eMessaging Information on a Business Insured Period

eMessaging details on an insured period are accessed from the insured period tab of the business. The menu has options to create, view or edit eMessaging information.

In view mode it is possible to navigate between Insured periods using the navigation bar.

Message signed line: This attribute is copied from a TechAccount message. It cannot be changed by the user. It is the signed share percentage notified on the last message processed by eMessaging, and is only used for signed line validation in eMessaging.

Message order percent: This attribute is copied from a TechAccount message. It cannot be changed by the user. It is the brokers percentage notified on the last message processed by eMessaging, and is only used for signed line validation in eMessaging.

Unique Market Reference: This attribute can also been seen and edited in the EDI details within the Insured Period. It holds the broker contract reference on London Market messages, and can be used to reference the message to the insured period.

Message Processing Option: This option determines how a message should referenced to accounting classifications and sections within the insured period, and controls split bookings on the Accounting classification.

There are three choices:

• Process As Default
• Process to Specific Accounting Classification(s)
• Process According to Accounting Classification split

The first of these supports the general approach and is the method used by default. It will book the message on the default Accounting classification without requiring any specific rules to find the accounting classification. If there is no default, a referencing error will be set on the message.

The second option forces the message to link to a specific accounting classification to which the message will be booked. The accounting classification can be found from message contents (e.g Class of business, Location and Type of participation; or part of the Receiver’s reference, or Lloyds Risk Code). If the accounting classification cannot be found automatically, the required accounting classification can be selected manually.

The final option will book according to the Accounting Classification split., and the message is not referenced to any specific Accounting Classification. The user must confirm the accounting split to be used. However, it is possible to turn this rule off within the Insured period, so that subsequent messages simply use the same split as the first message.

Apply Share to Child Section: eMessaging will normally apply signed share to the main section alone. When this option is selected, messages will update share at child section level if the message (or part of the message) is linked to that child section. See also Base Company Specific Settings in the System Administration Guide.

Processing Payment Lag: When processing a periodic treaty message where no matching account is found in the Administration Conditions, the due date on the technical worksheet is set equal to the Accounting Period To Date in the message + the defined Payment Lag. The period can be expressed in Day(s), Month(s) or Year(s). If no Payment Lag is defined on the Business, the Processing Payment Lag defined in the eMessaging System Parameters will be used.

Claims Due Date Additional Days: When processing a B2B claim movement message where the modify rule ModifyClaimDueDateBookingRule is in force, the system will set the due date on the claims worksheet plus an additional number of days. The number of days is added to either ‘message as-at-date’ or ‘message creation date’, depending on your selection in the Claims Due Date Basis drop-down. The number of days can be specified per insured period, and can be expressed in Day(s), Month(s) or Year(s). If no value is specified on the insured period (or if Number of Days is 0), the system parameter value is used instead. If you do not want to add any days on this insured period, check the ‘Use zero’ box alongside.

Message indicator: When checked, indicates that this insured period expects to receive messages. A validation rule in eMessaging tests this flag.

Allow Send Outbound Messages: When checked, indicates that this insured period expects to create/send outbound messages.

Related Messages: When this button is pressed the system will open a new window which shows all messages linked to this Insured Period. All message types are shown. Double click on a message or select Properties from the pop-up menu to open the Properties of the selected message.

Payment Lag: When checked, indicates that a payment lag should always be added to the Account Period End Date/Message Creation Date (dependent on the selection in field ‘Payment lag Basis’). This flag is checked when creating a Technical Worksheet from a TechAccount Message linked to a proportional treaty.

Payment Lag Basis: This option determines how to set the due date on the Worksheet when the business type is proportional treaty and the Message is referenced to an account. There are two choices;

• Account period end date
• Message creation date

When the flag ‘Payment lag’ is selected and a number of days, months or years is entered in the field Processing Payment Lag, the system will set the due date according to the selected Payment Lag Basis added by the number of days from the field Processing Payment Lag.

Rejected Message Functions: Sometimes it is necessary to reject certain types of message received for an insured period - for example, reinstatement premiums. This can be achieved by adding the message function to the rejection list, and by assigning the rule RejectInsuredPeriodMessageFunction to the Insured Period. Right click, and select ‘Edit Message function list’ to open a selection window.

Selection criteria: The reference data type to be included. Always ‘eMessaging Message Flow’ in this version.

Selected items: The selected items from the reference data table.

Local Ruleset name: The name of local ruleset, if one has been created. Will be empty if the default ruleset is in use. The name cannot be changed here, but the adjacent menu button allows you to create, view, edit or delete a local rulseset. Editing allows you to change the name.

Parent Ruleset name: The name of the parent ruleset from which the local ruleset was created, or the default ruleset if there is no local ruleset.

Use Parent rules: Indicates than the parent ruleset settings will be used.

eMessaging Information at section level #

eMessaging details are stored in two places within a section. One is eMessaging information, which can only be opened from the business structure tab context menu if the child section is highlighted.

The other is section properties.

This window can be opened from the context menu on the business structure tab, but unlike the eMessaging Info window, it is not necessary to highlight the required section first. The left hand side contains standard SICS attributes, and is covered in chapter 5.4.4 View section. The right hand side contains eMessaging section references. These are used by the section referencing rule and section mapping orders to assist in linking the message to a specific section. On selecting create or edit from the context menu, the Create eMessaging Reference window will be opened.

Reference value: The reference value assigned to this section and reference type. Must be unique within reference type, and may not be allocated to another other section on this insured period. The value may be duplicated if the reference type is different.

Reference type: The type of reference to be assigned - values come from a reference data table. Typical reference types include Broker Reference, High Level Reference and Lloyd’s Risk code. More than one reference of each type may be assigned to a section, but the values of each instance must be different.

Outbound: Used when creating outbound messages - when true, this reference will be used in preference to other instances of a reference type. In absence of an outbound indicator, the first instance of a reference type will be used instead. Only one instance of each reference on a section may be defined as outbound default.

Menu Options #

The menu options on insured period Messaging details are all concerned with managing the ruleset used for the Insured Period. You do not have to create a ruleset for each Insured period - in the absence of a specific ruleset, the system will use the ruleset for the Type of business and Main class of business or the Type of business alone if no Main Class of business version exists.

Create Ruleset #

If you choose to create a specific ruleset for an insured period, you can choose from the list of available Rulesets. When you have made you selection, you will be shown the edit eMessaging Rule Set window. See Edit Ruleset below.

View Ruleset #

This option is only available if a specific ruleset for the Insured Period is already created. It shows the Insured Period level rules that will be applied to the message.

Selecting a rule from the list will show the rule settings in the lower frame.

View Parent Ruleset: Click on this button to see the parent template from which the current rules for this insured period were copied.

Edit Ruleset #

This option is only available if a specific ruleset for the insured period is already created. It allows you to change the insured period level rules applied to the message.

Note! Changes made here will only apply to the specific ruleset for this insured period.

Ruleset Name: You can change the default ruleset name to any name you like.

Use default name: Clicking this button will reset the ruleset name back to the default - for the Insured Period ruleset, this is the business id and period dates.

View Parent Ruleset: Click on this button to see the parent template from which the current rules for this insured period were copied.

Assigned Rules: The list of rules in force for this ruleset. Note: a rule may be in force, but switched off)

Available Rules: The list of rules available for this ruleset, but not in force

Add Rule: Moves a rule from the available list to the assigned list - it makes a rule ‘in force’.

Remove Rule: Moves a rule from the assigned list to the available list - it makes a rule no longer ‘in force’.

Move rule up: Swaps the selected rule with one above, so the selected rule is executed before the other.

Move rule down: Swaps the selected rule with the one below, so the selected rule is executed after the other.

Apply default order: Restores the order of rules back to the factory settings

Rule Properties: The rule properties can be altered: For full details of rule settings, see the System Administration guide.

Accounting Validation Rules: For details on these rules, please see the System Administration guide.

Delete Ruleset #

Choosing this option will remove the specific ruleset for this insured period. The system will revert to using the ruleset for the Type of business and Main class of business or the Type of business alone if no Main Class of business version exists.. You are asked to confirm the deletion before it takes place.