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As always, we encourage you to contact us should you feel the need to discuss your pending business in more detail. Please see the Application Time Line below for an overview of the underwriting process. Step 1Receive application from broker – review application and inform broker of any missing or additional information needed. Step 2Order medical requirements (paramed exam, blood, urine, etc.). Step 3Submit application to carrier; Carrier may order APS, Phone History Interview and/or TeleApp. Step 4Follow-up as necessary and status broker at least once per week via email or more if necessary. Step 5Inform broker of offer; finalize policy details. Step 6Receive policy from carrier, process and send to broker. Step 7Await delivery requirements from broker and submit to carrier. Overall the underwriting process can take approximately six weeks. If an APS (Attending Physician Statement) is ordered this could add an additional 2-4 weeks to the process. Please keep in mind, sometimes after review of initial APS, additional APS’s are ordered and this can add an additional 2-4 weeks. |

Upon submission of a new piece of business, each individual producer will receive weekly email updates from our New Business Coordinator. The status emails will continue throughout the underwriting process until the policy is issued and delivered to the client.