Certified Underwriting Surveys: Digital Evidence with Legal Validity

Certified documentation for risk assessment, asset verification, and fraud prevention during the insurance underwriting process.

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The underwriting and pre-underwriting survey represents the first point of contact between the insurance company and the risk to be assumed. The surveyor inspects the asset, documents its condition, evaluates the circumstances, and collects photographic and video evidence that will serve as the reference for the entire contract duration.

This documentation must be incontestable: if the evidence collected before policy subscription lacks a certified timestamp, geolocation, and integrity guarantees, any subsequent claim opens room for disputes over pre-existing damage, the actual condition of the asset, and the accuracy of the initial assessment. TrueScreen certifies every piece of evidence collected during the survey, transforming it into legally valid certified data with guaranteed authenticity, integrity, immutability, and traceability: supporting risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency throughout the underwriting process.

Industry

Insurance, reinsurance, brokerage

Business function

Risk underwriting, Fraud prevention, Surveyor network

Key process

Pre-underwriting inspection, risk assessment, policy subscription

What gets certified

Photos, videos, technical documents, floor plans, declarations

Output

Certified documentation and reports with legal validity

Adoption mode

App / Web / API / SDK

Needs

  • Protect survey photos and videos from tampering with verifiable integrity
  • Ensure certified timestamp, GPS and surveyor identity for every evidence
  • Comply with eIDAS, Solvency II Directive and Insurance Distribution Directive
  • Reduce collection and transmission time for survey documentation
  • Build a structured, long-term accessible pre-underwriting archive
  • Standardize documentation quality across the entire surveyor network
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Solution

TrueScreen enables surveyors to certify photos, videos and documents during underwriting and pre-underwriting inspections with full legal validity.

Each piece of content is certified with a digital signature, timestamp and contextual metadata: GPS position, date and time, operator identity, ensuring authenticity, integrity and immutability in compliance with the eIDAS Regulation and international insurance standards.

The certified documentation is immediately available for risk assessment and policy file archiving, creating an opposable evidentiary base for the entire contract duration.

The pre-risk survey is a critical step in the insurance underwriting inspection process. TrueScreen allows inspectors to capture certified photos and videos of the insured asset with GPS coordinates and timestamp, creating a forensic baseline that documents the exact condition at the time of the survey. This underwriting documentation strengthens fraud prevention and reduces disputes during claims processing, giving underwriters a reliable, legally valid record of the asset’s pre-policy state that can be produced as evidence throughout the entire coverage period.

What gets certified

Photos of the asset, environments, systems, and structures

Certified photographic surveys of the asset condition, with certified timestamp and geolocation.

Inspection videos documenting general conditions and critical areas

Certified video recordings of asset conditions and critical areas during the on-site survey.

Technical documents, floor plans, compliance certificates

Technical documentation certified with digital signature and timestamp.

Declarations from the policyholder and surveyor collected on-site

Declarations certified with digital signature and immutable contextual metadata.

Expected benefits

  • Eliminate dispute risk over pre-existing asset condition with certified evidence
  • Reduce pre-underwriting survey processing time with fewer rework cycles
  • Prevent insurance fraud with a certified, comparable pre-underwriting archive
  • Demonstrable compliance with eIDAS, Solvency II and IDD requirements
  • Complete, structured, and auditable policy file from first inspection
  • Standardized documentation quality across the entire surveyor network

Partners

Technology and operational partners enabling TrueScreen adoption in underwriting processes: survey firms and surveyor networks, underwriting and portfolio management platform providers, anti-fraud and analytics solution providers, brokers and insurance intermediaries with territorial inspection networks.

Integrations

TrueScreen integrates with underwriting and portfolio management systems, surveyor platforms, DMS/ECM for document archiving, anti-fraud engines and analytics, CRM and intermediary portals via API and SDK. Certified reports are exportable in PDF and JSON formats, compatible with leading insurance industry management systems.

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FAQ: Certified Underwriting and Pre-Underwriting Surveys for the Insurance Industry

1) How does TrueScreen certification work for pre-underwriting surveys?
TrueScreen enables surveyors to capture photos, videos, and documents during asset inspections via mobile app or integrated systems. Each piece of content is automatically certified with immutable metadata: date, time, GPS position, operator identity, and cryptographic hash: along with a digital signature ensuring full evidentiary value.
2) Is TrueScreen-certified evidence admissible in insurance disputes?
Yes. The digital signature compliant with the eIDAS Regulation grants full legal validity. Pre-underwriting evidence is admissible in court proceedings, claim investigations, and anti-fraud proceedings.
3) Does TrueScreen help prevent insurance fraud during underwriting?
The certified pre-underwriting archive documents the asset condition at the time of subscription with certified timestamps and geolocation. In case of a claim, this evidence can be compared with subsequent documentation to verify whether damage was pre-existing.
4) Can TrueScreen integrate with surveyor platforms and underwriting systems?
Yes. TrueScreen integrates via API and SDK with surveyor platforms, underwriting systems, DMS/ECM, and anti-fraud engines. Certified documentation is automatically transmitted and linked to the policy file without manual steps.
5) What types of content can be certified during a pre-underwriting survey?
Photos of the asset and its systems, inspection videos, technical documents, floor plans, compliance certificates, policyholder and surveyor declarations, and screenshots of pre-existing digital documentation relevant to risk assessment can all be certified.
6) How does TrueScreen improve underwriting process efficiency?
Certification occurs in real time during the on-site survey, with no additional steps. The pre-underwriting file is complete and structured from the first inspection, eliminating rework and integration requests, and reducing turnaround time between survey and underwriting decision.

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