Tractable AI motor repair and damage assessment (PZU)
by PZU (Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń) · Primary insurer
Market unit: PL
Polish insurer PZU uses Tractable's computer vision AI in motor claims. The system reviews body-shop repair claims across Poland in real time, flagging anomalies for PZU's experts or confirming that repairs meet PZU standards; before, only about 20% of body-shop claims were reviewed in detail. By November 2020 it had processed more than 150,000 claims worth PLN 1.3bn, about one third of PZU's roughly 500,000 annual motor claims (Coverager). In March 2022 PZU, which started working with Tractable in 2017, announced it would extend Tractable's AI Estimating to first notice of loss, so customers can submit smartphone photos and accept a cash settlement within minutes; by then several hundred thousand claims had been processed (vendor-reported). Go-live of the customer self-service is not confirmed.
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- Claims management
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- Motor vehicle insurance
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- PL
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