Blog: Analytics has a critical role to play in major and complex loss
It is not just low-value claims that can benefit from technology – data analytics has an important role to play in major and complex loss, argues Neil Baldwin, McLarens executive director.
For some time now the loss adjusting industry has been shifting to an ever more digital model. Not only are loss adjusting businesses able to work effectively as a virtual office, on a global scale
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