Risk Assessment Company

• US 20090055227A1
• Filed: 10/30/2008
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomas L. Bakos
• Original Assignee: Thomas L. Bakos
• Inventors: Bakos, Thomas L.
• Application Number:
  US12/261,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055227A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

A Risk Assessment Company (RAC) maintains an up to date Risk Profile Data Base (RPDB) on its members based on their normal periodic health checkups. The Risk Assessment Company, therefore, can offer life or health insurance policies from a plurality of carriers to any given member at any given time based on the underwriting class determined by the data in the Risk Profile Data Base. The Risk Assessment Company can also provide a member with a life or health expectancy report containing suggestions on how said person can improve his or her life or health expectancy.

Claims

1. A method wherein the life or health risk of a person is evaluated based on information maintained in a Risk Profile Data Base (RPDB) and the result of said evaluation is used for one or both of the following purposes:

to offer an insurance policy in an underwriting class determined by the said evaluation;

to provide said person with a life or health expectancy report containing suggestions on how said person can improve said life or health expectancy.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein an insurance company issues an insurance policy with premium discounts comprised of expense savings realized by said insurance company as a result of underwriting expense savings.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein a Risk Assessment Company (RAC) creates the Risk Profile Data Base (RPDB) by soliciting and accepting individual subscribers who maintain current health information in said RPDB and categorizes said individual subscribers as:

active if said individual subscribers routinely update their information in said RPDB by following standards prescribed by said RAC wherein said update might consist of, for example, completing a routine physical exam and posting such results to said RPDB;

inactive if said individual subscribers do not follow standards established by the RAC for updating information in said RPDB.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein an insurance company issues an insurance policy to active individual subscribers with premium discounts comprised of mortality savings realized by said insurance company as a result of improved mortality experienced by said active individual subscribers.