Title
An Empirical Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods for the Insurance Industry
Abstract
We identified two use cases for machine learning (ML) in the process of handling insurance claims related to water damage. The first use case is a classification task and concerns the decision, whether or not to send an expert to review the water damage. The second use case is a regression task and involves estimating the initial reserve to declare for the claim. We compared the performance of different ML models for both use cases. Concerning both the classification and regression task, a neural network (NN) with four layers and about 9,000 parameters performed the best. On the classification task, the NN has a precision of 0.8093. On the regression task, the NN has a mean absolute error (MAE) of 1,799 EUR and outperforms human estimations, which have an MAE of 2,258 EUR.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-981-16-2380-6_82
PROCEEDINGS OF SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICICT 2021), VOL 2
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Machine learning, Insurance claims, Initial reserve, Classification, Regression
Conference
236
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2367-3370
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7