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How Cyber FICO Ratings Could Benefit Insurance Underwriting

Mar 7 2018 // Nearly 30 years ago the Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO) first introduced its metric for measuring creditworthiness. Since then, the FICO Score has become a default metric used by countless market participants to facilitate...

FICO to Downplay Medical Debt in Credit Scores

Aug 14 2014 // A move by personal credit score provider FICO to leave out or discount medical debt from its scores will boost the credit record of many borrowers, while helping lenders to better assess risk.The company, formerly known as...

Anticipation

Sep 23 2013 // The fight against insurance fraud never ends. And despite efforts to combat fraud most insurers anticipate an increase in fraud.One in three U.S. and Canadian insurers do not feel adequately protected against fraud,...

Insurers Expect Increase in Personal Lines, Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Sep 13 2013 // One in three U.S. and Canadian insurers does not feel adequately protected against fraud and more than half expect personal lines and workers’ compensation fraud to increase this year.The survey by FICO, a predictive...

U.S. Insurers Say Fraud Costs on the Rise: Survey

Oct 9 2012 // Forty-five percent of insurers estimated that insurance fraud costs represent 5-10 percent of their claims volume, while 32 percent said the ratio is as high as 20 percent.This is according to a survey of U.S. insurers...

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