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Third-Party Litigation Funding (TPLF) Risk Scoring Engine for Casualty ILS

Third-party litigation funding in jurisdictions like North Carolina is driving legal inflation and impacting casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS). Build an XGBoost risk modeling pipeline combined with natural language court filing parsers to quantify TPLF severity multipliers on casualty claims portfolios.

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What you are building

Build an ML risk engine combining XGBoost and legal NLP to predict Third-Party Litigation Funding risk in casualty portfolios.

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates claim severity multiplier forecasting accuracy and RMSE on test casualty claim filings.

Datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

How submissions are scored

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

arithmetic_check

Verifies final settlement equals initial reserve times multiplier

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

rmse_multiplier

Root Mean Squared Error of multiplier prediction • target: 0.15 • range: 0-1

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

  • Extract litigation features (funding state, law firm involvement, venue history) from docket filings

  • Train an XGBoost regressor model predicting claim tail severity extension

  • Evaluate casualty ILS portfolio loss reserve impact under varying TPLF penetration rates

  • Validate model performance against historical loss development triangles

Resources

Dataset notes

Casualty claims dataset with jurisdictional court filing metadata and litigation funding tags.

Challenge setup

Evaluates claim severity multiplier forecasting accuracy and RMSE on test casualty claim filings.

Challenge input

JSON containing case venue, injury severity score, and TPLF presence boolean.

XGBoost

Gradient boosted decision trees for tabular risk modeling

Evaluated output

JSON with predicted_severity_multiplier and estimated_final_settlement.

Evaluation checks
  • Verifies final settlement equals initial reserve times multiplier
  • Root Mean Squared Error of multiplier prediction • target: 0.15 • range: 0-1
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: CasualtyLitigationBench
  • Rmse Multiplier target: 0.15
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

Shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Yi-34B · Required
  • Google · Optional
  • BentoML · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • arithmetic_check · Weight 1
  • rmse_multiplier · Weight 1

Metrics

  • rmse_multiplier · Target 0.15

Benchmarks

  • CasualtyLitigationBench
  • general

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON containing case venue, injury severity score, and TPLF presence boolean.

    Output: JSON with predicted_severity_multiplier and estimated_final_settlement.

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • XGBoost · Machine Learning Framework

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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