LO10: Claims handling Flashcards

(48 cards)

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claims and underwriting relationship

A
  • report wordings that cause problems with interpretation
  • advise on new wording clarity
  • provide claims data to review risk performance
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claims and outwards reinsurance relationship

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  • know which reinsurance contains any forms of claim control and coop clauses
  • provide data
  • code losses accurately to ensure reinsurance is recoverable
  • keep claims data up-to-date
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claims and complaints relationship

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  • provide clarity on the complaint handling process
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claims and management info relationship

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  • give input on system designs or changes
  • review reports to ensure data is being reported properly
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claims and legal relationship

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  • advised on wording problems
  • liaise if claims go to litigation
  • liaise over outsourcing of claims
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claims and compliance relationship

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  • ensure all claims are properly trained and authorised
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claims and marketing relationship

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  • highlight any issues of clients not having a clear understanding of the product
  • claims can be used as a publicity tool
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claims and senior management/board relationship

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  • report large claims
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claims and finance relationship

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  • give warnings of large payments being made
  • liaise on cases of high volume of claims
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10
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how does the broker know who to advise?

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reviewing mrc

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11
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mrc claims agreement party is for?

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london market portion of the risk

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12
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lloyds claims agreement rules
- exempt classes

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lloyds claim lead arrangements

exempt
- term life
- satellite

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iua company market (marine and aviation)
- depends on?
- for different classes?

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iua claims handling agreement

depends if the brokers siubmissions is:
- advice/settlement
- lloyds invoolvement
- direct or excess of loss reinsurance (proportional excluded)

marine (no excess of loss)
- lloyds involvement = only one compnay binds
- no lloyds involvement = first two companies have to agree

aviation (no excess of loss)
- direct business = first two companies
- fac reinsurance = lead company only

excess of loss reinsurance
- first two companies always

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iua company market (nonmarine)

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  • no binding is possible, each insurer agrees for its own share
  • can set up claims agreement systems to by-pass certain parties of their share is bellow a certain threshold
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lloyds claim lead arrangements
- financial complex risk (two leaders)

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if the amount (potentially) claimed, net of deductibles/excess, to the lloyds share on a single risk is more than
- 1m for third party
- £2m for 1st party
- £5m for excess of loss

for potentially must believe there is >50% chance of ocurrence

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lloyds claim lead arrangements
- non financial complex risk (two leaders) situations

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  • claim of extracontractual damages or damages in excess of policy limits
  • allegation of failure to comply with claim handling regulations
  • active/potential dispute resolution proceedings of any type
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single claims agreement parties
- where?
- for?

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  • london market (seperate lloyds and company agreement are required)
  • smaller (<£250k), less complex claims
  • can be put into open market and lineslip mrc
  • not for proportional treaty reinsurance or binding authorites
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18
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technical processing service

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maintain g databases and sending overnight messages to syndicates from brokers

done by Xchanging (can also delegate claims handling authority - XCS adjuster and XCS colleagues)

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claim experts

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  • loss adjuster = for insurer
  • loss assessor = for insured
  • average adjusters = specialise in marine claims, calculate particular and general averages
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20
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terms of engagement

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helps the expert understand what is reqiured of them

21
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paper claims file definition

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not handled by electronic claims file system

22
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examples of named claims experts

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professional indemnity = lawyer
cargo = local surveyor

23
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electronic claims file

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  • not just for the london market
  • there are some excluded classes of business
  • elements
    1) class = data messaging system/database
    2) document repository
24
Q

electronic claims file
- claims setup using

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unique claims reference
unique market reference

mrc is also added

25
info brokers should include in first advice file
mrc binding authority certificates loss info received
26
organisation onflict
insurer withdraws from the agreement party, passed to the next insurer on the list
27
individual conflict
chinese walls or ethical walls set up
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payment on account
interim payment of indemnity can be paid at any point in the claim cycle along with expert fees
29
lloyds currencies for claims payments
14 can only pay in usd if premiums were paid in usd
30
enterprise act 2016
claims should be settled in a reasonable time in any contract subject to english law can claim damages for late payments for a year after the claims are paid
31
moving claims money - company market - lloyds market
company = put on the electronic messaging system, not always immediate lloyds = through XCS
32
third party administrators
insurers delegate claims handing authority to them, coverholders or organisations receive infor frombroker or insured, redirrect anything outside of their authority via the broker reports monthly through a bordereau
33
loss fund
provided to coverholder to tpa before hand to settle claims replenished when bordereau is submitted whatevers left gets returned at the end of the binding agreement
34
average
underinsurance in nonmarine loss in marine, underinsurance=underinsurance
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leakage
over payment of cliams
36
reservation of rightts
insurer takes advice on whether exclusion wording is strong enough, this informs the insured that there might be a problem avoids being estopped = prevented from declining a claim as they have led the insured into thinking there was no problem with the claim
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key fraud triggers
- excessive claims documents - pressure to settle - reluctancy to answer questions - stories not adding up leads to claims leakage
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uk claims regulation - dealing with consumers vs commercial
fca's isurance conduct of business sourcebook (icobs) - consumers --> insurers cant invoke nondisclosure and misrepresentation without showing fraud which is harder to prove
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claims handling in the us - california
- number of states have their own claims handling regulations california requires annual certification, need to knows - timeline for acknowledging claims receipt - timeline for letting insured know of on going investigation - info the insured should provide with claim rejection to allow appeal
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sanctions can be on
governments businesses individuals countries/regime
41
sanctions can ...
- stop fund transfers - freezing of assets
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how insurers are informed of sanctions
- hm treasury - us department of the treasury, office of foreign asset control - crystal (lloyds site)
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complaint info that should be communicated by the insurer
- who to contact - timescales of considerations and complaints - existancte of fos - referral to fos doesnt remove legal rights
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where fos operation is documented
fca's dispute resolution compaliants sourcebook (disp) legal disputes must be withrawn before contacting the fos
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timeline for complaint to fos
earliest of 6 months after firms final decision 6 years after the event 3 years after the complaintant knew they could complain or else opposed on time-barred fos answers in 3 months
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when fos isnt binding
- recommends a higher money award - decisions rejected by complainant arent binding to the respondent (being claimed against)
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fos funding
- general levy on all firms - case fee paid by the firm
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fos direction award examples
- pay refused claim - pay redress - apologies