addClaim

Description
This transaction adds a claim to an existing contract. In the insurance industry, a claim is a request for benefit payments. Claims are related to one or more contracts and can involve one or more parties.
Web Services
Operation name: addClaim
Service name: FinancialServices
Example
Add a claim to an automobile insurance policy for a collision loss.

Add a claim to an automobile insurance policy with a claim party role of "claimant", and add a party with a claim party role of "witness" .

Usage information
A claim can be associated with one or more contracts. A contract can be associated with one or more claims.

When used as a coarse-grained transaction, new parties can be added to the database.

The claim type and claim status type codes are user-definable through code tables.

This transaction can be used as a coarse-grained transaction to add a claim, claim contract, and claim party role to an existing contract. When using this transaction as a coarse-grained transaction, the following simple transactions may also apply:

Preconditions
A Contract must exist
Mandatory input
  • ContractId
  • AdminReferenceNumber
  • ClaimNumber
  • ClaimType
Inquiry levels
Not applicable
Filter values
Not applicable
Transaction behavior
If the start date is not supplied, the current system date is used by default.
Request message
<TCRMTxType> addClaim

<TCRMTxObject> TCRMClaimBObj

<TCRMObject> TCRMClaimBObj

with a mandatory business object:

Response objects
TCRMClaimBObj

with a mandatory business object:

Special note
Not applicable