Verisk Launches CourtSide

October 3, 2019 / 2 min read

Jersey City, N.J., October 3, 2019 — Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, announced today the launch of CourtSide™, a legal analytics solution that aggregates and scores thousands of insurance-related court decisions by topic to help insurers respond quickly and cost-effectively to case law trends.

Case law changes can have a profound impact across the insurance value chain. They can affect everything from the types of exposures carriers are willing to insure to their reserve allocation strategies. In some cases, court decisions can influence whether an insurer chooses to write a particular class of business in a specific jurisdiction.

But monitoring, analyzing, and incorporating case law trends into strategic decision making can be costly and time-consuming. CourtSide categorizes legal decisions by several criteria, including topic, business classification, and correlation between terms appearing in select case law and policy language. It then applies a scoring model to help users gauge the potential impact of court decisions on their insureds’ businesses. CourtSide features a user-friendly dashboard, data extraction capabilities that enable insurers to do their own analysis, and a legal library of approximately 10,000 cases.

Operating at the intersection of InsurTech and LegalTech, CourtSide gathers decisions from more than 200 state appellate and supreme courts, as well as federal district and circuit courts to provide ongoing updates and insight for insurers.

“Tracking and analyzing the constant flow of court decisions across the country is a critical and challenging task for many insurers,” said Ron Beiderman, vice president of commercial lines coverage products at ISO, a Verisk business. “By combining advanced automation and deep domain expertise, CourtSide delivers cutting-edge case law analytics that insurers can use to help improve underwriting, enhance market strategy, and reduce expenses.”

CourtSide is currently available for case law involving general liability lines of business. Verisk is planning to add other lines of business, including commercial and personal auto, in later releases of the solution.

About Verisk
Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) provides predictive analytics and decision-support solutions to customers in the insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services industries. More than 70 percent of the FORTUNE 100 relies on the company’s advanced technologies to manage risks, make better decisions and improve operating efficiency. The company’s analytic solutions address insurance underwriting and claims, fraud, regulatory compliance, natural resources, catastrophes, economic forecasting, geopolitical risks, as well as environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the company continues to make the world better, safer and stronger, and fosters an inclusive and diverse culture where all team members feel they belong. With more than 100 offices in nearly 35 countries, Verisk consistently earns certification by Great Place to Work. For more: Verisk.com, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

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