WTW announced a partnership with Riskonnect to pilot an innovative analytical delivery tool which connects claims and exposure data through its new WTW Risk IQ API (application programming interface). The collaboration between Riskonnect and WTW offers clients of both organizations the opportunity to better evaluate their claims data to identify, assess and quantify inefficiencies as well as reduce errors and anomalies by eliminating the labor-intensive manual processes involving in uploading complicated risk and claims data into the models. In doing so, clients can achieve real time actionable insights for their risk mitigation strategies.

The Risk IQ API will first connect risk and claims data stored in Riskonnect to WTW?s Workers? Compensation Diagnostic (WCD) Tool. Designed to assess a client?s claims handling process, the tool will evaluate the efficiency of the Workers?

Compensation program to identify ways to reduce future losses. The WCD assesses nine key metrics to assess strengths and weaknesses and projects the financial impact of different cost containment solutions. This was recently successfully undertaken with The Wendy?s Company, a global fast-food chain who had accumulated extensive data on types of injuries, severity and costs driving its workers?

comp claims. By utilizing the data through Risk IQ?s predictive modelling system, the company was able to efficiently allocate capital to risk mitigation. By facilitating a proactive evaluation of risk benefit to clients it is anticipated that the partnership between Riskonnect and WTW will strengthen and facilitate support to clients in other areas, such as property, giving clients the opportunity to develop risk strategies using other Risk IQ tools such as Property Quantified, Global Peril Diagnostic and Climate Diagnostic.