HSBC Life updates medical screening process in underwriting

In partnership with Square Health

Hemma Visavadia
clock • 2 min read

HSBC Life (UK) has announced a digital underwriting update which will enable medical screening requests to be sent and returned automatically via Square Health.

Request processed through Square Health will only be available on UnderwriteMe's Protection Platform. After the screening is completed, the results will then be returned to HSBC Life's digital underwriting rules engine provided by UnderwriteMe, for an "instant" decision process. The update will be available via the HSBC Life extranet journey for IFA users who use IRESS, iPipeline and Synaptic Webline. The changes will aim to increase the speed of underwriting decisions, reduce customer waiting times and the amount of time advisers spend waiting for results. There is also a real...

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