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Director of Claims

Review and authorize complex claim settlements

Enhances◐ 1–3 years

What You Do Today

Review settlements that exceed adjuster authority — large losses, disputed liability, coverage questions, or claims with litigation potential. Approve, modify, or redirect the handling strategy.

AI That Applies

AI-generated settlement recommendations based on comparable claims, jurisdiction-specific verdict data, and predicted outcome ranges that inform your decision.

Technologies

How It Works

The system ingests comparable claims as its primary data source. The analytics engine aggregates data across sources, applies statistical analysis to identify significant patterns and outliers, and presents the results through visualizations that highlight what needs attention. The results integrate into the practitioner's existing workflow — presenting recommendations, flags, or automated outputs alongside their normal working context.

What Changes

You review settlements with data context — what similar claims settle for, what this jurisdiction awards, what factors suggest this claim is different. Better-informed decisions.

What Stays

Settlement authority is judgment — weighing liability uncertainty, coverage defenses, litigation cost, and customer relationship in a way that models can't fully capture.

What To Do Next

This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.

1

Establish Your Baseline

Know where you are before you move

Before adopting AI tools for review and authorize complex claim settlements, understand your current state.

Map your current process: Document how review and authorize complex claim settlements works today — who does what, how long it takes, where the bottlenecks are. You need this baseline to measure improvement.
Identify the judgment points: Settlement authority is judgment — weighing liability uncertainty, coverage defenses, litigation cost, and customer relationship in a way that models can't fully capture. These are the boundaries AI won't cross.
Assess your data readiness: AI tools for this area need data to work. Check whether your organization has the historical data, integrations, and data quality to support Shift Technology tools.

Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.

2

Define Your Measures

What to track and how to calculate it

Time per cycle

How to calculate

Measure how long review and authorize complex claim settlements takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.

Why it matters

The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.

Quality of output

How to calculate

Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.

Why it matters

Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.

When to check: Check after 30 days of consistent use, then quarterly.
The commitment: Give new tools at least 30 days before judging. The first week is always awkward.
What NOT to measure: Don't measure AI adoption rate as a KPI. Adoption follows value — if the tool helps, people use it.
3

Start These Conversations

Who to talk to and what to ask

your claims director or VP Claims

What data do we already have that could improve how we handle review and authorize complex claim settlements?

They're setting the automation strategy for your unit

your SIU lead

Who on our team has the deepest experience with review and authorize complex claim settlements, and what tools are they already using?

AI fraud detection changes how investigations are triggered and prioritized

a claims adjuster with 15+ years experience

If we brought in AI tools for review and authorize complex claim settlements, what would we measure before and after to know it actually helped?

Their judgment sets the benchmark that AI tools are measured against

4

Check Your Prerequisites

Confirm readiness before you invest

Check items as you confirm them.