EvolutionIQ Improves Experience For Principal Financial Group® Disability Customers

• EvolutionIQ’s Claims Guidance delivers a better experience by measurably assisting the customer through each stage of their recovery journey
• By guiding an expert to the right claim at the right time, claim examiners are free to spend more time helping each customer on their unique recovery path

NEW YORK., August 15, 2023 – EvolutionIQ, the market-leading Claims Guidance platform for Disability, Workers’ Compensation, and Property & Casualty lines of insurance, today announced that Principal Financial Group^® has extended the use of EvolutionIQ’s Claims Guidance platform into production for all of its disability insurance lines. Principal^® is now the first carrier to extend EvolutionIQ across every segment of its group and individual disability product segments. EvolutionIQ’s machine learning understands complex bodily injury to help guide claim examiners to the right actions on claims. Principal has extended EvolutionIQ’s impact to all disability coverage phases. With claim actions happening earlier across all parts of the recovery journey, a positive ripple-effect occurs through the entire process. Data shows that EvolutionIQ enables Principal examiners to reduce unnecessary customer interactions by 64% on stable-bound claims, which are claims that will migrate to a mature status due to the longer recovery times expected. With fewer unnecessary interactions, customers are able to focus more time on recovery. Improved customer experience includes:

• More accurate referrals to clinical and vocational experts – which eliminates delays when the help of a specialist is what is most needed to help with recovery.
• Better identification of modified occupation opportunities or alternative occupations for those whose illness or injury means they will not be able to return to work in their original occupation.
• Faster benefit payments for sick or injured customers whose claims are stable or designated as long-term. These customers also benefit as the need to check-in with claims teams is significantly reduced.
• Matching senior examiners to more complex claims so that the right expertise is applied at first notice of injury.

“Principal is dedicated to providing unique, tech-driven solutions for employers that simplify the benefits experience, not just at onboarding or the claims payment experience, but as part of the entire process in between,” said Kara Hoogensen, Senior Vice President & Head of Workplace Benefits at Principal Financial Group. “Our continued collaboration with EvolutionIQ has improved the experience for our customers.”Added EvolutionIQ co-Founder and co-CEO Michael Saltzman: “We are thrilled to continue to work with Principal across their disability product lines. They are committed to all forms of innovation that advance the interests of their customers and policy holders and we’re honored to help them further their mission every day.”Principal first integrated with EvolutionIQ in 2021 with the successful pilot and production launch of EvolutionIQ’s Group Mature module. In 2022, Principal became a strategic investor in EvolutionIQ’s Series B funding round, joining existing strategic investors New York Life, Tokio Marine, Guardian and Sedgwick, and has now expanded its use to include Group Short Term Disability and Group Long-Term Disability Core modules, as well as EvolutionIQ’s Individual Disability module.

About EvolutionIQ

EvolutionIQ pioneered Claims Guidance in 2019. Its explainable AI guides insurance claims professionals to their highest potential impact claims, improving the claimant experience and delivering better claim outcomes to claimants, carriers and their customers. EvolutionIQ serves the group disability, individual disability and workers’ compensation markets worldwide. EvolutionIQ’s AI native products have been adopted by 70% of the top 15 U.S. disability carriers and a growing list of workers’ compensation carriers. The New York-based company employs 165 staff across the United States, Europe and Australia. For more information, visit evolutioniq.com and follow the company on LinkedIn.

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