Apparatuses, methods, and systems for building a risk evaluation product
The present disclosure describes an approach to constructing and implementing risk rating products that provides a number of advantages. Instead of hard-coding attributes of a risk rating scheme, which requires the assistance of a trained programming specialist for any modifications, adjustments, or new products, the present invention provides a set of modular tools that assist non-specialists in on-the-fly generation and implementation of risk rating products. The modularity of this approach facilitates the modification and/or updating of a system component without affecting the operation of other components. Described herein are embodiments of a risk rater data-structure, which comprises an abstracted representation of a risk rating scheme that may be loaded into and/or interpreted by other system components to generate a user interface for processing risk information and generating insurance quotes.
1. A processor-accessible electronic storage medium comprising:
a risk rater data structure, said risk rater data structure comprising:
a set of risk rater base criteria, comprising at least a unique risk rater identifier,
a plurality of risk characteristic input fields,
at least one expression comprising a mathematical operation to be performed on at least one risk characteristic received via a subset of the plurality of risk characteristic input fields,
a set of risk rater rule calls, specifying elements of a risk rater ruleset database, and
a set of risk rater lookup table calls, specifying elements of a risk rater lookup table database; and
processor-executable instructions to facilitate dynamic integration of risk rater rule calls from the risk rater data structure into a risk assessment base program;
wherein the risk rater ruleset database and the risk rater data structure are external to the risk assessment base program.
2. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the mathematical operation is further performed on data retrieved via the set of lookup table calls.
3. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the mathematical operation yields a financial metric associated with a candidate risk.
4. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 3 wherein the financial metric comprises a quote reflecting the price for insuring the candidate risk.
5. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the set of rule calls include at least one call to a rule referencing at least one risk characteristic.
6. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the set of rule calls include at least one call to a rule referencing data retrieved via the set of lookup table calls.
7. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the data-structure comprises an XML document.
8. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the set of risk rater base criteria further comprises an insurance carrier identifier.
9. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of risk characteristic fields admit characteristics of a property.
10. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the characteristics of a property include a geocode.
11. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the characteristics of a property include construction characteristics.
12. The processor-accessible electronic storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the subset of the plurality of the risk characteristic input fields comprises the entire plurality of the risk characteristic input fields.