,
using industry standard data formats
• Maintain sales territories and optimise sales calls
• an extended ability to interrogate intelligent maps, not found
in web map publishing systems
Underwriting
• Evaluate the degree of risk involved in an application
for insurance cover
• the option to deploy as an on-premises application or as a
hosted solution
• Authorise reinsurance when risk is high
• Decline excessive risk
• Evaluate the possibility of losses due to catastrophic events
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