A method and system for externalization of rules for assessing bodily
injury general damages. An insurance company may use an expert system to
develop a knowledge base in the form of business rules to process
insurance claims. The business rules may be executed to assist an
insurance claims adjuster in assessing bodily injury general damages. The
task of creation and maintenance of the business rules, used in the
assessment of claims, may be automated by the externalization of rules.
The user may create a rules data table, which includes data necessary to
transform it to business rules, based on a rule syntax structure
specified in the template table. The transformation method orchestrates
the combining of the data from the rules data table and the rule syntax
structure specified in the template table and line text table. The new
business rule may be saved as text in an insurance database. Changing the
data stored in the rules data table and using the transformation method
may accomplish updating and/or customizing the business rules.