New Zealand, 16 July 2024 – New Zealand’s largest locally owned life insurer, Fidelity Life, has announced a new collaboration with global InsureTech provider UnderwriteMe to leverage technology, data, and analytics for their new and improved online application tool, E-App.

Launched to financial advisers in June, the upgraded E-App is already driving much-needed efficiency, enhancing the user experience and streamlining the underwriting process for Fidelity Life customers.

The new E-App is anticipated to markedly improve application processing times as compared to a paper application experience. Key to this efficiency gain has been Fidelity Life’s commitment to driving a smooth digital journey, eliminating paper forms and providing an intuitive customer-friendly design.

Fidelity Life has leveraged UnderwriteMe’s market-leading automation technology, Decision Platform, to streamline the underwriting process with simplified questionnaires and customer journeys, provide instant feedback on underwriting assessments and immediate acceptance for some customers to ensure they get covered faster. A continuous improvement process will ensure the E-App user experience constantly evolves in line with both customers’ and financial advisers’ expectations.

Fidelity Life’s Chief Insurance Officer, Niall McConville says, “Fidelity Life is here for the good of New Zealand by working to make financial advice and insurance protection more accessible. Our new E-App is already making a difference by unlocking benefits for our customers, advisers, and for our business. The implementation of a highly flexible rules engine in collaboration with UnderwriteMe is a key foundation of our strategy to make life insurance easier and more accessible for New Zealanders. We look forward to continuing to create and innovate with UnderwriteMe.”

In addition to Fidelity Life, UnderwriteMe has collaborated with several insurance providers in the Australasian market to launch flexible, scalable solutions that support insurers with quick underwriting decision-making, as well as robust data and analytics to serve customers better and get them protected more quickly. As an InsureTech business, UnderwriteMe continues to lead technological advances in the protection and life insurance market.

Paul Hughes, Head of Asia Pacific at UnderwriteMe shared, “Within the Australian and New Zealand markets, UnderwriteMe has observed a key pain point for financial advisers around efficiency in the new business and underwriting process, and we are delighted to partner with Fidelity Life, using technology and data to innovate and to make insurance more accessible for customers.”