GenAI and Agentic AI Are Reshaping Insurance Operations
12/11/2025 - Leading carriers are moving beyond pilots to production-scale AI across underwriting, claims, customer experience, fraud detection and risk management, according to the latest ISG Provider Lens® report on Insurance GenAI and Agentic AI Services. The payoff: faster cycle times, sharper pricing, tighter compliance and higher customer satisfaction.
The core shift is simple: manual, document-heavy workflows are giving way to AI-driven intake, analysis and decision support. Incumbents are using this to protect margins and win retention while new entrants leverage automation to compete on speed.
Where GenAI Delivers Value Now
Underwriting - Teams are using generative models to extract structured and unstructured data from emails, PDFs and images, then auto-populate systems. Trained on historical outcomes, models flag gaps, suggest preliminary assessments and tighten risk selection. Turnaround times shrink as financials, inspections and external signals roll into a single view.
Claims - Natural language models interpret first notices, extract key facts and kick off workflows. Image models assess damage from photos to estimate costs. NLP also spots inconsistencies that point to fraud. The result: cycle times drop from weeks to days while documentation and compliance improve.
Customer experience - Conversational systems handle routine inquiries with context, prep renewals, generate personalized explanations and complete follow-ups. Content aligns to each customer's intent and comprehension level, lifting engagement without adding headcount.
Agentic AI: From Tasks to End-to-End Execution
Insurers are implementing agentic systems that can pursue defined objectives, adapt to changing conditions and coordinate across tools without constant oversight. For specific risk classes, agents can take submissions through to quote. For straightforward losses, they can manage the entire claim lifecycle-verify coverage, request docs, and approve settlements within authority limits.
Expect a clear split over the next three to five years: AI agents run routine operations, while teams focus on complex risks, key accounts and new product innovation. Human judgment, empathy and relationship management remain central-AI handles the repetitive load.
Data, Controls and Trust
GenAI only works at scale with strong data foundations. Carriers are investing in data modernization to clean, standardize and govern intake sources. Just as important: governance frameworks for bias testing, explainability, lineage and privacy controls to earn internal and regulatory trust.
If you need a primer on responsible AI practices, see the NAIC guidance on AI. For market context on provider capabilities, review ISG's coverage of Insurance GenAI and Agentic AI services here.
Provider Landscape Highlights (ISG 2025)
ISG evaluated 28 providers across two quadrants: GenAI - Development and Deployment Services, and Agentic AI - Development and Deployment Services.
- Leaders in both quadrants: Capgemini, Cognizant, EXL, Genpact, HCLTech, Infosys, Kyndryl, NTT DATA, Persistent Systems, TCS, WNS.
- Leader in one quadrant: LTIMindtree.
- Rising Stars: Tech Mahindra (both quadrants); LTIMindtree and Tiger Analytics (one quadrant each).
- CX Star Performer (global, 2025): Sutherland, based on ISG's Voice of the Customer scores.
Practical Next Steps for Carriers
- Start with high-volume wins: FNOL intake, document ingestion for underwriting and claims, straight-through processing for low-severity lines, and CX chat/voice for policy and billing questions.
- Build an "AI bill of materials" for every use case: data sources, model types, prompts, guardrails, decision thresholds, fallbacks, audit requirements.
- Stand up human-in-the-loop controls: route edge cases to experts, log overrides, and feed corrections back into training loops.
- Measure what matters: quote time, bind ratio, claim cycle time, loss adjustment expense, leakage, NPS, and compliance exceptions.
- Operationalize governance: bias testing before deploy, explainability for adverse actions, PII minimization, retention policies and red-teaming.
- Choose the right operating model: centralized AI platform, federated business pods, clear RACI for model updates and incident response.
- Pilot agents in narrow lanes: defined products, authority limits and clear handoffs; expand only after hitting service-level targets.
Why This Matters
AI adoption is no longer an experiment-it's a pricing, speed and experience advantage. The carriers that modernize data, set real guardrails and scale agentic workflows will compress costs while improving service. Those who delay will feel it in loss ratios, retention and expense.
Upskill Your Team
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