Backdating

Definition


Backdating (Canadian Insurance) – The practice of recording the effective date of an insurance policy as some point in the past so that coverage appears to have started earlier than the application—or the requested change—was actually approved. Allowed only within certain legal limits (usually no more than six months and never before the date an insurability requirement such as a medical exam was completed), backdating is most commonly used in life and disability insurance to establish a lower premium that corresponds to the age of the insured at the earlier date. It requires the policy owner’s written consent and payment of all premiums from the backdated date to the present.

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