Accounting for Individual Over-Dispersion in a Bonus-Malus Automobile Insurance System

Meng Shengwang; Yuan Wei; G.A. Whitmore

doi:10.2143/AST.29.2.504619

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Individual automobile insurance claims are characterized by over-dispersion relative to the Poisson model. In addition, claim propensities vary among individuals in any insurance portfolio. This paper presents a model which takes account of both characteristics. The model employs the negative-binomial distribution as the distribution for individual-level claims and a Pareto distribution as the distribution for claim propensities within the portfolio. The paper shows that the resulting model is tractable and has a number of attractive properties which make it suitable for this application. The fit of the model to actual claim numbers for automobile third party liability insurance is examined and found acceptable. Bayes theorem is then applied to this model to calculate illustrative optimal premiums under the Bonus-Malus System (BMS).

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