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Optimal Claims in Automobile Insurance

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  • Itzahk Venezia
  • Haim Levy

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In automobile insurance the premium rate which the insured must pay increases whenever he files a claim. Here we present the optimal claims strategy of the insured. It is shown that the insured will file a claim only if the damage exceeds some critical value which depends on his premium rate and on time. We present a method for obtaining the critical values, and investigate some of their properties. We investi-gate the effect of increasing the risk of the damages distribution on the claims policy and on the welfare of the insured (we used Rothschild and Stiglitz’s [1970], and Diamond and Stiglitz’s [1974] definitions of increased risk). Surprisingly, we show that increased risk may improve the welfare of the insured. We also explore the effect of increased current income on the optimal claims policy, and show that such an increase tends to augment the critical values. Further intuitive properties of the optimal claims policy are provided in a numerical example.

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  • Itzahk Venezia & Haim Levy, "undated". "Optimal Claims in Automobile Insurance," Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Papers 05-80, Wharton School Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:pennfi:05-80
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    1. Michael Braun & Peter S. Fader & Eric T. Bradlow & Howard Kunreuther, 2006. "Modeling the "Pseudodeductible" in Insurance Claims Decisions," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 52(8), pages 1258-1272, August.
    2. Stuart I. Greenbaum & Itzhak Venezia, 1985. "Partial Exercise Of Loan Commitments Under Adaptive Pricing," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 8(4), pages 251-263, December.

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