Technical Underwriter
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• Assess complex new business referrals that fall outside Internal Broker Consultant authority levels.
• Evaluate risk information, claims history, loss ratios, survey findings, pricing adequacy, reinsurance requirements, and policy terms.
• Accept, amend, impose conditions on, or decline risks within delegated authority.
• Assess renewal referrals exceeding Renewal Handler mandates and implement corrective underwriting actions where required.
• Conduct comprehensive quality assurance reviews on referral packs to ensure completeness, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• Validate premiums, rating calculations, deductibles, sums insured, survey information, and policy wording requirements.
• Escalate risks that exceed your authority to the Head Office Technical Underwriting Team with clear technical recommendations.
• Manage facultative reinsurance placements by preparing submissions, obtaining quotations, evaluating terms, negotiating improved capacity and pricing, and binding approved placements.
• Assess complex, high-value, high-hazard, and non-standard commercial risks in line with risk appetite and underwriting mandates.
• Review survey reports and risk recommendations, implementing appropriate underwriting actions where necessary.
• Support underwriting audits, quality control reviews, and corrective action initiatives.
• Monitor underwriting compliance, referral quality, and business written outside approved mandates.
• Provide technical support and guidance to Internal Broker Consultants, Renewal Handlers, and Broker Consultants.
• Maintain awareness of emerging risks, underwriting trends, market developments, and reinsurance conditions.
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