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AI Playbook
for Insurance
For underwriting, claims, SIU, distribution, actuarial, operations, and compliance teams at carriers, MGAs, agencies, brokers, and TPAs. A practical guide to using AI across underwriting, claims, fraud, distribution, policy service, and AI governance.
Who this playbook is for
This playbook is for the carriers, MGAs, agencies, brokers, and claims teams who run insurance businesses, not for consumers shopping for coverage. It covers how insurance organizations can use AI to prepare work for underwriters, adjusters, investigators, producers, and compliance staff, who keep every decision.
- Carriers and MGAs
- Agencies and brokers
- Claims organizations and TPAs
- Underwriting, claims, SIU, and actuarial leaders
- Compliance, operations, and finance teams
- Consumers shopping for insurance
- Policyholders seeking claim advice
- Investment or legal advice
Start With Your Role
Choose the role closest to your day-to-day work. Start with one useful prompt, make it repeatable, then add the information it needs.
- Start with: underwriting case summary or loss run summary
- Save as a skill: summary format and guideline references
- Connect: Verisk underwriting connector, submission documents
- First agent: submission triage assistant
- Measure: time to quote, file quality
- Start with: claim file review or FNOL intake summary
- Save as a skill: file summary format and state timelines
- Connect: claims system (approved access)
- First agent: claim file summarizer or regulatory timeline watch
- Measure: cycle time, timeline compliance, complaints
- Start with: SIU referral indicator review
- Save as a skill: written indicators and referral packet format
- Connect: fraud platform outputs
- First agent: SIU referral pre-screen
- Measure: referral quality, false positives
- Start with: renewal book review or coverage review talking points
- Save as a skill: renewal and prep formats
- Connect: agency management system AI
- First agent: agency renewal book watch
- Measure: retention, producer time saved
- Start with: rating factor summary or filing checklist
- Save as a skill: documentation and filing formats
- Connect: Verisk ISO data, model documentation
- First agent: monthly results narrator
- Measure: filing turnaround, documentation completeness
- Start with: AI system inventory or market conduct readiness
- Save as a skill: inventory and program formats
- Connect: GRC system, model inventory
- First agent: AI inventory & monitoring reporter
- Measure: inventory completeness, exam findings
100 AI Prompts for Insurance Teams
Ready-to-use prompts for underwriting, pricing and actuarial support, claims, claims quality, SIU, distribution, policy service, customer communication, compliance and AI governance, and finance. Copy one, add your organization's context, and review the result.
Use approved tools for any customer data, quote policy language and guidelines exactly, and let licensed professionals make every decision.
Prompts for submission intake, case summaries, and underwriting files. AI organizes and summarizes; licensed underwriters make every acceptance, decline, and pricing decision.
A consistent summary lets underwriters spend time on judgment instead of reading.
Risks: AI can misread documents or miss exclusions. Control: Underwriter reviews the full file and makes the decision.
Fast triage gets underwriters working on submissions they can write.
Risks: Appetite calls need judgment. Control: Underwriter confirms any out-of-appetite flag before declining.
Loss run summaries are tedious and error-prone by hand.
Risks: Loss runs can be incomplete or valued at different dates. Control: Underwriter confirms valuation dates and totals.
Puts COPE details where underwriters can see them quickly.
Risks: Inspection details drive pricing. Control: Underwriter verifies against the report.
Clear referrals speed approvals and document decisions.
Risks: Authority limits are firm. Control: Approver decides.
Specific requests get faster, complete answers.
Risks: Tone matters with brokers. Control: Underwriter sends.
Grounded answers help newer underwriters learn the guidelines.
Risks: Manuals change. Control: Use the current version.
Renewal reviews go faster when changes are clear.
Risks: Pricing decisions are the underwriter's. Control: Underwriter decides terms.
Consistent file audits strengthen underwriting discipline.
Risks: Audit conclusions need reviewer judgment. Control: QA reviewer signs off.
Saves underwriter time on long medical records.
Risks: Health information is highly sensitive and regulated. Control: Only use approved tools; underwriter decides rating.
Clearance errors cause broker disputes.
Risks: Clearance rules vary. Control: Underwriting operations decides.
12 Claude-Ready Insurance Skills
These are downloadable Claude Skill packages, not just longer prompts. Each includes a SKILL.md your team can tailor with your guidelines, state rules, and AI program. A copy-and-paste version works in ChatGPT and other AI tools.
Connect Your Work
AI can only help with the information it can see. Start with reference data and business documents, and keep customer personal and health data in approved systems.
Easy start
Start with a limited, low-risk connection your team can test quickly.
- Access: Verisk launched MCP connectors in Claude in May 2026: Underwriting Intelligence (ISO Indications) for loss costs, experience, and filings questions, and XactRestore for restoration pricing and estimating context
- Useful for: underwriting and actuarial research and estimating context
- Setup & limit: access follows your existing Verisk entitlements and data governance
- Access: Outlook, SharePoint, Excel, and Teams connections, or Microsoft Copilot in your tenant
- Useful for: guidelines, manuals, reports, and compliance documents
- Setup & limit: keep claim files and customer data out of AI scope unless approved
- Access: Gmail, Drive, Sheets, and Calendar connections in Claude and ChatGPT
- Useful for: documents and analysis for teams on Google
- Setup & limit: follow data classification rules
- Access: scheduled exports of results, timelines, backlogs, and inventories without personal data
- Useful for: results narratives, timeline monitoring, and backlog analysis
- Setup & limit: name an owner; strip personal data
Needs an administrator
Useful, but someone needs to set access and permissions first.
- Access: launched April 2026 with an Agentic Underwriting Workbench and Agentic FNOL; its AI Gateway supports MCP and A2A for partner agents
- Useful for: submission intake and FNOL inside Duck Creek
- Setup & limit: configure human oversight, audit records, and limits before enabling agents
- Access: Guidewire offers a framework for P&C insurers to build AI agents on its platform
- Useful for: underwriting and claims workflows inside Guidewire
- Setup & limit: add every agent to your AI inventory and test before production
- Access: Applied Systems and Vertafore are adding AI features inside their agency platforms
- Useful for: producer prep, renewals, and service inside the system you use
- Setup & limit: review data access and privacy terms first
Integration project
Plan the use case, source data, permissions, and owner before connecting.
- Access: no direct general-purpose Claude or ChatGPT connection is assumed for your core systems
- Useful for: governed, minimum-necessary data feeds for file summaries and analytics
- Setup & limit: privacy review, access logging, and an AI inventory entry required
- Access: Databricks, Snowflake, and similar platforms with governed AI features
- Useful for: loss trends, leakage analysis, and model monitoring
- Setup & limit: curated views; classification enforced
- Access: Shift Technology, SAS, FRISS, and others
- Useful for: alert and link analysis outputs for SIU
- Setup & limit: outputs are leads; restrict to SIU and claims
Good to know
Limits and honest gaps.
- Access: applications, claim files, medical records, and financial data
- Useful for: only tools approved under your privacy program (GLBA, state data security laws, HIPAA where applicable)
- Setup & limit: default to IDs and aggregates
- Access: this playbook is for insurance businesses
- Useful for: not covered here
- Setup & limit: consumers should work with licensed agents or the carrier
Tools
Choose the AI tools and insurance software that fit your organization. The goal is to make your existing systems easier to use, not replace everything at once.
AI Assistants & LLMs
7Underwriting Automation
7Claims Processing
7Fraud Detection
6Policy Administration
5Agency & Distribution
6Actuarial & Pricing
5Compliance & AI Governance
512 AI Agents for Insurance
An agent is an assistant for one recurring job. It gathers the right information, follows your process, and prepares the work for someone to review and decide.
A good first agent handles one task your team already does, reads approved sources, never makes underwriting or claims decisions, and hands its work to a named person, with an entry in your AI inventory.
# Submission Triage Assistant ## Job to be done Get complete, in-appetite submissions to underwriters faster. ## When it runs When a new submission arrives. ## Approved context Submission documents, appetite guides, required document lists. ## Operating loop Check completeness; flag possible out-of-appetite items; summarize loss runs; draft missing-info requests. ## What it delivers A triaged submission with summary. ## Human owner Underwriting operations manager. ## What it must never do Never decline, quote, or contact brokers. ## How to measure it Time to first touch, submission-to-quote time. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# Renewal Pre-Review Builder ## Job to be done Prepare renewal files 90 days out. ## When it runs 90 days before each renewal. ## Approved context Expiring terms, exposures, loss activity, rate guidance. ## Operating loop Summarize changes; list questions for brokers; flag items for underwriter decision. ## What it delivers A renewal pre-review. ## Human owner Underwriter. ## What it must never do Never set renewal terms. ## How to measure it Renewal processing time, retention. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# Claim File Summarizer ## Job to be done Give adjusters an organized file at first review. ## When it runs When new documents are added to a claim. ## Approved context Claim file contents, policy provisions. ## Operating loop Summarize facts; quote provisions; list gaps; flag injury or emergency indicators. ## What it delivers An updated file summary. ## Human owner Assigned adjuster. ## What it must never do Never decide coverage, reserves, or payment. ## How to measure it Time to first decision, re-contact rate. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# Regulatory Timeline Watch ## Job to be done Keep every claim within state acknowledgment and decision timeframes. ## When it runs Daily. ## Approved context Claim diaries, milestones, state timeline rules. ## Operating loop List claims approaching or past required timeframes; group by adjuster. ## What it delivers A timeline risk list. ## Human owner Claims supervisor. ## What it must never do Never contact claimants or close files. ## How to measure it Timeline violations, DOI complaints. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# Letter Drafter ## Job to be done Speed up decision and status letters. ## When it runs When an adjuster records a decision or status change. ## Approved context Decision notes, provisions, templates, state requirements. ## Operating loop Draft letter with required content and rights; flag missing elements. ## What it delivers A letter draft for approval. ## Human owner Adjuster. ## What it must never do Never send letters or change decisions. ## How to measure it Letter turnaround, letter-related complaints. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# Subrogation Opportunity Finder ## Job to be done Catch recovery opportunities before they're lost. ## When it runs Weekly; at claim closure. ## Approved context Claim details, causes, third parties, payments. ## Operating loop Flag claims with recovery potential; list evidence needed. ## What it delivers A subrogation referral list. ## Human owner Subrogation manager. ## What it must never do Never send demands or contact third parties. ## How to measure it Recoveries, referral rate. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# SIU Referral Pre-Screen ## Job to be done Apply written referral indicators consistently. ## When it runs When fraud platform alerts or adjuster flags arrive. ## Approved context Claim summaries, written indicators, platform alerts. ## Operating loop List indicators with facts; summarize alerts as leads; draft referral packet. ## What it delivers A referral packet for SIU. ## Human owner SIU manager. ## What it must never do Never conclude fraud, delay legitimate payments, or contact claimants. ## How to measure it Referral quality, confirmed-finding rate, false positives. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# Agency Renewal Book Watch ## Job to be done Get producers ahead of renewals with big changes. ## When it runs Weekly; 120 days before renewals. ## Approved context Agency management system renewal lists. ## Operating loop Flag large increases and remarketing needs; prep talking points. ## What it delivers A renewal priority list. ## Human owner Account managers and producers. ## What it must never do Never contact clients or bind coverage. ## How to measure it Retention, renewal lead time. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# Notice Compliance Checker ## Job to be done Stop defective cancellation and non-renewal notices before mailing. ## When it runs Before each notice batch. ## Approved context Notice queue, state requirements. ## Operating loop Check advance notice and reason requirements; flag defects. ## What it delivers A notice exception list. ## Human owner Policy service supervisor. ## What it must never do Never mail or cancel. ## How to measure it Defective notices caught. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# Complaint Response Drafter ## Job to be done Respond to DOI complaints on time. ## When it runs When a DOI complaint is logged. ## Approved context Complaint, file history, deadlines. ## Operating loop Draft factual response; list deadline and approvals needed. ## What it delivers A response draft. ## Human owner Complaints manager. ## What it must never do Never send responses. ## How to measure it On-time responses, repeat complaints. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# AI Inventory & Monitoring Reporter ## Job to be done Keep the AI inventory and monitoring evidence exam-ready. ## When it runs Monthly; when a new AI system or vendor feature is proposed. ## Approved context AI system list, testing and monitoring records, vendor info. ## Operating loop Update inventory; flag missing testing, owners, or documentation; summarize monitoring. ## What it delivers An AI governance status report. ## Human owner AI governance committee. ## What it must never do Never approve AI systems or change models. ## How to measure it Inventory completeness, exam findings. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
# Monthly Results Narrator ## Job to be done Cut the time to produce monthly results narratives. ## When it runs Monthly after close. ## Approved context Results by line, plan, prior year, cat losses. ## Operating loop Compute ratios; explain drivers; list questions. ## What it delivers A draft narrative. ## Human owner Controller or CFO. ## What it must never do Never change reserves or distribute reports. ## How to measure it Prep time, edits needed. ## Operating rules 1. Use only approved sources and follow the linked insurance skill. 2. Cite policy, claim, or submission IDs and separate facts from assumptions. 3. Route regulatory deadlines, injury or emergency indicators, and possible unfair treatment to the human owner immediately. 4. Keep an audit record of trigger, inputs, output, reviewer, decision, and override, consistent with your written AI program. 5. Stop and ask for human review when policy language, guidelines, law, or authority are unclear. 6. Never handle personal or health information outside approved systems.
AI for Underwriting
From submission to decision. AI organizes submissions, summarizes risk, and surfaces guidelines, while underwriters keep authority and judgment.
- Prompts: underwriting case summary, loss run summary, submission triage
- Skills: underwriting submission review; actuarial & model documentation support
- Connect: Verisk's ISO underwriting connector in Claude, your policy admin or underwriting workbench (Guidewire, Duck Creek, Sixfold, Federato)
- Agent: submission triage assistant; renewal pre-review builder
- What AI does: Extracts data from applications, loss runs, inspections, and supplements
- Structures: Documents into underwriting inputs
- Control: Underwriter verifies key fields
- What AI does: Checks completeness and written appetite fit
- Speeds: Time to first touch
- Control: Underwriter confirms any decline
- What AI does: Summarizes risk, exposures, and loss history
- Surfaces: Relevant guideline sections
- Control: Underwriter decides
- What AI does: Surfaces precedents and guidance for complex cases
- Maintains: Underwriter authority
- Control: No AI accept/decline
- What AI does: Assembles forms and endorsements per rules
- Delivers: Accurate documents faster
- Control: Underwriting reviews before issue
- What AI does: Runs sanctions screening and KYC steps in approved tools
- Flags: Matches for review
- Control: Compliance clears matches
Underwriting AI Implementation Checklist
WorkflowPre-Implementation
- Map current underwriting workflow (touchpoints, decision points)
- Audit data quality in policy and submission systems
- Write appetite and referral rules down
- Baseline: time to quote, hit ratio, file errors
- Add underwriting AI to your AI inventory
Post-Implementation
- Audit AI-assisted files for accuracy monthly
- Track time to quote vs. baseline
- Gather underwriter feedback
- Test for unfair discrimination per your AI program
- Monitor for drift and document results
- Human authority: Underwriters make every acceptance, decline, and pricing decision.
- Transparency: Underwriters can see why AI flagged or summarized something.
- Fair underwriting: Test models and data sources for unfair discrimination per your AI program and state rules.
- Consistency: Automated workflows follow the same filed rules and guidelines as people.
- Escalation: Define thresholds where cases always go to senior underwriters.
- Documentation: Keep model and data source documentation ready for regulators.
AI for Claims Processing
From FNOL to settlement. AI organizes files, drafts communications, and flags timelines, while licensed adjusters decide coverage and payment.
- Prompts: claim file review, FNOL intake summary, claims narrative review
- Skills: claim file organization; claims letters & communication; claims quality & leakage review
- Connect: claims system (Guidewire ClaimCenter, Duck Creek Claims, including Duck Creek's agentic FNOL), Verisk XactRestore connector for estimating context
- Agent: claim file summarizer; regulatory timeline watch; letter drafter
- What AI does: Captures claim details from voice, chat, or forms
- Creates: Structured intake summaries
- Control: Injury and emergency flags go to people now
- What AI does: Reads invoices, estimates, records, and photos
- Speeds: Information gathering
- Control: Adjuster verifies
- What AI does: Facts, timelines, and quoted provisions
- Helps: Faster, consistent decisions
- Control: Adjuster decides coverage
- What AI does: Routes simple, rules-clear claims for fast handling
- Achieves: Quicker payment on clear claims
- Control: Set dollar limits and audit samples
- What AI does: Line-by-line estimate differences
- Supports: Appraisers and adjusters
- Control: People set payment amounts
- What AI does: Patterns, leakage, and timeline risks
- Surfaces: Systemic issues
- Control: Leaders decide actions
Claims AI Implementation Checklist
WorkflowPre-Implementation
- Map claims workflow from FNOL through settlement
- Document state timeline rules
- Define simple-claim criteria and dollar limits
- Baseline: cycle time, complaints, leakage
- Add claims AI to your AI inventory
Post-Implementation
- Audit AI-assisted files monthly
- Track cycle time and timeline compliance
- Measure customer satisfaction after settlement
- Test for unfair outcomes across groups and geographies
- Review letters and complaints
- Adjuster authority: Coverage, liability, reserves, and payment are decided by licensed adjusters.
- No AI denials: Every denial is a human decision with documented reasons and rights.
- Limits: Define maximum amounts and claim types for any automated workflow, and spot-check approvals.
- Transparency: Follow state rules on disclosing AI use and explaining decisions.
- Appeals: Make it simple to dispute decisions.
- Timelines: Monitor unfair claims practices timeframes daily.
AI for Distribution & Sales
Grow through agents and brokers. AI prepares producers, prioritizes renewals, and drafts communication, while licensed producers advise clients.
- Prompts: coverage review talking points, renewal book review, carrier appetite matching
- Skills: agency & producer support; customer & distribution communication
- Connect: agency management systems (Applied Epic, Vertafore AMS360) and their built-in AI, Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
- Agent: agency renewal book watch
- What AI does: Ranks leads by fit and readiness
- Prioritizes: Producer time
- Control: Test for unfair treatment
- What AI does: Assembles information for quotes
- Speeds: Quote turnaround
- Control: Filed rates and rules only
- What AI does: Summarizes current coverage and questions
- Supports: Licensed advice
- Control: Producers advise
- What AI does: Drafts follow-ups and talking points
- Saves: Producer time
- Control: Producer edits and sends
- What AI does: Flags large increases and remarketing needs
- Improves: Retention
- Control: Producer decides
- What AI does: Reconciles statements to policies
- Catches: Missing commissions
- Control: Accounting verifies
Distribution AI Implementation Checklist
WorkflowPre-Implementation
- Audit lead sources and producer productivity
- Write lead scoring criteria and test for bias
- Document suitability and consent rules
- Baseline: close rate, retention, quote time
- Review AI features in your agency system
Post-Implementation
- Compare lead scores to actual conversions
- Track retention month over month
- Measure producer time saved
- Audit recommendations for suitability
- Review consent and privacy practices
- Licensed advice: Only licensed producers recommend coverage.
- Fair treatment: Audit lead scoring and offers for unfair discrimination.
- Consent: Follow marketing consent and privacy rules.
- Data privacy: Never share customer data with unapproved tools.
- Producer control: Producers can override any AI suggestion.
- Accuracy: Certificates and quotes must match policies and filed rates.
AI for Fraud Detection & Prevention
AI can surface patterns humans miss. Investigators verify every lead, and every claimant is treated in good faith.
- Prompts: SIU referral indicator review, investigation plan, network link summary
- Skills: SIU referral & investigation support
- Connect: fraud platform outputs (Shift Technology, SAS, Verisk), claims system
- Agent: SIU referral pre-screen
- What AI does: Scores claims for referral review at intake
- Flags: Files meeting written criteria
- Control: Scores are leads, not findings
- What AI does: Finds possible duplicate or repeat claims
- Alerts: Investigators to patterns
- Control: Verify before acting
- What AI does: Finds connections among claimants, providers, and addresses
- Uncovers: Possible organized activity
- Control: Connections may be coincidental
- What AI does: Compares narratives, photos, and metadata
- Detects: Inconsistencies to ask about
- Control: Ask neutrally first
- What AI does: Flags outlier billing for review
- Supports: Medical fraud investigations
- Control: Provider rights apply
- What AI does: Tracks precision and fairness of alerts
- Improves: Investigator focus
- Control: Compliance reviews disparities
Fraud Detection AI Implementation Checklist
WorkflowPre-Implementation
- Analyze historical cases (confirmed, suspected, closed)
- Write referral indicators down
- Define investigation SLAs and capacity
- Baseline: referral quality, false positives
- Document state fraud reporting rules
Post-Implementation
- Track investigation outcomes
- Review false positive rates and tune
- Audit fairness across claim types and geographies
- Ensure legitimate claims aren't delayed
- Update the anti-fraud plan
- Human review: Investigators decide; every adverse action is a documented human decision.
- Good faith: Customers are treated fairly; suspicion isn't proof.
- No delay by default: Legitimate claims aren't held because of a score alone.
- Legal compliance: Follow state fraud statutes, reporting duties, and unfair claims practices rules.
- Data accuracy: Audit data and model performance regularly.
- Bias prevention: Review alert patterns for unfair disparities.
AI for Policy Administration & Service
Use AI to review endorsements, check notices, explain coverage in plain language, and reduce service backlogs. Service and underwriting staff decide.
- Prompts: endorsement request review, notice compliance check, policy form comparison
- Skills: policy service operations; customer & distribution communication
- Connect: policy administration system (Guidewire PolicyCenter, Duck Creek Policy, Majesco) and service platforms
- Agent: notice compliance checker; complaint response drafter
- What AI does: Checks requests against referral rules
- Speeds: Service turnaround
- Control: Underwriting referrals respected
- What AI does: Advance notice and reason requirements
- Prevents: Defective cancellations
- Control: Compliance confirms rules
- What AI does: Coverage changes between versions
- Supports: Product communication
- Control: Product counsel reviews
- What AI does: Explains key terms
- Helps: Customer understanding
- Control: The policy controls
- What AI does: Payments, lapses, and reinstatements
- Prevents: Unintended lapses
- Control: Supervisor decides
- What AI does: Service volume and SLA breaches
- Targets: Staffing and automation
- Control: Rules-based tasks only
Policy Service Checklist
WorkflowBefore You Start
- Document referral and notice rules by state
- Export service queues
- Collect templates
- Baseline: backlog age, SLA breaches
- Name owners
After You Start
- Check every notice batch
- Track backlog weekly
- Review summaries with product counsel
- Audit endorsements monthly
- Survey agents on service
- Contracts: Summaries never change the policy; the policy controls.
- Notices: State rules on cancellation and non-renewal are strict.
- Referrals: Underwriting decides changes that require referral.
- Data: Policyholder data stays in approved systems.
- Communication: Staff send all customer communication.
AI for Compliance & AI Governance
Use AI to build inventories, document programs, check timelines, and prepare for exams under the NAIC Model Bulletin and state rules. Compliance and counsel decide.
- Prompts: AI system inventory, AI program draft, market conduct readiness
- Skills: AI governance & market conduct readiness; regulatory compliance checks
- Connect: GRC system, model inventory, policy library
- Agent: AI inventory & monitoring reporter; regulatory timeline watch
- What AI does: Every AI system, use, owner, and risk tier
- Helps: Exam readiness
- Control: Governance committee confirms
- What AI does: Sections aligned with the NAIC Bulletin
- Helps: Meet state expectations
- Control: Counsel reviews
- What AI does: Due diligence and audit rights
- Helps: Own vendor risk
- Control: Contracts need audit rights
- What AI does: Unfair discrimination testing approach
- Helps: State rule readiness
- Control: Actuarial and compliance decide methods
- What AI does: Unfair claims practices timeframes
- Helps: Fewer exam findings
- Control: Supervisors act
- What AI does: Data requests and evidence
- Helps: Smoother exams
- Control: Compliance leads
AI Governance Checklist
ControlsStrategy
- Draft AI use policy and get leadership sign-off
- Form AI governance committee (legal, compliance, actuarial, underwriting, claims, IT, risk)
- Build the AI system inventory
- Adopt a written AI program aligned with the NAIC Bulletin as adopted in your states
- Define escalation rules
Execution
- Train staff on responsible AI use
- Test high-impact systems for unfair discrimination
- Monitor models and document results
- Review vendor AI under contract audit rights
- Prepare for AI-related market conduct requests
- NAIC Model Bulletin on the Use of AI Systems by Insurers: adopted by 25 states as of July 2026, with more in progress; expects a written AI program, governance, testing, monitoring, and vendor oversight.
- NAIC AI Systems Evaluation Tool: helps regulators assess governance in exams.
- Colorado: insurance-specific governance and testing rules for unfair discrimination.
- New York DFS Circular Letter No. 7 (2024): expectations for AI and external consumer data in underwriting and pricing.
- Unfair claims settlement practices, privacy, and insurance data security laws continue to apply to AI-assisted work.
Set Up & Get Running
If you already use prompts, here is how to turn one into a repeatable skill and then a useful first agent. Start with a task that already works.
From prompt to first agent
- Choose a recurring task
- Use data allowed in your approved tool
- Good first choices: loss run summary, claim file summary, or timeline check
- Write down inputs, output, and reviewer
- Test on three real cases
- Improve when results are unclear
- Start with reference data (e.g., Verisk connectors) and documents
- Review agentic features in your core platform
- Keep personal data in approved systems
- Start with a preparation or monitoring task
- Add it to your AI inventory
- Track time saved, accuracy, and fairness
It's useful, low-risk, and easy to check. It compares claim milestones to state timeframes and flags claims at risk for supervisors. It doesn't contact claimants or decide anything.
Copy these builders
Use the first after a prompt works. Use the second only after the skill has been tested on real work.
Days 1-30: Foundation
- Assign an AI champion (underwriting or claims leader)
- Form the AI governance committee
- Start the AI system inventory
- Pick one workflow: underwriting summaries or claim file summaries
- Establish baseline KPIs
- Draft the AI use policy
- Train the pilot team
Days 31-60: Expand
- Roll out the first workflow to the full team
- Add a second use case (SIU referral pre-screen or renewal pre-review)
- Measure improvement vs. baseline
- Launch monitoring and audit trails
- Review vendor AI features and contracts
- Get leadership approval on the AI use policy
Days 61-90: Standardize
- Deploy a third workflow
- Adopt the written AI program
- Write SOPs for each AI-assisted workflow
- Complete fairness testing for high-impact uses
- Present results to leadership
- Plan the next wave
Implementation Success Metrics
Goals30-Day Targets
- Pilot running with review
- Baseline KPIs documented
- AI inventory started
- No personal data in unapproved tools
60-Day Targets
- Time saved measured
- Two workflows live
- Monitoring active
- Policy approved
90-Day Targets
- Three workflows with SOPs
- Written AI program adopted
- Fairness testing documented
- Results presented
- Next wave approved
Week 1: Announce the AI initiative to leadership. Share the 90-day roadmap. Recruit pilot volunteers.
Weeks 2-3: Train the pilot team. Go live with file summaries for a small volume.
Week 4: Share early results and feedback. Brief leadership.
Weeks 5-8: Roll out to the full team. Add a second use case. Share tips weekly.
Week 9: Formalize the AI program and SOPs. Leadership signs off on controls.
Weeks 10-12: Measure impact. Present results. Plan expansion.
How the Pieces Fit Together
Start with a prompt. Save the ones that work. Add the systems and files they need. Then use an agent for recurring work, with someone checking the result.
- Ask AI to do one clear task
- Use it for a quick draft, analysis, or explanation
- Check the result before you use it
- Save the step-by-step instructions for a task your team repeats
- Add your policies, examples, and review steps
- Update it when your process or regulations change
- Bring the right systems, files, and reports into the task
- Stop copying and pasting information by hand
- Start read-only, with only the sources the task needs
- Run a skill on a schedule or when something happens
- Gather the information, prepare the work, and flag issues
- Leave underwriting, claims, fraud, and advice decisions with licensed people
Why AI Matters in Insurance
Speed up underwriting and claims work, improve consistency, and catch issues earlier, while licensed professionals keep their authority.
- Faster submission triage and summaries
- More time on judgment, less on reading
- Consistent use of guidelines
- Better documentation for audits
- Organized files at first review
- Faster letters and status updates
- Timeline monitoring
- Less re-contact and rework
- Prepared producers
- Earlier renewal outreach
- Placement matching
- Accurate commissions
- AI inventories and written programs
- Timeline and notice checks
- Exam readiness
- Vendor oversight
- Consistent referral criteria
- Link analysis summaries
- Better investigator focus
- Fairness monitoring of alerts
- Complex judgment calls
- Novel losses without precedent
- Coverage interpretation
- Ethical and fairness decisions
AI Capabilities Explained
No jargon. What AI actually does in insurance, in plain English.
Interprets policy documents, claim narratives, and applications to extract meaning.
In insurance: policy analysis, claim narrative review, guideline Q&A.
Reads and extracts data from forms, invoices, records, and photos.
In insurance: application and loss run extraction, claim document processing.
Uses history to estimate outcomes like frequency, severity, and fraud likelihood.
In insurance: risk scoring, claim severity projection, renewal prediction (with fairness testing).
Finds hidden connections across large datasets.
In insurance: possible fraud rings, related parties.
Flags unusual patterns compared to normal.
In insurance: unusual claim patterns, pricing outliers, billing anomalies.
Agents that coordinate multi-step tasks inside insurance platforms.
In insurance: Duck Creek's agentic FNOL and underwriting workbench, with human oversight.
Drafts letters, summaries, and communications.
In insurance: decision letters after adjuster decisions, renewal explanations, bulletins.
Reads images and video.
In insurance: damage photo review and property imagery, verified by people.
Governance, Ethics & Compliance
How to use AI in insurance responsibly: fairness, transparency, privacy, and compliance with regulators.
- Test underwriting, pricing, claims, and fraud models for unfair discrimination
- Review external data sources before use
- Document tests and remediation
- Follow state rules (e.g., Colorado, New York)
- Comply with GLBA, state insurance data security laws, and HIPAA where applicable
- Minimize personal data shared with AI tools
- Encrypt and log access
- Data processing agreements with vendors
- Follow state rules on disclosing AI use
- Explain decisions and appeal rights clearly
- Adverse action notices where required
- No impersonation of human underwriters or adjusters
- Written AI program where adopted (25 states as of July 2026)
- Governance and accountability structure
- Pre-deployment testing and ongoing monitoring
- Vendor oversight with audit rights
- Underwriters decide acceptance and terms
- Adjusters decide coverage and payment
- Investigators decide fraud findings
- Producers give advice
- AI inventory with versions and owners
- Log AI-assisted decisions and inputs
- Explainability for high-impact uses
- Ready for market conduct requests
Governance Checklist
ControlsStrategy
- AI use policy approved by leadership
- AI governance committee formed
- AI system inventory built
- Written AI program aligned with the NAIC Bulletin
- Escalation rules defined
Execution
- Staff trained on responsible AI
- High-impact systems tested for unfair discrimination
- Monitoring and documentation in place
- Vendor AI reviewed
- Market conduct readiness maintained
Approved tools: [list approved platforms and enterprise AI accounts]. All others require CISO and compliance approval and an AI inventory entry.
Underwriting: AI may summarize and organize; licensed underwriters make every acceptance, decline, and pricing decision.
Claims: AI may organize files and draft letters; licensed adjusters decide coverage, reserves, and payment. Any automated simple-claim workflow has defined dollar limits, criteria, and sampling audits. No automated denials.
Fraud: AI alerts are leads. Investigators verify before any adverse action; legitimate claims aren't delayed by a score alone.
Data: Never enter customer personal, financial, or health information into unapproved AI tools.
Fairness: Test high-impact models and external data for unfair discrimination before use and on a schedule; remediate and document.
Audit: Log AI-assisted decisions with inputs, outputs, reviewer, and outcome per our retention schedule.
Training: All staff using AI complete responsible AI training annually.
Approval: [Chief Compliance Officer / AI Governance Committee], [date]
AI Maturity Model for Insurance
Assess your current state. Define your target. Plan the progression.
Manual + Ad Hoc
- Individuals using consumer AI for summaries
- No formal AI tools or governance
- Inconsistent use across teams
- No AI inventory
- Regulatory risk: undocumented AI use
Tool-Based Adoption
- 1-2 approved AI tools or platform features
- Basic SOPs for AI use
- Team trained
- Simple metrics
- AI inventory started
Embedded AI Workflows
- AI across underwriting, claims, fraud, and service
- Written AI program and governance committee
- Documented SOPs
- Regular monitoring and fairness testing
- Vendor oversight
Governed & Connected
- Agents with human oversight in core platforms
- Complete inventory and monitoring
- Exam-ready documentation
- Board-level oversight
- Continuous improvement
Maturity Self-Assessment
AssessmentOrganization
- AI champion assigned
- AI governance committee formed
- AI use policy approved
- Budget for tools and training
Technology & Process
- Approved AI tools deployed
- SOPs for each AI workflow
- Team trained
- Pilot results measured
Controls & Compliance
- Licensed staff make all decisions
- Audit trail in place
- Fairness testing documented
- AI inventory current
Measurement
- Baseline KPIs
- Monthly tracking
- Results reported
- Feedback loop with staff and customers