For decades, buying insurance has been a complicated, paperwork-heavy process best navigated with the help of an experienced agent. More recently, though, the rise of millennial consumers—and their buying power—is disrupting the traditional processes for insurance sales and service. Consumers’ desire to do business via digital channels is putting pressure on insurance providers to automate complex underwriting processes to speed up the sales cycle from weeks to minutes.
Likewise, the ability to manage claims and interact with insurers through digital access points is no longer a “nice-to-have” feature—it is essential for customer retention.1 In addition, the demand for fully automated claims submission is already being voiced by consumers of connected devices. 2
Digital disruption, and more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic, has revealed the need to bring a more agile business model to the highly regulated insurance industry. Many carriers have been turning to insurance business process outsourcers to provide state-of-the-art technologies like cloud systems and AI-driven engagement tools to deliver personalized service, as well as the ability to quickly scale teams of on-site and work-from-home licensed agents to handle surges in customer inquiries and claims.
The highly volatile, complex health care environment will require health insurance companies to pivot with changes in the economy, emerging technologies, increased competition and customers’ real-time needs. Carriers are partnering with health insurance BPO call centers to gain flexibility and to provide consumers with innovative digital capabilities along with quick access to caring, competent and knowledgeable agents.
Similarly, the life insurance sector has been expanding to fill a broader role for its younger millennial customers, who have shown little interest in traditional long-term savings products. Instead, companies are partnering with life insurance BPOs to deliver the latest AI and analytics capabilities to help tailor offerings aimed at younger consumers’ life events, and to deliver a more engaging experience that is personalized, seamless and digital.
In the coming years, industry analysts estimate that more insurance companies will adopt an ecosystem approach by partnering with other organizations and insurance business process outsourcing providers to deliver automation, efficiencies and profits. For instance, insurance telesales BPOs leverage cutting-edge technology and analytics to personalize the sales experience. Licensed agents can access robust CRM platforms, big data and market intelligence to identify customers’ needs at different life stages and offer customized product and services that help to not only acquire and retain customers, but to increase their lifetime value.
The insurance industry faces multiple challenges acquiring and retaining the growing base of millennial consumers whose sales and service expectations have been shaped by digitally savvy service providers. Key customer service challenges include:
CustomerServ provides extensive experience in call center outsourcing for the insurance industry solving the above challenges and more. Our vendors understand the nomenclature of the policyholder lifecycle and have built outsourcing solutions for inbound insurance sales, outbound insurance sales, live chat, email, social and back office processing for new policyholder acquisition and servicing to administration, claims and policyholder retention.
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1 A survey by Accenture found that 61% of consumers preferred to use digital channels to check the status of their claims. Further, 53% said that, if they were not able to use digital channels to interact with their insurer, they would not recommend that insurer, and 44% said they would switch insurers if they lacked digital capabilities.
2 71% of the study participants expressed an interest in having connected devices in the car or home submit claims automatically, for instance, after an accident or when there is property damage.
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