Insurance

    Coding claims, renewal and NPS comments in insurance

    The score a policyholder gives after a claim depends on very different things than the score at purchase. Survey Coder Pro codes each moment with its own codebook and the same criteria every wave.

    What makes open-ends hard in insurance

    Customers deal with their insurer at only a few moments, and each one weighs differently on their score.

    A claims comment mixes the repair shop, the adjuster, the agent and the insurer: you need to know who each complaint is about.

    Non-renewal reasons (price, a bad claims experience, another broker's offer) need to be separated to decide what to do.

    Sales, claims and renewal each have their own vocabulary, and one codebook for everything ends up too generic.

    Auto, health, home and life are measured with similar surveys but have very different problems.

    How an insurance open-end works in Survey Coder Pro

    You generate a codebook per moment (sales, claims, renewal) or load the one the insurer already uses. The AI codes each comment with all the codes that apply and your team reviews only the doubtful answers.

    Nets that separate the parties in a claim: insurer, repair shop or provider, adjuster, agent or broker.

    The same codebook is reused wave after wave, so trends by moment are comparable.

    Codes as columns per respondent to cross with line of business, sales channel or claim type.

    With the .sav, a tabulation book with line of business or channel in the banner and significance testing.

    Insurance Use Cases

    Applications for insurance companies

    Claims Experience

    Analyze claims process feedback identifying friction points.

    Policy Renewal

    Renewal and non-renewal reasons with decision drivers.

    Policy Sales

    Contracting experience and coverage understanding.

    NPS by Product

    Differentiated analysis: auto, life, health, home, commercial.

    Digital Channels

    App, web portal and digital self-service feedback.

    Agent Network

    Broker and insurance agent evaluation.

    Illustrative example

    Example: the score after an auto claim

    Transactional survey of auto policyholders who closed a claim in the last month. Here is part of the dataset after coding.

    Open-ended question

    Thinking about your claim, why did you give us that score?

    Responses and assigned codes

    ResponseCodes
    “The body shop took three weeks longer than they told me and nobody kept me updated.”
    Repair shop delayNo follow-up
    “The adjuster came quickly and was very clear, I appreciated that.”
    Fast adjuster (positive)Clear explanation (positive)
    “I had to pay a deductible I didn't know existed.”
    Unexpected deductibleDidn't understand coverage
    “I had to email the same documents three times.”
    Repeated paperwork
    “The tow truck took almost two hours to reach me on the highway.”
    Roadside assistance delay
    “My agent was on top of everything, I don't know what I would have done without him.”
    Agent support (positive)
    “They gave me a rental car but only for five days and the repair took fifteen.”
    Insufficient rental carRepair shop delay

    Codebook excerpt

    Net / code% of respondents who answered
    NET Timing44%
    Repair shop delay28%
    Roadside assistance delay10%
    No follow-up15%
    NET Coverage and payment27%
    Unexpected deductible16%
    Didn't understand coverage12%
    Insufficient rental car6%
    NET Paperwork13%
    Repeated paperwork13%
    NET Positives31%
    Fast adjuster (positive)12%
    Agent support (positive)14%
    Clear explanation (positive)9%

    Multi-code question: one response can carry several codes, so percentages add up to more than 100%. A net counts each respondent once, even if they have several codes from that group.

    Example built for this page: this is not client data and the percentages are illustrative.

    For market research agencies

    • NPS programs by moment (sales, claims, renewal), each with its own codebook inherited wave after wave.
    • You deliver the .sav or Excel file to the insurer with codes as columns per respondent.
    • A tabulation book with line of business, channel or claim type in the banner, with significance testing.
    • Your coding team reviews only the doubtful answers and makes the call on each one.

    For CX and insights teams at insurers

    • Claims NPS comments get coded every month without an analyst reading them one by one.
    • Same codebook month after month, so you can see whether repair shop complaints drop after changing your network.
    • Export to Excel or .sav and cross it in your BI tool with line of business, channel or provider.
    • Separate what belongs to the repair shop, roadside assistance or the agent, and route it to the right team.

    Frequently asked questions

    Should sales, claims and renewal share one codebook?

    Usually not. Each moment has different reasons, so you work with one codebook per moment. Shared nets (timing, clarity, service) can use the same names to compare across moments.

    How do you know whether a complaint is about the repair shop or the insurer?

    With separate codes per party in the codebook. If the comment doesn't make it clear who it is about, the AI flags it as doubtful for your team to review.

    Does it work for non-renewal reasons?

    Yes. It is an open-end like any other: you generate or load the codebook (price, claims experience, competitor offer, change in needs) and reuse it every wave.

    Does it work for auto, health, home and life at once?

    Yes. The usual setup is line of business in the tabulation banner and, if the reasons are very different, specific codes per line inside the codebook.

    Try the workflow on one of your own open-ended questions

    Upload a dataset with an open-ended question and see the codebook the AI proposes. The free trial includes 250 responses.