The impact of insurance fraud detection systems

Joerg Schiller ()

No 8, Working Papers on Risk and Insurance from University of Hamburg, Institute for Risk and Insurance

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to characterize the impact of fraud detection systems on the auditing procedure and the equilibrium insurance contract, when a policyholder can report a loss that never occurred. Insurers can only detect fraudulent claims through a costly audit (costly state verification). With fraud detection system insurers can depend their audit on the signal of the system and auditing becomes more effective. This paper presents conditions under which insurance fraud and the resulting welfare losses can be reduced by the implementation of a costly fraud detection system that is supplied by an external third party.

Keywords: insurance fraud; auditing; detection system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 G22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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Journal Article: The Impact of Insurance Fraud Detection Systems (2006)
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