Underwriter

• Work with Underwriter, ensuring that all required information is obtained, proper applications are completed
• Provide full assistance and support for the sales and production process
• Work with Underwriter when reviewing risks submitted by Producers
• Review indications, quotes, binders, submissions and policies for completeness and accuracy
• Become thoroughly familiar with the use of all agency management software systems and suggest labor saving uses
• Order and review inspections
• Issuance of Certificates of Insurance

Underwriting Assistant

• Design and execute underwriting strategies that drive profitable growth while ensuring strong, risk-adjusted returns.
• Establish and oversee underwriting guidelines, pricing models, and risk selection standards to ensure consistency and sound decision-making.
• Monitor and evaluate portfolio performance, underwriting KPIs, and loss trends to identify opportunities for improvement and optimize results.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of commercial underwriters, ensuring alignment with company goals and fostering professional growth.
• Conduct quarterly quality assurance audits, assess underwriting accuracy and compliance, and present actionable insights to senior leadership.

Commercial CAT Underwriting Manager

• Responsible for achievement of top and bottom-line results for new and renewal business
• Deliver on underwriting profit results with focus on profitability, loss ratio and combined ratio
• Analyze group medical claims data, demographics, and plan designs to assess risk and determine appropriate stop-loss premiums
• Collaborate with distribution and actuarial teams on complex case evaluations, renewals, and new business opportunities
• Mentor and train junior underwriters, sharing technical expertise and best practices

Medical Stop Loss Underwriting Practice Lead, Accident & Health

• Define the roadmap, focusing on delivery models that inject intelligence into core client systems and strategic technology partners.
• Manage the development of human-centric systems that bolster human decision-making with deeper insights.
• Partner with property, peril, and analytics teams to ensure data is successfully transformed into actionable insights.
• Work with insurance carriers to deploy solutions that improve their decision integrity and velocity across a variety of workflows.

AVP, Product Management – Personal Lines Property Underwriting Intelligence

• Partner with the SVP to guide the underwriting approach for the Management Liability business, including risk appetite and decision authority.
• Review and provide input on complex or higher-exposure accounts, and step in on key deals as needed.
• Lead a team of five underwriters, supporting their day-to-day work, performance, and development.
• Maintain your own book of business, including underwriting decisions, broker engagement, and portfolio performance.
• Build and maintain relationships with wholesale brokers within the West region.
• Partner with Product, Actuarial, and Claims to adjust pricing, coverage, and underwriting approach as needed.
• Monitor portfolio trends and adjust underwriting approach where appropriate.
• Look for ways to improve workflows and make underwriting processes more efficient.
• Ensure underwriting practices align with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and ongoing development of underwriting staff.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Vice President, Management Liability Underwriting

• Through collaboration with the EVP of the Excess Middle Market (MM), establish the underwriting direction, underwriting appetite, and underwriting authority for the Excess MM businesses to support profitability targets.
• Ensures compliance to underwriting direction, underwriting appetite, and underwriting authority through individual account discussions and underwriting audits.
• Collaborates with Excess MM leadership on the development of business plans, products, and IT support.
• Collaborates with Excess MM leadership to identify training needs and development of a plan to address needs.
• Coaches, mentors and directs training and development of the underwriting team to ensure underwriting quality and proficiency.
• Supports the development of staff through coaching, leading organizational change, cultivating relationships, putting staff in a position to succeed, and creating a climate where staff are motivated to do their best.
• Partner with support functions such as Product, Actuarial, Claims, Regulatory, Loss Control, and IT to ensure products are compliant, competitive, and profitable.
• Collaborate on the development of pricing models appropriate for various types of commercial lines.
• Coach, mentor, and direct training and development of individual underwriting teams to ensure underwriting and service quality and proficiency.
• Ensure regulatory and legal compliance.
• Identify and capitalize on expense reduction opportunities, through process and technology enhancements.
• Travel as needed. Perform other duties as assigned.

Vice President, Underwriting

• Manages the credit underwriting and credit administration functions for assigned portfolio
• Establishes the credit structure, Borrower Risk Ratings and Facility Risk Ratings for new and existing credit relationships
• Directs the Centralized Credit Management staff within assigned teams in monitoring the portfolio and/or origination of new credit exposure
• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions
• Guides the team to properly structuring new and existing credit exposure within the bank's risk appetite
• Ensures adherence to Risk Policies, implements operational risk processes, policies, and practices

National Commercial Underwriting Manager I – Small Business Portfolio Management

• Provide high-quality service to internal and external customers
• Monitor departmental inboxes and set up new and renewal submissions in systems on time
• Create and maintain electronic files; track completion to support audit compliance
• Analyze contracts and review underwriting documents to capture agreed terms accurately in systems
• Partner with underwriters to meet monthly deadlines and ensure premium is processed and booked
• Process premium adjustments and cancellations
• Follow up with underwriters to obtain missing or final documentation
• Complete quality reviews as assigned
• Support the annual self-audit process
• Use sound judgment to troubleshoot and resolve inquiries, including accounting and claims requests
• Identify process improvements and support system enhancements, including User Acceptance Testing
• Participate in special projects as needed
• Collaborate across teams to drive process optimization and continuous improvement
• Continuously build skills and knowledge to better support the business

Senior Technical Underwriting Assistant – Reinsurance

• Assists underwriters with reviewing submissions, drafting quotes, binders, policies, and endorsements maintaining a field service reputation that is recognized as superior in the industry
• Codes, bills, registers, processes, and distributes insurance invoices, binders, policies, and endorsement within processing standards established by leadership
• Contacts external distribution partners for any required or outstanding underwriting information; pre or post binding as needed to underwrite and complete file documentation
• Provides support for file audits by maintaining files and conducting file reviews, QA/QC as needed
• Reviews and resolves premium discrepancies
• Monitors the in-office underwriting workflow to meet service level agreements as determined by leadership as well as perform special projects as needed

Underwriting Technician, Primary Retail Casualty

• Manages an underwriting staff and is accountable for business results through the oversight
• Leads the management of a multi-region renewal portfolio and oversees the work activities, performance, and development of underwriting staff
• Makes recommendations on underwriting policy and pricing strategy to management
• Prepares and presents operational reports to management
• Develops, maintains and cultivates agency and/or broker relationships to ensure positive and profitable outcomes

Underwriting Manager

• Determines acceptability of medically underwritten risks for complex cases
• Calculates appropriate group/individual premium rates for new business and renewal
• Proposes new business rates for complex cases ensuring rating compliance
• Calculates renewal rates for complex cases utilizing a thorough analysis of medical experience
• Evaluates medical information to assign appropriate underwriting decision
• Monitors rating compliance reporting with actuaries for assigned business
• Analyzes and responds to written and verbal underwriting inquiries
• Participates in and may lead special underwriting projects
• Interacts frequently with brokers, sales, administration and actuarial areas

Clinical Medical Review – Oncology

• Lead an underwriting team that supports key agency partnerships and drives consistent, high-quality portfolio performance
• Partner with leadership and distribution to drive growth, maintain key relationships, and ensure consistent underwriting execution and performance
• Build and maintain relationships with key Retail agency partners to support submission activity and improve business mix
• Support underwriting planning by working with leadership and communicating direction to the team
• Handle higher-level referrals from underwriting supervisors and assist with complex accounts
• Monitor submission and renewal volume, team productivity, and service level performance
• Review workflows and assess staffing needs, including coordinating training for new and existing team members
• Review quality control results to identify trends and areas for improvement
• Work with teams to ensure underwriting policies and procedures remain accurate and up to date
• Participate in agency meetings, internal meetings, and industry events as needed

• Provide underwriting with pre-quote transaction support
• Validate data entry into underwriting workbooks and systems
• Assist in the verification of proper documentation regarding coverage and limits
• Communicate, as needed, with producers to obtain information required to complete transactions
• Review and process bind orders
• Utilize various internal systems to complete policy drafting
• Complete booking of premium within appropriate system
• Issue approved policies
• Perform review of underlying policies, report policy data to third party reporting agencies
• Process post-bind transactions, including subjectivity and inspection follow-up, endorsements, cancellations, and reinstatements
• Contribute to the Crum & Forster team environment and continuous improvement philosophy
• Assist with special projects, upon request

Underwriting Assistant – GL and Excess

• Manages the work activities, performance, and professional development of the underwriting department, including leading and supporting a geographically dispersed remote team.
• Manage agency relationships and book management.
• Coach underwriting leaders, mentor underwriters, and contribute to the design and delivery of underwriting training programs; travel is required.
• Makes recommendations on underwriting policy and pricing strategy to Business Unit Lead.
• Reviews and manages the application of underwriting policy and pricing for all risks.
• Drive key initiatives and business strategies.
• Represent the organization at key industry events and conduct agency visits.
• Partner with the Product department to develop new products and enhance underwriting approaches.
• Work with the Claims team to review large loss reports and take corrective action when necessary.
• Work with the Actuarial team to review pricing, underwriting results, and portfolio performance.
• Coordinate with the Marketing team to communicate value propositions and underwriting messages to agency partners.
• Stay current on state and territory regulatory requirements, industry activity, and market trends.
• Lead and participate in projects as assigned.
• Perform other duties as needed.

• Communicate regularly with agents via email or phone to address concerns, obtain needed information, or answer general inquiries.
• Create and manage the electronic file set up and file maintenance process for new and renewing policies.
• Collect required documentation and support the filing of surplus lines taxes and fees, when applicable, in accordance with state regulatory requirements and internal procedures.
• Ensure that applications are completed and endorsed properly for binding.
• Follow insurance rules and regulatory guidelines to issue Notices of Rescission, Non-Renewal, Notice of Cancellation, and Rescission via ODEN.
• Utilize our policy management system, IMS, to ensure timely follow-up on the daily completion of tasks such as inspections, NOC’s, etc.
• Issue certified letters and notices as needed using our direct mailing platform, LOB.
• Assist the team with general day-to-day underwriting responsibilities and participate in various special projects as needed.

Commercial Underwriting Assistant

• Develop financial underwriting models to support Request for Proposals (RFPs), renewals, and market checks
• Build pricing strategies and financial offers for prospective and existing clients
• Conduct financial modeling and scenario analysis to support strategic decision making
• Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate program performance, cost savings, and ROI
• Develop analytic reports and dashboards to support internal stakeholders and client needs
• Interpret financial data and communicate insights to leadership and cross-functional teams
• Partner with sales, proposals, marketing, clinical, and account management teams to support financial strategy
• Assist with internal reporting and development of financial methodologies and analytics frameworks
• Ensure client accounts are configured according to agreed financial terms and conditions
• Participate in corporate financial planning and business strategy initiatives
• Support pharmacy benefits pricing strategies and client reporting processes
• Manage multiple analytical requests while prioritizing high-impact initiatives

Underwriting Analyst

• Drive profitable growth in Accident & Health by underwriting new and renewal business
• Set high customer service standards
• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior underwriters
• Develop strong relationships with brokers and clients

Underwriting Specialist, Accident & Health

• Verify accuracy and completeness of information necessary to process transactions
• Process transactions such as mid-term changes and issue new business and renewal policies
• Act on any specific renewal activities or instructions
• Review incoming policy specification inquiries and/or Renewal Questionnaires and recognize changes that need to be addressed and/or referred
• Manage all work assignments and plan for date sensitive activities in advance of taking PTO
• Handle certificate requests from customers in a timely fashion

Commercial Lines Underwriting Technician

• Manage 3 UW teams and develop their skill sets in line with our underwriting philosophy and guidelines
• Maintain relationships and stay on the cutting edge of new third party data offerings. Identify, pilot, and engage new tools to improve underwriting
• Communicate with our insurance partners in concert with Ladder’s business development director who leads the relationship management of our reinsurers and carriers
• Partner with actuary to present mortality slippage each month to Ladder’s mortality team
• Serve as a subject matter expert to engineering and product teams as we build new insurance offerings

Director, Underwriting

• Manage the day-to-day work activities of a group of property underwriters and underwriting support staff
• Work closely with the Northeast Leadership team and Product Line Leadership team to develop and execute on business and marketing strategies
• Balance the team’s workloads and maintain appropriate staffing levels
• Guide in risk selection and pricing
• Underwrite new and renewal business in a profitable manner
• Address career and training needs on an individual basis
• Communicate effectively and ensure team has been adequately updated on matters relating to workflow or procedural changes
• Oversee the overall quality of the unit’s performance and measures the underwriting team expertise through periodic audits

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