Group Insurance Underwriting
Individual and group insurance policies both require underwriting to determine whether the proposed or group presents an acceptable degree of risk for the insurer. However, individual life and health insurance underwriting requires that the proposed individual insured meet the insurer’s underwriting requirements. By contrast, group insurance underwriting generally focuses on the characteristics of the group and, with the exception of very small groups, usually does not require each proposed group insured to provide individual evidence of insurability. Each insurance company establishes its own underwriting guidelines that define the types of groups it will insure.