Insurance Reference Services Limited (IRS)
Insurance Reference Services Limited (IRS) is a member-based organisation supporting Australian general insurance company members with understanding policy holder claims history, for the purpose of supporting claims management, claims investigation, loss assessment, fraud detection and risk underwriting.
IRS’s sole purpose is to manage, for the benefit of its Australian insurance company members, the IRS claims database, which comprises motor, home and travel claims information in Australia. The IRS claims database holds 22 million de-duplicated claims in a secure environment with some 600,000 claims updates received monthly from IRS members.
In particular the claims database highlights:
Previously denied, withdrawn, or cancelled claims
Multiple or unusual claim patterns
This knowledge enables insurers to efficiently assign investigation resources, resulting in targeted and faster investigative processes and claims handling, while playing a pivotal role in identifying insurance claims fraud and validating underwriting risk.