System and method for administering telematics based reinsurance pools

• US 8,359,259 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2009
• Issued: 01/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company (The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company (The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Berg, Gregory H., Amigo, Andrew J., Peak, David F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lemieux, Jessica
• Application Number:
  US12/617,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20110112870A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,167 Days
• Field of Search: 705/4
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/08 Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time

Abstract

A data processing system includes a processor that is configured for determining a percentage share to assign a share of relative risk in an insurance pool between an insurer, a first safety vendor and at least one other safety vendor. The processor is further configured to allocate portions of the insurance pool among the insurer and the safety vendors according to the determined shares assigned to the insurer and the safety vendors, to aggregate by the insurer loss information related to the insurance pool, and transmit the loss information to the safety vendors. Also, the processor is configured to allocate portions of a claim liability or a received premium associated with the insurance pool among the insurer and the safety vendors according to the determined shares assigned to the insurer and the safety vendors. The data processing system also includes a memory for storing the determined shares assigned to the insurer and the safety vendors.

Claims

1. An automated data processing system comprising:

a communication device;

a processor coupled to the communication device;

a storage device in communication with said processor, the storage device storing instructions adapted to be executed by said processor for;

determining percentage shares to assign relative risk in a telematics based insurance pool between an insurer and one or more participating third party monitoring device providers, wherein the percentage shares for the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers are determined based at least in part on a percentage of monitoring devices deployed by at least one of the third party monitoring device providers;

allocating portions of the insurance pool among the insurer and the one or more third party monitoring device providers according to the determined percentage shares assigned to the insurer and the one or more third party monitoring device providers;

aggregating, by the insurer, telematics related loss information related to the monitoring devices deployed;

transmitting, via said communication device, the telematics related loss information to the third party monitoring device providers; and

allocating portions of a claim liability or a received premium associated with the insurance pool among the insurer and the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers according to the determined percentage shares assigned to the insurer and the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers; and

a memory for storing the determined percentage shares assigned to the insurer and the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers.

2. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring devices are installed in motor vehicles.

3. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring devices are attached to human bodies.

4. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein the memory stores information indicative of a proportion of a vehicle fleet in which the monitoring devices are deployed by one of said third party monitoring device providers, the processor determining the percentage shares based at least in part on said information.

5. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein the memory stores information indicative of a size of a first vehicle fleet which deploys monitoring devices supplied by a first one of said third party monitoring device suppliers and information indicative of a size of a second vehicle fleet which deploys monitoring devices supplied by a second one of said third party monitoring device suppliers, the processor determining the percentage shares based at least in part on said information.

6. A method, comprising:

determining, by a computer processor, percentage shares to assign relative risk in a telematics based insurance pool between an insurer and one or more participating third party monitoring device providers, wherein the percentage shares for the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers are determined based at least in part on a percentage of monitoring devices deployed by at least one of the third party monitoring device providers;

allocating, by the computer processor, portions of the insurance pool among the insurer and the one or more third party monitoring device providers according to the determined percentage shares assigned to the insurer and the one or more third party monitoring device providers;

aggregating, by the insurer, telematics related loss information related to the monitoring devices deployed;

transmitting the telematics related loss information to the third party monitoring device providers; and

automatically allocating, by the computer processor, portions of a claim liability or a received premium associated with the insurance pool among the insurer and the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers according to the determined percentage shares assigned to the insurer and the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the monitoring devices are installed in motor vehicles.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the monitoring devices are attached to human bodies.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining information indicative of a proportion of a vehicle fleet in which the monitoring devices are deployed by one of said third party monitoring device providers, wherein the percentage shares are determined based at least in part on said information.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining information indicative of a size of a first vehicle fleet which deploys monitoring devices supplied by a first one of said third party monitoring device suppliers and information indicative of a size of a second vehicle fleet which deploys monitoring devices supplied by a second one of said third party monitoring device suppliers, wherein the percentage shares are determined based at least in part on said information.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, result in the performance of a method, the method comprising:

determining percentage shares to assign relative risk in a telematics based insurance pool between an insurer and one or more participating third party monitoring device providers, wherein the percentage shares for the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers are determined based at least in part on a percentage of monitoring devices deployed by at least one of the third party monitoring device providers;

allocating portions of the insurance pool among the insurer and the one or more third party monitoring device providers according to the determined percentage shares assigned to the insurer and the one or more third party monitoring device providers;

aggregating, by the insurer, telematics related loss information related to the monitoring devices deployed;

transmitting the telematics related loss information to the third party monitoring device providers; and

automatically allocating portions of a claim liability or a received premium associated with the insurance pool among the insurer and the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers according to the determined percentage shares assigned to the insurer and the one or more participating third party monitoring device providers.

12. The medium of claim 11, wherein the monitoring devices are installed in motor vehicles.

13. The medium of claim 11, wherein the monitoring devices are attached to human bodies.

14. The medium of claim 11, further comprising:

determining information indicative of a proportion of a vehicle fleet in which the monitoring devices are deployed by one of said third party monitoring device providers, wherein the percentage shares are determined based at least in part on said information.

15. The medium of claim 11, further comprising:

determining information indicative of a size of a first vehicle fleet which deploys monitoring devices supplied by a first one of said third party monitoring device suppliers and information indicative of a size of a second vehicle fleet which deploys monitoring devices supplied by a second one of said third party monitoring device suppliers, wherein the percentage shares are determined based at least in part on said information.