Effectively leveraging the data within police reports can be challenging

Police report formats vary from state to state, and not all data values are intuitive.

This is what makes normalization so critical.

Manually reviewing police report data can be a drain on time and resources

Adjusters often have to sift through accident reports to find crucial details, performing a manual, time-consuming review of each report.

For instance, when ejections occur, that information is included in each police report. However, it will be represented in different ways.

For example:

One form may have a check box for ejection while another may have a yes/no value.
The ejection data field may have different names and occur in a different location in each report.

Normalization allows carriers to use police report data more quickly and efficiently

By normalizing police record data, we create common values across the thousands of agencies that collect them so carriers can more easily act on the insights. Carriers can route claims to the right adjusters when BI indicators are present to help reduce claim severity.

Data science teams can also capitalize on these data points — using them to fuel internal models, which can help make the claims process smarter, faster and more accurate.

Normalizing police report data is critical to understanding and acting on the available insights

Quick access to a set of clear, actionable data points empowers adjusters to make better decisions more efficiently.

Vehicle ejection normalized

Clearer insight into police reports can help adjusters make more accurate decisions.

We have normalized 503 ejection values into 9 actionable data points. See 5 of 9 below.

Injury indicators normalized

Quickly assessing injury indicators can help adjusters efficiently navigate more complex claims.

We have normalized 1,038 injury values into 12 actionable data points. See 6 of 12 below.