Field

A category of insurance; for example, the health insurance field. This term can also refer to a specific region being served by an agent or insurer.

Field Force

Field Staff : (i) The sales force of an Insurance Company. (ii) The agents and supervisory personnel of insurers who operate away from the branch office/micro office/extension counter of the company.
***
MEDICAL,USA: Insurance agents who work out of an insurance company’s local or regional field offices and not at the home office.
***
The agents and supervisors working for an insurance company in local offices.

Field offices

Insurance company’s local or regional sales offices.

Field underwriter

See: agent .

Field underwriting

First step in the risk selection process in which an insurance agent puts together information about the proposed insured and puts this information on an application form so that the home office underwriter can make an underwriting evaluation and decision.

Field underwriting (Health Insurance)

An initial decision by the insurance agent in the field about a prospective insured, based on whether they may meet the underwriting standards of the insurer.