GIS helps insurance companies flourish by giving you the tools to leverage this geographic component to manage your exposure to loss while successfully competing in an increasingly demanding marketplace.

Royal & SunAlliance

Royal & SunAlliance's Rob Osmet, a 2006 ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award winner, talks about his company's pioneering integration of ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server technology with core business processes to improve insurance industry performance. The company is using GIS technology for validation and geocoding, to make peril risk assessments, and to support risk accumulation management.

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Processing Claims
GIS helps process claims more quickly by mapping the location of the claim relative to other claims and to boundaries such as flood and storm limits.

Risk Assessment
GIS helps insurers analyze, visualize, and distribute risk spatially while avoiding the illegal practice of redlining.

Reinsurance
Reinsurers turn to GIS as a critical tool in helping them perform risk assessment.

Regulatory Compliance
GIS is a critical tool to managing the geographic complexity of regulatory compliance.

Market Development
GIS allows insurers to profile potential and existing customers and perform predictive modeling to find new opportunities.