Machine Learning in Ratemaking, an Application in Commercial Auto Insurance

Spencer Matthews and Brian Hartman
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Spencer Matthews: Department of Statistics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California—Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Brian Hartman: Department of Statistics, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA

Risks, 2022, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-25

Abstract: This paper explores the tuning and results of two-part models on rich datasets provided through the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS). These datasets include bodily injury (BI), property damage (PD) and collision (COLL) coverage, each documenting policy characteristics and claims across a four-year period. The datasets are explored, including summaries of all variables, then the methods for modeling are set forth. Models are tuned and the tuning results are displayed, after which we train the final models and seek to explain select predictions. Data were provided by a private insurance carrier to the CAS after anonymizing the dataset. These data are available to actuarial researchers for well-defined research projects that have universal benefit to the insurance industry and the public. Our hope is that the methods demonstrated here can be a good foundation for future ratemaking models to be developed and tested more efficiently.

Keywords: ratemaking; machine learning; explainability; auto insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C G0 G1 G2 G3 K2 M2 M4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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