Preparing for your insurance application
What you need to know for a faster, smoother experience
Some insurance applications ask more questions than others. It's better to be over-prepared. Even if the information isn't required initially, you may be asked during a paramedical exam (which many of our clients require).
Information to have available:
Personally-owned insurance
Information below is required from each person being insured under a policy, unless otherwise stated
Your driver’s licence
Your Social Insurance Number
(If you are a US resident or citizen) Your Taxpayer Identification Number
Your employer’s address and postal code
(For life insurance) Who you want as your:
Primary beneficiaries
Contingent beneficiaries (receive the death benefit if no primary beneficiaries are living)
Trustee for any primary or contingent beneficiaries currently under age 18
Your financial information (for each person to be insured and for the policyowner if the policy is to be owned by another party):
Total assets (e.g. your principal residence, other properties, car, savings and investments)
Total liabilities (e.g. mortgage, any other loans)
Net worth = total assets - total liabilities
Annual earned income (e.g. from employment)
Annual unearned income (e.g. from investments)
Details of any life, critical illness, disability or long-term care insurance you currently have, or were declined for, decided to cancel, or had policy issue postponed:
Insurer
Face amount
Year issued or submitted (if issue is still pending)
If an application was denied or policy cancelled or postponed, why?
The date (if applicable, as near as you can remember, month and year are fine) of the last time you used marijuana, tobacco, hash, nicotine products or nicotine substitutes
Details (if applicable) of any trips you’ve taken outside North America in the past 12 months or plan to take in the next 12 months (length of time away and purpose of trips, dates of departure and return if possible)
Details (if applicable, dates and types of violation) of any moving violations (e.g. speeding, running a stop sign or red light) in the last 3 years, and any licence suspensions, DUIs or reckless driving convictions in the past 10 years.
Name of your family doctor and any specialists you’ve consulted and, for each:
Their practice’s address
Their phone number
Date of last consultation, reason for consultation, treatment or medication prescribed, and results
Your height, weight, and amount (if any) of weight change in the last year and why
Details of any medical conditions you currently have, what medications you take for them, dates of diagnoses
Details of any hospitalizations in the past 5 yrs
Family health history of parents brothers and sisters (disease or disorder, if any, any of them suffered from, age at onset, age if living or age at death and cause of death)
A blank cheque for pre-authorized debits (if paying monthly)
Corporately-owned insurance
Same as the personal requirements, plus:
Corporation’s legal name (and trade name, if applicable), business number, and address
The corporation’s financial information:
Total assets (e.g. equipment, retained earnings)
Total liabilities (e.g. mortgage, any other loans)
Net worth = total assets - total liabilities
Annual earned income (e.g. from active business)
Annual unearned income (e.g. passive investment income)
Fair market value of business
Net profit after taxes for the last two years
Your percentage ownership of the business
Details of business insurance on other members of business and how amount of insurance was determined
For cash value life insurance:
Copy of articles of incorporation
Copy of organization chart, if available
Names and addresses of all persons or entities who own 25% or more of the shares of the corporation