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19 Jul, 2018, 12:19 GMT

New Home Insurance Prefill Solution Eases the Application Process and Helps Alleviate Customer Pain

Hood Group is first to adopt solution

LONDON, July 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move to speed the home insurance application process, cut dropout rates and improve rating inputs for quotes, LexisNexis Risk Solutions has launched its first home insurance application prefill solution - LexisNexis Home Prefill.

Once the customer has validated their personal data including their address, key elements of property information will be dropped into the insurance application, such as details on when the property was built, or the number of bedrooms and bathrooms. This will help cut the number of home insurance application questions - in many cases, the applicant may only be required to validate the information is correct.

The Hood Group will become one of the first companies in the insurance market to use the new data solution.

It is not uncommon for householders to complete up to 70 questions when applying for building and contents insurance. In research¹, 16% of consumers expressed frustration at having to enter details that they believe the insurance provider should already hold. A further 16% said they struggle to accurately answer certain questions in the application, such as the year the property was built or understanding what constitutes a bathroom versus a downstairs lavatory. The launch of Home Prefill will help tackle some of these challenges. Not surprisingly, 85% of consumers felt that reducing the number of questions would make the insurance application experience easier.

Jay Borkakoti, Director, Home Insurance, UK and Ireland, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, said, "LexisNexis Home Prefill both helps simplify the application process for customers whilst ensuring the property information submitted is accurate - helping insurance providers deliver accurate first-time quotes as these will be based on reliable, verified information. It also frees them from the time currently spent on data entry and follow-up calls to validate information, whilst at the same time providing a better customer experience and reduced acquisition costs."

Simon Hood, CEO at Hood Group, added, "Hood Group and LexisNexis Risk Solutions are leading the way in improving the home insurance process for both the customer's benefit and for the sector in terms of improved efficiencies. It is exciting and a great demonstration of prefilling key pieces of data at that first point of contact, which may have a significant impact on the entire customer journey."

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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions

LexisNexis Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data and advanced analytics to provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. We provide data and technology solutions for a wide range of industries including insurance, financial services, healthcare and government. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX Group (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. RELX is a FTSE 100 company and is based in London. For more information, please visit www.risk.lexisnexis.com, and www.relx.com.

About Hood Group

Established in 1983, the award-winning Hood Group is an insurance provider that specialises in the use of technology and data to help drive companies, large consumer brands, high street retailers and start-up businesses forward and transform their insurance offerings. Hood Group's focus is on delivering innovative business models to engage more deeply with customers. They are winners of the Your Money Travel Insurance Award and the Investors in People award.

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For further media information, please contact Alison Reeson, Parm Heer, or Clare Watson, at HSL on 0208 9779132 or at lnrs@harrisonsadler.com

Regina Haas
Global Director, Media and Analyst Relations
Insurance and Coplogic Solutions
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
+1.678.694.3569 Direct
+1.678.896.1463 Mobile
regina.haas@lexisnexisrisk.com

For further media information regarding Hood Group, please contact Simone Spinks at spinksprandcomms@gmail.com.

¹ * LexisNexis Risk Solutions carried out an anonymous survey, the UK Home Insurance Consumer Study, 25 January–1 February 2017. The sample was 1,500 residential homeowners in the UK, who owned their current residence for two years or more, home insurance covering their primary residence, equally or solely responsible for home insurance decisions.

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