The goal of this study is to develop a tool to aid insurance company adjusters in their decision making and to ensure that they are better equipped to fight fraud.

Information problems have a large role to play in insurance markets and the regulations governing these markets were in part designed to take such problems into account. Classification variables are usually the tools used to reduce adverse selection, whereas bonus-malus (or merit-rating) schemes...

Le but de cette etude etait de developper un outil d'aide a la decision permettant aux enqueteurs des compagnies d'assurance d'etre mieux equipes pour combattre la fraude a l'assurance

This paper tests the efficiency associated with the role of memory in long-term contracting. Bonus-malus schemes in automobile insurance are examples of contracts that use memory. During the eighties different contributors (Lambert, 1983, Rogerson, 1985, Boyer, and Dionne, 1989) showed how...