Merit Rating for Doctor Professional Liability Insurance

Finger, Robert J.

Non-Refereed Paper/Article
Casualty Actuarial Society Forum Casualty Actuarial Society - Arlington, Virginia
1993: Special Edition
495-573
http://www.casact.org/pubs/forum/93seforum/93sp495.pdf

Abstract

Merit rating is the use of the insured's actual claim experience to predict future claim experience. This paper discusses merit rating for professional liability insurance for both individual doctors and group practices. The paper presents several different theoretical formulations for merit rating. Credibilities are stated in terms of the parameters of the risk process. The paper discusses several methods of estimating the key parameters, along with sample data. Finally, the paper discusses several practical considerations in the design of a merit rating formula. Medical Malpractice, Credibility, Merit Rating

Taxonomy Classifications

• Actuarial Applications and Methodologies > Ratemaking > Classification Plans
• Actuarial Applications and Methodologies > Ratemaking > Experience Rating
• Financial and Statistical Methods > Loss Distributions > Frequency
• Business Areas > Professional Liability > Medical Malpractice -Occurence
• Financial and Statistical Methods > Statistical Models and Methods > Regression
• Financial and Statistical Methods > Credibility

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