RPA is a concept that is catching up fast in the IT world and aims to reduce repetition and save valuable man-hours for enterprises, apart from providing self-esteem and a sense of fulfillment to the people who work. RPA focuses on automating tasks that are mundane and repetitive and feel monotonous from an employee’s point of view. The areas and the number of industries covered or rather getting benefited by RPA is only traveling north as players discover the immense possibilities that automation can offer.

Among the common benefits are saving time, making processes more robust, better customer experience, avoiding unwanted repetition, and much more. RPA across different verticals is delivering results that enhance productivity and quality of output. Every industry has certain time-consuming processes that lead to errors and slowness, apart from creating bad customer feedback. It is in this context that RPA could step in to set things right.

RPA in the Insurance Industry is gaining popularity as more players have started deploying it to improve performance on many parameters. A McKinsey report says that more than 25% of the insurance processes can be automated by the year 2025. This is by taking into consideration the aspect that the insurance industry is one that doesn’t lack manual processes that are slow and consume long durations of time.

RPA for Insurance has specific advantages for possibly the most crucial aspect of them all-Claims Processing. This process can be considered the benchmark for an insurance company in terms of its engagement with customers, its commitment to promises, and the ease, speed, and convenience with which it finally disburses the claim amount to beneficiaries.

RPA in Claims Processing is indeed a blessing and is often a unification of different types of work that involves simple to complex ones. It is also a reflection of trust, transparency, and efficiency of the company or the insurer, where multiple layers of various jobs are carried out. It is a conglomeration of manual to managerial tasks involving different sets of documents and formats, requiring validation, judgment, and final payment. Claims processing is an area that requires accuracy and speed, even though it is one that is intricate and elaborate. 
Apart from Claims processing, the other major faculties that would benefit from RPA in Insurance are,

•    Underwriting
•    Compliance and Regulatory Matters
•    Sales and Distribution
•    Policy Administration
•    Financial and Accounting process
•    Analytics of Business Processes
•    Impact of Legacy Software 
•    Administration of Policies
•    Dispute and inquiry remediation

Evident thus, is the scope and level of possibility for the application of RPA in the insurance industry. The impact would create positive outcomes for the enterprise and the customers by way of effective resolution of issues that may otherwise be delayed due to various reasons which are process-driven, technical, or human.

As enterprises or companies try out newer methods to bring about improvements in user satisfaction, RPA, without a doubt, would ensure that the benefits derived out of the adoption of an automation system would go a long way in creating loyal and satisfied customers who vouch for swiftness, transparency, and ease with which their problems and grievances are addressed. In combination with AI, it is bound to create transformational outputs