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How BriteCore is Purpose-Built to Improve Combined Ratios for P&C Insurers

February 19, 2025

For Property and Casualty insurers, maintaining a healthy financial profile is always top of mind. With increasing claims costs, more restrictive reinsurance contracts, higher personnel costs, and ever more volatile weather, modern insurers are faced with the imperative to make more frequent and rapid changes to their products, change rates with great precision, and streamline operations.

Enter BriteCore: a cloud-native core insurance platform purpose-built to address these challenges head on, ultimately improving combined ratios for our customers.

Driving Growth with High Quality Premium

Achieving profitable growth in today’s market requires more than just increasing written premiums—it demands a focus on high-quality premium that is priced accurately and aligned with risk. BriteCore enables insurers to drive growth through:

  • Rapidly Creating New Lines of Business: BriteCore's inherent flexibility allows insurers to make product and line changes easily through no-code/low-code settings, eliminating the need to modify source code in the core system and enabling them to expand their offerings without major system overhauls. With all insurers on the same version of the core insurance platform, BriteCore ensures that every customer benefits from continuous innovation rather than becoming an 'island of one.' 
  • Configurability Around Rate Changes: BriteCore’s flexible rating engine allows insurers to quickly adjust pricing based on emerging risks, market trends, and regulatory changes, ensuring competitiveness and profitability.
  • Expanding into New Regions: With its scalable, cloud-native architecture, BriteCore enables insurers to enter new markets efficiently by adapting to varying regulatory environments and underwriting guidelines.
  • Identifying Insurance to Value (ITV) Opportunities: By integrating with external third-party vendors and data providers, BriteCore helps insurers pinpoint properties with undervalued coverage, allowing for proactive adjustments to ensure adequate premium and mitigate risk exposure.
  • Proactively Identifying Bad Risks: BriteCore enables insurers to simulate various risk scenarios and assess their impact on loss ratios. By leveraging predictive analytics, insurers can identify high-risk policies in their books before losses materialize, allowing for strategic risk mitigation and improved underwriting outcomes.

"Using BriteCore's ITV analytics, we discovered that 70% of our book of business was under-insured by more than 30%. This insight allowed us to adjust our pricing in BriteCore, ensuring our policies reflect accurate coverage values and driving necessary premium increases to improve our financial position and combined ratios." — President and CEO, Large Mid-Atlantic P&C Insurance Carrier

Configurability

A Key Differentiator

One of BriteCore’s standout features is its configurability. Insurers can adapt the platform to meet unique and fluctuating business needs, whether it’s changing existing products, entering a new market, introducing a new product line, or integrating with a specific vendor. This flexibility ensures that operational improvements are not constrained by technology, enabling insurers to remain competitive and responsive.

Optimizing Expense Ratios Through Operational Efficiency

Modern insurers are hyper-focused on managing their expenses to ensure they operate their businesses efficiently and profitably. BriteCore understands this mindset and enables insurers with:

  1. Automation of Repetitive Processes: BriteCore’s configurable workflows automate manual tasks such as policy issuance, renewals, and claims management. This reduces administrative overhead, freeing up resources for higher-value activities.
  2. Cloud-Native Architecture: As a cloud-native platform, BriteCore eliminates the need for on-premises infrastructure and associated data protection and maintenance costs. This lowers IT expenses and enables rapid scalability.
  3. Customizable Reporting and Dashboards: With BriteCore, insurers gain real-time, persona-based executive dashboards, high-performance stock reports, month-end close packages, and intuitive, customizable ad hoc reports.

Improving Loss Ratios with Better Underwriting and Claims Management

Insurers are fundamentally in the business of managing and mitigating risk. With increasing claims costs across the industry, BriteCore helps insurers better manage their loss ratios with:

  1. Enhanced Underwriting Precision: BriteCore integrates with over one hundred third-party insurance technology vendors and data sources to help provide measured and real-time risk assessments. Its rule-based underwriting engine ensures consistent decision-making aligned with an insurer’s risk appetite.
  2. Streamlined Claims Processing: The platform’s claims module accelerates the claims lifecycle with automated notifications, streamlined workflows, and integrated fraud detection tools. Faster claims resolutions lead to better customer satisfaction and reduced leakage.
  3. Advanced Risk Insights: Through predictive analytics, BriteCore empowers insurers to identify trends, anticipate emerging risks, and adjust pricing or coverage accordingly. This proactive approach minimizes exposure and improves overall risk management.

Continuous Innovation

As a cloud-native, software-as-a-service core insurance platform, BriteCore delivers regular product updates and enhancements enjoyed by all of our customers. This ensures that all customers benefit from the latest technological advancements without the need for disruptive upgrades. Continuous innovation included in one all-inclusive SaaS subscription translates to long-term cost savings, limited disruptions, and the ability to leverage emerging technologies, such as AI and machine learning, to further improve underwriting and claims performance.

Real-World Impact

Insurers who have implemented BriteCore have reported measurable improvements in their combined ratios. Every carrier has different and unique initiatives. However, by enabling rapid product and rate changes, reducing operational costs, improving underwriting accuracy, and streamlining claims processes, these insurers are better positioned to achieve underwriting profitability and sustain long-term growth.

Conclusion

Achieving and maintaining target Combined Ratios is imperative for P&C insurers. This is a hard problem, made much harder by archaic, legacy policy administration systems built during a less complex and dynamic era of the past. BriteCore’s cloud-native core insurance platform is purpose-built to help Insurers manage their Combined Ratios in the modern era, offering tools and capabilities that help optimize expenses and claims costs. With its emphasis on efficiency, accuracy, and innovation, BriteCore helps insurers focus on what they do best—protecting policyholders while driving profitability.

To learn more about how BriteCore can help improve your combined ratio, contact us today or schedule a demo.

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