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Verisk Analytics, Inc. Description

Verisk Analytics, Inc. provides proprietary data, analytics methods, and embedded decision support solutions for detecting fraud in property and casualty (P&C) insurance, financial, and healthcare industries primarily in the United States. The company's Risk Assessment segment provides solutions to P&C insurance customers that focus on the first two decision making processes in risk analysis framework, including prediction of loss, and selection and pricing of risk. This segment's solutions include statistical agent and data services; actuarial services; industry-standard insurance programs that help P&C insurers define coverages and issue policies; and property-specific rating and underwriting information on individual properties and communities to evaluate and price personal and commercial property insurance, as well as commercial liability insurance. Its Decision Analytics segment develops predictive models to forecast scenarios, and produce standard and customized analytics that help its customers predict loss, select and price risk, detect fraud before and after a loss event, and quantify losses. This segment offers fraud-detection tools for the P&C insurance industry; benchmarking, scoring solutions, analytics, and customized services to financial services institutions; solutions to help healthcare claims payers detect fraud, abuse, and overpayment; and helps businesses and governments to anticipate and manage climate- and weather-related risks. The company sells its products and services through directly to clients primarily insurers, reinsurers, agencies of the federal government, workers' compensation insurance funds, self-insurers, third-party administrators, governmental agencies and organizations, state workers' compensation insurance funds, self-insurers, third-party administrators, state fraud bureaus, and law-enforcement agencies. Verisk Analytics, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Sector: Industrials
Industry: Business Services
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