Reimagining Commercial Insurance with AI: Intelligent Risk Assessment, Dynamic Pricing, and Predictive Claims Management
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15662/wdj4rf44Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, Commercial Insurance, Intelligent Underwriting, Dynamic Pricing, Predictive Claims Analytics, Telematics, Internet of Things (IoT), Explainable AI, Insurance Analytics, Regulatory ComplianceAbstract
The commercial insurance industry is at a critical inflection point as traditional underwriting, pricing, and claims management models struggle to keep pace with the complexity, speed, and volatility of modern risk environments. Rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, cloud computing, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are fundamentally reshaping how insurers assess risk, price policies, and manage claims across large-scale commercial portfolios. This paper presents a comprehensive technical exploration of how AI-driven architectures enable intelligent risk assessment, dynamic pricing, and predictive claims management in commercial insurance ecosystems. It examines end-to-end AI pipelines spanning real-time data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, explainable AI (XAI), and regulatory-compliant deployment. The study further integrates real-world industry case studies, including Zurich’s IoT-enabled risk scoring, Progressive’s telematics-driven pricing, and Lemonade’s AI-based claims automation. Regulatory alignment with the NAIC AI Governance Framework, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and the EU AI Act is also addressed. The paper demonstrates that AI-powered insurance platforms can significantly enhance underwriting precision, reduce claims settlement time, improve fraud detection, and enable continuous, behavior-driven premium optimization, positioning AI as the foundational engine of next-generation commercial insurance.
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