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We have an opportunity for an Underwriter to join our Berkley One team! You will be responsible for transactional underwriting and functions associated with underwriting risks on behalf of our high net worth clients. We have four openings available (due to growth - very exciting!). These roles can be based in our offices in either: Chicago, IL or Morristown, NJ
We have a welcoming culture valuing our employees – we trademarked the phrase Everything Counts, Everyone Matters® to describe the Berkley commitment to our people and how we do business. We believe that every person in the organization is important and every accomplishment makes a difference in our results. Come join us!
Key functions include but are not limited to:
- In our rapidly growing environment, new business is the focus of the underwriter’s day at Berkley One; you will use your excellent experience and decision-making skills to seek the most profitable business
- Protect our portfolio by collaborating with risk management to identify and recommend solutions that ultimately make the risk better than when it started
- Innovate with the team and larger organization to effect the changes you want to see whether it be in the day to day or larger organization priorities
- Partner with a designated group of agents with focus on individuals and creating Berkley One champions by building strong relationships, coaching on new business solutions, and taking time to understand what’s most important to the agent and client
- Consult and help agents understand our appetite and apply that knowledge to risk selection
- Utilize our cutting-edge technology tools that help you monitor the quality of your book of business and use the knowledge in your individual decisions
- Collaborate with Distribution and Marketing colleagues to co-create plans that drive the business
The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for assisting with preparation of weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial analysis schedules of actual vs. budget variances. Prepare detailed annual financial budget and monthly financial forecasts. Provide financial analysis support to various areas of the company. Prepares and analyzes financial results related to inquiries from management.
- Monitors financial systems, procedures, and controls for accuracy, analyzes sufficiency of expense accruals and prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statement journal entries and management reports.
- Prepares monthly and quarterly calculations and monitors significant financial statement items such as reinsurance, expenses (DAC, commission, etc.), and losses.
- Assists in the preparation of annual planning forecasts and other related planning inputs and exhibits. Provides modeling assistance to determine the impact of potential scenarios and plans.
- Prepares financial analyses and assists with special projects supporting operating units or corporate initiatives (accounting, systems, etc.)
- Assists in the preparation of monthly and quarterly management reporting on actual vs. plan results, providing variance analysis.
- Reviews financial accounts and prepares account reconciliations, adheres to and provides assistance with financial control (SOX) documentation, processes and procedures.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by management.
The Senior Underwriter will manage all related underwriting tasks required in assigned territory to promote written premium growth and favorable loss ratio results. Key Functions will include but not limited to:
- Responsible for new and renewal accounts with a focus on acquisition including underwriting and pricing accounts in accordance with Acadia’s underwriting standards and personal underwriting authority.
- Evaluate, select, and price policies for assigned agencies to achieve underwriting profit (within underwriting authority), premium growth, desired business mix, market/agency penetration, and agency management objectives with a focus on new business. Refer risks exceeding authority to management with recommendations for approval or disposition.
- Develop and manage assigned agency relationships with producers and customers through visitations and regular customer contact.
- Evaluate the performance of assigned agencies on an ongoing basis to ensure company and agency goals and objectives are met. Participate in review and evaluation of agencies and make recommendations on agency management issues. Communicate corporate goals, programs, underwriting policies, procedures, and guidelines to agents.
- Monitor production, hit ratios, renewal retention ratios, spread of risk, and other production and quality measures.
- Request information needed for underwriting and pricing of assigned business.
- Conduct negotiations with assigned agents.
- Coordinate loss control, claim, audit and billing services as needed.
- Bind reinsurance, review certificates from reinsurers.
- Maintain a workflow for your assigned territory which meets all the standards and expectations of the department. Strive to improve processes within the Company to increase the level and quality of service provided to internal and external customers.
- Demonstrate a commitment to self-development. Manage larger agencies and complex accounts.
- Act as a resource for other in the department and provide direction to underwriters and support staff as needed.
- Negotiate facultative reinsurance on accounts where needed.
- Train or assist in training others as necessary. Help co-workers improve their skills by sharing your knowledge.
- Develop loss sensitive pricing approaches including retrospective rating plans and large deductibles.
- Assist in the training (coverages, new products) of staff.
- May serve as team leader with responsibility for an underwriting team. Including responsibility for workflow and service standard within the team.
The Executive Underwriter is responsible for submission generation, underwriting and policy issuance of Directors and Officers Liability, Employment Practices Liability, Fiduciary Liability, Fidelity/Crime for large private commercial and not-for-profit healthcare organizations. The underwriting position will be part of the Berkley Healthcare Financial Lines (Management Liability) division of Berkley Healthcare. S/he will be responsible for handling new and renewal, primary and excess business throughout the placement process from underwriting submission receipt to policy issuance.
While we seek candidates for our West Hartford, CT or Chicago offices, we will consider candidates near other major metropolitan areas.
What you can expect:
- Culture of innovation, teamwork, supportive colleagues and leaders willing to invest in talent
- Internal mobility opportunities
- Visibility to senior leaders and partnership with cross functional teams
- Opportunity to impact change
- Benefits – competitive compensation, paid time off, comprehensive wellness benefits and programs, employer funded health savings account, profit sharing, 401k, paid parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, tuition assistance and professional continuing education
We'll count on you to:
- Determine risk acceptability in accordance with underwriting risk appetite and guidelines
- Prepare thorough underwriting analyses with detailed exposure analysis and independent underwriter assessment
- Make pricing, coverage, terms and conditions determinations and recommendations within defined limits/authority and underwriting guidelines and authority parameters
- Develop, grow and maintain a profitable, diversified book of business aligned with company goals
- Ensure production and loss ratio goals are achieved for assigned book by reviewing, analyzing and evaluating information and taking appropriate action as necessary
- Develop positive agency relationships within assigned territory while maintaining a good rapport through responsive levels of service
- Coordinate marketing activities including travel in coordination with Distribution and Marketing Manager
- Foster growth of less experienced staff in a positive and growth-oriented environment
- Actively self-educate as to line of business, industry and insurance trends including exposures, claims, legal, legislative, healthcare, current events, self-improvement and innovation
Drives distribution partner acquisition and profitable new business growth within assigned territory. Collaborates with Executive Portfolio Underwriter and Portfolio Underwriting team partners in alignment with retention goals and to ensure coordinated communication with distribution partners. Applies advanced level Underwriting, Sales, and Distribution Management skills to support overall book management.
• Responsible for identifying, evaluating, and recommending new distribution partners and ensures that partner goals and strategies are in line with the company's overarching objectives.
• Oversees the initial training and ongoing education of agency partners on systems, processes, appetite, and underwriting criteria.
• Facilitates comprehensive performance evaluations and book reviews with distribution partners, focusing on key metrics such as sales targets, risk quality, profitability, and compliance.
• Analyzes new business submissions, determines acceptability of renewal risk in accordance with Company guidelines and practices in order to make profitable underwriting decisions. Applies underwriting guidelines and appetite to risk selection and pricing. Consults and negotiates with agents to package appropriate solutions to meet the needs of the insured while ensuring profitable outcomes for BFM.
• Collaborates with Portfolio Underwriters to maintain a healthy book of business consisting of varied inland marine and property classes, risk size, and complexity. Evaluates underwriting performance based on financial analysis. Includes rate, reserve adequacy, operational execution, planning and product reviews.
• Prepares reports to management concerning quality, quantity, and profitability of risks renewed and non-renewals.
• Serves as consultant to less experienced Portfolio and Sales Underwriters in areas of subject matter expertise.
• Consults with management on risks exceeding authority level or requiring special handling.
As an Underwriting Manager, you'll be responsible and accountable for strategic and operational activities, associated with the management of the BSIG business and the development of new products and programs, program management underwriting, marketing and communications within region. You'll partner with the regional leader with goals and objectives.
What you can expect:
- Culture of innovation, teamwork, supportive colleagues and leaders willing to invest in talent
- Internal mobility opportunities
- Visibility to senior leaders and partnership with cross functional teams
- Opportunity to impact change
- Benefits – competitive compensation, paid time off, comprehensive wellness benefits and programs, employer funded health savings account, profit sharing, 401k, paid parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, tuition assistance and professional continuing education
We'll count on you to:
- Develop and ensure effective utilization of monitoring standards to assess product results (i.e., line profitability analysis, quarterly loss trends, utilization/productivity, etc.)
- Develop long and short-term business strategies to effectively position the company to market the proper products, programs and/or services to the right market segment through responsible market analysis and development activities.
- Establish policies and direct the analysis of information in support of ongoing programs and products as well as the development of new products and programs.
- Collaborates with the actuarial, claims, finance and systems to support line of business development and maintenance needs. Schedule and maintain audit process for underwriting. Perform all staff management functions to support profit, growth and expense management goals.
- Develop and direct the responsible product development, communication and training efforts that are consistent with business strategies and are compatible with systems and operational capacity and are consistent with BSIG’s profit, growth and retention goals.
As a Middle Market Underwiter, you'll evaluate and maintain risk acceptability and profitability within the company’s underwriting guidelines and procedures for commercial risks. You'll partner with agents to manage a challenging and/or complex book of commercial business or agency relationships. We'll trust you to make complex decisions, recommend quality exceptions where appropriate to maximize profitability and meet business plans. You'll also support marketing activities to agents and actively participates in the agency management process. You will also have the opportunity to serve as a mentor providing technical support and problem solving for other underwriters.
What you can expect:
- Culture of innovation, teamwork, supportive colleagues and leaders willing to invest in talent
- Internal mobility opportunities
- Visibility to senior leaders and partnership with cross functional teams
- Opportunity to impact change
- Benefits – competitive compensation, paid time off, comprehensive wellness benefits and programs, employer funded health savings account, profit sharing, 401k, paid parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, tuition assistance and professional continuing education
We'll count on you to:
- Analyze commercial lines accounts to make decisions based on individual risk characteristics, exposure analysis, hazard recognition and control. Utilizes underwriting guidelines to ensure compliance with state regulations. Within delegated authority levels, accepts, rejects or modifies new and/or renewal business to ensure a profitable book of business.
- Price business according to Company underwriting and pricing guidelines. Assist less experienced underwriters in the handling of high hazard or more complex accounts. Ability to use creativity and underwriting knowledge to write risks and retain business.
- Partner with Territory Managers to support marketing activities by developing ongoing relationships with agents to discuss market appetite, quality and profitability of submissions, service standards, and underwriting and/or product changes. Communicate with agents on underwriting issues including decisions on cancellations, declinations, exposure concerns, and survey results.
- Partner with Territory Managers to identify issues or patterns and works to resolve or improve them; participate in agency planning and review processes; and may identify sales and marketing opportunities. Take a lead role relative to Key Account review and recommendations.
- Travel, with or without Territory Manager, to assigned agent locations to develop agency partnerships.
- Train and educate agency staff on Company products, services, processes, and underwriting philosophy.
- Assist in training and serves as a technical resource to other underwriters as needed.
- Attend industry workshops/meetings each year.
We have an opportunity for an Underwriting Technician to join our team! You will be responsible for supporting all Underwriting functions at Berkley One. We have two openings available. These roles can be based in our offices in either: Morristown, NJ or Chicago, IL.
We have a welcoming culture valuing our employees – we trademarked the phrase Everything Counts, Everyone Matters® to describe the Berkley commitment to our people and how we do business. We believe that every person in the organization is important and every accomplishment makes a difference in our results. Come join us!
Key functions include but are not limited to:
- Manage accounts post issuance, involving the Underwriter as needed
- Conduct primary underwriting review of select new business opportunities with focus on optimizing our competitive position or gathering pertinent underwriting information and then responding to agents or involving the underwriter as needed
- Process renewal and endorsement transactions within authority and engage underwriters with thoughtful reviews for items exceeding granted authority
- Support overall underwriting book, ensuring timely processing of work and focus on retention of profitable accounts
- Other work and projects as assigned
We have an opportunity for an Underwriter to join our Berkley One team! You will be responsible for transactional underwriting and functions associated with underwriting risks on behalf of our high net worth clients. We have four openings available (due to growth - very exciting!). These roles can be based in our offices in either: Morristown, NJ or Chicago, IL.
We have a welcoming culture valuing our employees – we trademarked the phrase Everything Counts, Everyone Matters® to describe the Berkley commitment to our people and how we do business. We believe that every person in the organization is important and every accomplishment makes a difference in our results. Come join us!
Key functions include but are not limited to:
- In our rapidly growing environment, new business is the focus of the underwriter’s day at Berkley One; you will use your excellent experience and decision-making skills to seek the most profitable business
- Protect our portfolio by collaborating with risk management to identify and recommend solutions that ultimately make the risk better than when it started
- Innovate with the team and larger organization to effect the changes you want to see whether it be in the day to day or larger organization priorities
- Partner with a designated group of agents with focus on individuals and creating Berkley One champions by building strong relationships, coaching on new business solutions, and taking time to understand what’s most important to the agent and client
- Consult and help agents understand our appetite and apply that knowledge to risk selection
- Utilize our cutting-edge technology tools that help you monitor the quality of your book of business and use the knowledge in your individual decisions
- Collaborate with Distribution and Marketing colleagues to co-create plans that drive the business
Nautilus Insurance is seeking an experienced casualty underwriter for the Light Brokerage business. This role will be located in our Scottsdale headquarters, or potentially remotely for a highly qualified candidate.
The Underwriting Consultant, Light Brokerage primary job function includes [1] developing a comprehensive knowledge of the company’s appetite in this product space and an industry awareness in relation to opportunities and threats, [2] underwriting, including communicating appetite, rate and underwriting information to assigned agents, and [3] support the underwriting process through training of new hires or through developing associates.
Specific duties:
- Underwrites select risks in accordance with company guidelines for acceptability and rate.
- Markets, builds, and strengthens relationships with key producers within agencies that can produce a flow of preferred business to meet targets.
- Maintains profitable book of business including monitoring book for trends, profitability, and growth.
- Assess agent performance based on profitability, growth, quality of submissions, bind ratios, and other key performance indicators.
- Analyzes market conditions and provide suggestions for needed changes in forms, endorsements, and rates including opportunities for market or product expansion or enhancement.
- Collaborates with Contract Bind production underwriting teams along with Light Brokerage teammates to ensure proper placement of a risk and communicate market/agent trends and issues between divisions.
- Communicates product, rate, and form changes as appropriate with external customers.
- Corresponds or consults with agents, brokers, and other interested persons to determine feasibility and marketability of new products to meet competition and increase sales.
- Contributes to the development and maintenance of E-Guide, enhancements on web portal and other electronic products that may arise including notification of changes to internal and external customers.
- Provides guidance and support to less experienced team members within the department.
- Develops and implements, with the help of the Product Development team, new opportunities for product expansion to drive more profitable business to the portfolio
- Reviews industry publications and monitors pending legislation and regulations to determine impact of new developments on company insurance products.
- Proficient at creating manuscript policy language with the help of Forms and Legal teams.
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When you join our team as a Senior Commercial Lines Underwriter, you'll be a key member of our organization and play a pivotal role in managing and expanding our existing book of business while actively pursuing new opportunities for growth.
What you can expect:
- Supportive leaders who prioritize you, the Underwriter, coupled with highly colleagial network of peers who encourage collaboration across the enterprise
- Internal mobility opportunities, growth and learning
- Visibility to senior leaders and partnership with cross functional teams
- Culture of innovation
- Benefits – competitive salary, paid time off, comprehensive wellness benefits and programs, employer funded health savings account, profit sharing, 401k, paid parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, tuition assistance and professional continuing education
We'll count on you to:
- Manage and grow assigned book of business, leveraging your extensive experience to evaluate risks and determine optimal terms, conditions, and pricing to meet company profit objectives.
- Collaborate with agents and brokers to foster productive and profitable relationships, ensuring adherence to company underwriting guidelines.
- Underwrite new business and renewals within established authority, while adhering to company reinsurance treaties and corresponding effectively with agencies to gather necessary information.
- Contribute to the development of new products, pricing strategies, and coverage enhancements in collaboration with the Commercial Lines Vice President.
- Maintain an established loss ratio and meet production goals while delivering exceptional service in a timely manner.
- Foster customer development and relationships through proactive agency visitation and prospect calls within the assigned territory.
- Participate in ongoing education and training opportunities to stay abreast of industry developments and further enhance your expertise.
- Serve as a knowledgeable resource for staff, disseminating updates on industry trends and best practices. Assist in the training and development of other personnel as directed, contributing to the overall success and growth of the team. Provide mentorship and guidance to less experienced underwriters, serving as an informal leader within the branch.
Our Berkley Mid-Atlantic Executive Sales Underwriter maintains responsibility for underwriting, including growth and profitability, for an individual book of business while also maintaining the sales and territory management functions for that same book of business. They will oversee new business as well as manage a renewal book, including risk selection, pricing, setting terms and conditions as well as handle endorsements, agency requests, loss control, audits, etc.
Detailed Areas of Focus
Underwriting
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of the business, the marketplace and the company’s overall goals, objectives and performance measures through effective deliver of all products and services
- Act as a referral source, within assigned authority, on coverage and pricing
- Achieve profitable growth through effective use of underwriting and business skills in assigned territory
- Gather and analyze information to determine risk acceptability
- Recognize and advocate certain expectations to underwriting standards and create viable options
- Identify critical exposures, trends, and opportunities and develop strategies to address them
- Assess rate adequacy relative to exposure
- Recognize and negotiate advanced coverage and pricing issues
- Demonstrate advanced selling skills
Territory Management – for Assigned Territory, Participate in:
- Development of territory game plan and overall strategy in unison with BMAG vision (current and future)
- Agency reviews (at least quarterly)
- Organize incentives (monetary or NYC events, super producer events)
- Facilitate profit sharing delivery
Agency Management – for Assigned Territory, Complete:
- Profit sharing updates throughout the year, with focus on next level achievement (maximize revenue)
- Progress reports to plan and other incentives, monitor joint business plan
- Find a niche, questioning and developing agents’ books and matching with our UW appetite
- Schedule virtual and in person visits with pre-call agenda, inviting pertinent internal (and external) people
- Leveraging who we are, what we do to gain elite partnership with agency and perpetuate agency to top 3 of their carrier line up
Marketing
- Communication of target appetite
- Distribute marketing messages that are developed and tailored to the agency
- Facilitate leads and marketing to agents and/or producers
Resolution of
- Product, Billing, Pricing, Relationship, Service, Claims and Automation issues by vetting problem and then bringing in the applicable partners to resolve
Internal Partnering with BMAG and other WRB companies
- Provide competitor/market intel for product development
- Collaborate with Sales Peers across the Berkley family of companies
- Offer Solutions with everything Berkley
Embark on an exciting journey as an Underwriter Trainee with Acadia Insurance! This is your chance to be part of a structured training program that combines coursework, classroom learning, and hands-on experience that will provide the foundation for a career in insurance. Immerse yourself in the world of property and casualty products, risk management, underwriting philosophy, and cutting-edge strategies that define our industry leadership. Key functions will include but are not limited to:
- Participate in a 4–6-month formal training program to learn fundamentals of property & casualty insurance.
- Complete work and reading projects and pass required exams.
- Establish good working relationships with colleagues and management staff.
- Attain a basic working knowledge of state regulatory requirements for each line of business.
- Under direct supervision, perform the basic functions of underwriting for the Specialty Marine line of business.
- Participate in job-shadow arrangements in various departments.
- Participate in agency visitations with underwriters, claim representatives or loss control representatives to begin developing customer contacts.
- Occasional travel, including overnights, may be required.
- Participate in a 4–6-month formal training program to learn fundamentals of property & casualty insurance.
- Complete work and reading projects and pass required exams.
- Establish good working relationships with colleagues and management staff.
- Attain a basic working knowledge of state regulatory requirements for each line of business.
- Under direct supervision, perform the basic functions of underwriting for the Specialty Marine line of business.
- Participate in job-shadow arrangements in various departments.
- Participate in agency visitations with underwriters, claim representatives or loss control representatives to begin developing customer contacts.
- Occasional travel, including overnights, may be required.
Design, develop and implement enterprise database, data warehouse and business intelligence solutions including the requisite ETL procedures and functions leveraging the Microsoft analytics and business intelligence framework and toolsets; Leverage complex quantitative, qualitative, & technical analytic methods to support management decision-making & implement multi-department business solutions within the property and casualty insurance environment; Ensure stability, integrity, and efficient collection of data within on-line systems as well as the data warehouse; ensure on-time data availability for business processing.
Key functions include but are not limited to:
- Collaborate with IT Management, decision-makers, and stakeholders to understand business requirements, and perform data analysis, estimation, database programming, testing and implementation.
- Ensure smooth and reliable operation of data systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes
- Design, develop and implement operational databases required for business intelligence applications
- Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of the systems through the development and implementation of analytics to support continuous improvement
- Assist in researching key business issues, direct the collecting and analyzing of quantitative and qualitative data
- Gather and document business data requirements into conceptual, logical and physical data models and database designs
- Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems
- Propose and create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to development teams
- Work with project leads in analyzing system requirements and specifications and translating those requirements into database designs
- Design complex databases, database synonyms, views, cube queries
- Develop physical database designs
- Apply data design standards and guidelines
- Create and maintain documentation as it relates to data/system configuration, mapping, and processes
- Provide support and point of contact for department clients requesting routine information, data summaries, and reports
- Perform production and daily operations support for the systems
- Manage data redundancy, identify performance issues and optimize solutions as needed
- Design, create and maintain reporting solutions and dashboards as needed
- Coordinate with business departments to define system problems and enhancements
- Analyze existing workflow for efficiency; recommend and implement needed changes; balance procedures for current and future systems as assigned
- Employ specified analytical methods and tools to access data to provide reportable information from information systems
- Provide in-house education for end-user systems, as needed
- Provide direction for assigned components of project work
- Coordinate team/project activities & schedules
The Sr. Property Claims Examiner investigates, evaluates, and resolves assigned property claims in accordance with company standards, procedures, and regulatory requirements with some supervision. Key functions include but are not limited to:
- Proactively manages claim files from inception to closure including coverage analysis, investigation, damages, and evaluation with some management supervision.
- Establishes appropriate initial loss and expense reserves and continually evaluates the file on diary for adequacy, accuracy, and adherence to reserving guidelines.
- Analyzes and interprets policy language in conjunction with specific loss facts to reach appropriate coverage decisions.
- Drafts coverage correspondence including reservations of rights and coverage disclaimers in compliance with state statutes and regulations.
- Effectively and independently negotiates settlements with insureds and third parties
- Compose correspondence to insureds, claimants, attorneys, agents, and regulatory agencies.
- Appropriately and clearly documents all claim file activity, including current strategy, plan of action and maintain current diary according to claim handling best practices.
- Work with and manage independent adjusters and experts and control costs of outside vendors
- Effectively present cases within the department, and to underwriting and senior management.
- Compose Large Loss Reports and other detailed reporting documents as appropriate on a regular and timely basis.
- Identify subrogation opportunities and work with attorneys to obtain recoveries.
The Underwriter builds dynamic relationships, maintains a strong distribution channel, drives written premium growth, and maximizes renewal rate and retention while delivering a high degree of customer satisfaction within our footprint of Independent Agencies. Manage all related underwriting tasks required in assigned territory to promote written premium growth and favorable loss ratio results. Key functions will include but are not limited to:
- Strengthens relationships and educates agents within agency plan to maximize opportunities and achieve profitable growth.
- Achieves new business premium, renewal premium rate retention and rate change objectives.
- Demonstrated success in developing and maintaining positive relationships.
- Coordinate loss control and claims services as needed.
- Excellent communication skills, including listening for solutions.
- Demonstrates a willingness to collaborate with colleagues and present in a way that influences others.
- An ability to think analytically about business problems, make recommendations and propose solutions.
- High energy self-starter, who is resilient and has an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Ability to sell and influence others.
- Goal-oriented achiever who delivers results.
- Refer items exceeding your authority level to Director in a timely manner to provide an analysis.
- Maintain a workflow for your assigned territory which meets all the standards and expectations of the department and consistency to strive to improve workflow.
- Basic knowledge of computer programs in a windows environment, including Word, Excel and Email is mandatory.
Underwriting Assistant employees will be responsible to assist and support underwriters with the administration of quoting, rating and issuance of new business, quotes, renewals and endorsements.
- Policy rating (all states, multi-line).
- Obtain necessary information from Underwriters to complete tasks as needed.
- Work within established guidelines for processing quotes and issuing policies in our policy issuance system.
- Misc admin duties such as scanning documents, pulling posting notices and Proof of Coverage (POC) entry.
- Responsible for the administration of policy issuance from quote through issuance.
- Ensure that endorsements and policies are processed accurately and remitted back to the broker timely.
- Clear accounts in Underwriting System.
- Ensure electronic files are organized and setup for reviewing.
- Solicit renewal applications from the broker.
- Respond to Bureau Crits as necessary.
- Pull from the system or from other sources Loss runs and MVR’s as necessary.
- Process Audits
- Other Underwriting Assistant duties as deemed by the Environmental Regional VP.
Berkley Environmental is looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Project Manager responsible for leading, and ensuring cross-team coordination for projects encompassing multiple teams and applications. The individual in this role will be expected to collaborate with and lead projects that span various groups across Operations, Technology, Business Management through leadership, organization, communication, and execution on key deliverables and milestones.
- Creation and management of thorough project plans, delivering on project objectives and milestones
- Plan and proactively communicate all aspects of the project including risk management and change control
- Transparency with the project team and stakeholders to ensure understanding and agreement with the project scope, deliverables value and timeline
- Facilitates the engagement of the project team, stakeholder and subject matter experts in development of project items including project schedules based on scope, plan for deliverables and team member assignments
- Manage risk management plans to identify, document, escalate and mitigate risks
- Assure deliverables adhere to the defined quality assurance process
- Facilitates regular status meetings and distributes project status updates to stakeholders
- Obtain all required approvals prior to deliverables being delivered
Embark on an exciting journey as an Underwriter Trainee with Acadia Insurance! This is your chance to be part of a structured training program that combines coursework, classroom learning, and hands-on experience that will provide the foundation for a career in insurance. Immerse yourself in the world of property and casualty products, risk management, underwriting philosophy, and cutting-edge strategies that define our industry leadership. Key functions will include but are not limited to:
- Complete work and reading projects and pass required exams.
- Establish good working relationships with colleagues and management staff.
- Attain a basic working knowledge of state regulatory requirements for each line of business.
- Under direct supervision, perform the basic functions of loss control.
- Participate in job-shadow arrangements in various departments.
- Participate in agency visitations with underwriters, claim representatives and/or loss control representatives to begin developing customer contacts.
- Frequent travel, including overnights, is required.
- Analyze both internal and external data to adapt and develop rating methodologies for existing company products.
- Use techniques to incorporate new variables in pursuit of a competitive advantage and improved underwriting results.
- Utilizes loss development and other methods to participate in the determination of incurred but not reported reserve estimates to be used in profitability analyses.
- Produce regular monthly reports and/or analyses used to complete the financial close process and/or used to improve underwriting results of the company.
- Represent the needs of the actuarial department on cross functional projects.
- Constantly seek to improve current reporting and actuarial processes.
- Participate in planning ultimate loss and loss adjustment ratios based on underwriting leadership plans and changes to underwriting guidelines.