System and method for creating customized insurance-related forms using computing devices
A system and method for creating customized insurance-related forms (e.g., agreements, policies, exceptions, and other insurance-related documents) using computing devices is disclosed. A user can quickly and conveniently create customized insurance-related forms, and can transmit same to one or more remote users and/or computing systems for further processing. The system provides rich tagged searching and editing features for allowing an insurance professional to rapidly create customized forms, and to access other forms while editing a given form. The system ingests and decomposes insurance-related forms into clauses, applies search tags to the clauses, and stores the clauses and the search tags in a database for rapid searching and retrieval of desired tags for use in creating customized forms.
1. A system for creating customized insurance forms, comprising:
a computer system having a memory, a processor, and a user interface; and
a custom forms software application stored in the memory and executed by the processor, the custom forms software application including:
a form search module retrieving at least one pre-defined form from a database and displaying the form to the user via the user interface;
a form editor module for allowing the user to edit the pre-defined form using the user interface, the form editor module allowing the user to select a desired term in the pre-defined form using a text highlighting tool of the user interface to highlight the desired term in the pre-defined form; and
a clause searching module for retrieving one or more desired clauses from the database corresponding to the desired term in response to the user selecting the desired term in the pre-defined form using the text highlighting tool and allowing the user to insert the one or more desired clauses into the pre-defined form by actuating an icon displayed next to the one or more desired clauses, the icon causing the one or more desired clauses to be automatically inserted into the pre-defined form in order to create a customized form,
wherein the custom forms software application ingests a plurality of insurance-related forms transmitted to the computer system, decomposes the plurality of insurance-related forms into a plurality of clauses, applies a search tag to each of the plurality of clauses, assigns a score for each search tag, and stores the plurality of clauses and the search tags in the database.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the clause searching module searches for desired clauses from the database using the search tags.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system monitors for a change made by the user to one or more forms stored in the database.
4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the system identifies one or more additional forms that are related to the one or more forms changed by the user.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the system generates an alert if the change made by the user impacts the one or more additional forms, and transmits the alert to the user.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system displays the pre-defined form in a first display portion of the user interface, and displays the one or more desired clauses in a second display portion of the user interface.
7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the user can click on one of the one or more desired clauses in the second display portion to cause the one of the one or more displayed clauses to be inserted into the pre-defined form at a desired location of the pre-defined form.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system automatically recommends a clause stored in the database for insertion into the pre-defined form.
9. A method for creating a customized insurance form, comprising the steps of:
electronically receiving at a computer system a plurality of insurance-related forms;
ingesting and decomposing each of the plurality of insurance-related forms into a plurality of clauses using a software application executing on the computer system;
electronically applying a search tag to each of the plurality of clauses;
assigning a score for each search tag;
storing the plurality of clauses and the tags in a database;
allowing the user to search for and load into the computer system a pre-defined insurance form;
allowing the user to search for one or more desired clauses from the plurality of clauses in the database by highlighting a desired term in the pre-defined insurance form using a text highlighting tool, the computer system searching for the one or more desired clauses in response to the desired term being highlighted in the pre-defined insurance form;
displaying the one or more desired clauses at the computer system; and
allowing the user to edit the pre-defined insurance form into a customized form by actuating an icon displayed next to the one or more desired clauses, the icon automatically causing the one or more desired clauses to be inserted into the pre-defined form.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising searching for the one or more desired clauses from the database using the search tags.
11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising automatically monitoring for a change made by the user to one or more forms stored in the database.
12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising automatically identifying by the computer system one or more additional forms that are related to the one or more forms changed by the user.
13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising automatically generating by the computer system an alert if the change made by the user impacts the one or more additional forms, and transmitting the alert to the user.
14. The method of claim 9 , further comprising displaying by the computer system the pre-defined form in a first display portion of a user interface, and displaying the one or more desired clauses in a second display portion of the user interface.
15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising allowing the user to click on one of the one or more desired clauses in the second display portion to cause the one of the one or more displayed clauses to be inserted into the pre-defined form at a desired location of the pre-defined form.
16. The method of claim 9 , further comprising automatically recommending a clause stored in the database for insertion into the pre-defined form.
17. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer system, cause the computer system to execute steps for creating a customized insurance form, the steps comprising:
electronically receiving at a computer system a plurality of insurance-related forms;
ingesting and decomposing each of the plurality of insurance-related forms into a plurality of clauses using a software application executing on the computer system;
electronically applying a search tag to each of the plurality of clauses;
assigning a score to each search tag;
storing the plurality of clauses and the tags in a database;
allowing the user to search for and load into the computer system a pre-defined insurance form;
allowing the user to search for one or more desired clauses from the plurality of clauses in the database by highlighting a desired term in the pre-defined insurance form using a text highlighting tool, the computer system searching for the one or more desired clauses in response to the desired term being highlighted in the pre-defined insurance form;
displaying the one or more desired clauses at the computer system; and
allowing the user to edit the pre-defined insurance form into a customized form by actuating an icon displayed next to the one or more desired clauses, the icon automatically causing the one or more desired clauses to be inserted into the pre-defined form.
18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17 , further instructions for searching for the one or more desired clauses from the database using the search tags.
19. The computer-readable medium of claim 17 , further comprising instructions for automatically monitoring for a change made by the user to one or more forms stored in the database.
20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19 , further comprising instructions for automatically identifying by the computer system one or more additional forms that are related to the one or more forms changed by the user.
21. The computer-readable medium of claim 20 , further comprising instructions for automatically generating by the computer system an alert if the change made by the user impacts the one or more additional forms, and transmitting the alert to the user.
22. The computer-readable medium of claim 17 , further comprising instructions displaying by the computer system the pre-defined form in a first display portion of a user interface, and displaying the one or more desired clauses in a second display portion of the user interface.
23. The computer-readable medium of claim 22 , further comprising instructions for allowing the user to click on one of the one or more desired clauses in the second display portion to cause the one of the one or more displayed clauses to be inserted into the pre-defined form at a desired location of the pre-defined form.
24. The computer-readable medium of claim 17 , further comprising instructions for automatically recommending a clause stored in the database for insertion into the pre-defined form.