Senior Hospital Underwriter - Medical Professional Liability
Overview
An exciting opportunity exists to join the Pro Assurance family of companies. Our mission is powerful and simple:
We protect others. Pro Assurance specializes in healthcare professional liability, products liability for medical technology and life sciences, legal professional liability, and workers' compensation insurance. We are an industry-leading specialty insurer with job opportunities in much of the contiguous United States. This position supports the hospital and facilities segment of our medical professional liability line of business. Preference is for this position to be based in our Midwest Region and we can support a remote work arrangement.
Our Midwest Region includes:
North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. Medical professional liability underwriting experience with a focus on hospitals is required.
The primary responsibility of the Senior Underwriter (Specialty) is to use underwriting authority to develop and build external relationships to write profitable new business and retain existing policyholders in an assigned territory and/or with assigned brokers. This underwriter will solicit, examine, accept, and reject insurance risks based on underwriting guidelines in all market segments of the program. This role will follow the underwriting authority granted by the Vice President Specialty Underwriting.
This position will classify and price acceptable accounts to meet underwriting profit goals and expense objectives; support underwriting colleagues with broader production responsibilities; and monitor, analyze, and report on the quantity and quality of the assigned book of business. The Senior Underwriter has responsibility over larger, more complex accounts within a specialized segment of the specialty underwriting unit. This position will serve as a sounding board and mentor to the Underwriters.
you'll do
Underwrite new and renewal submissions, with primary focus upon manual and experience rated accounts. Pursue new business opportunities while managing existing book of renewal business. Create terms and conditions for each applicant based on underwriting guidelines, program rates and coverage forms and authority level. Work closely with and collaborate with colleagues in all disciplines including Actuarial, Claims, and Risk. Adhere to Letter of Authority without exception.
Will use advanced knowledge of pricing models and be proficient at working through the actuarial-underwriting nuances. May work with admitted and non-admitted accounts. Identify program risks, process improvement opportunities and claims trends. Refer accounts to the Production Team when appropriate.
Expand new business opportunities in preferred classes of business through target accounts and brokers in all market segments. Arrange and conduct meetings with brokers/agents, and insureds/prospects to discuss terms and conditions, exposures, claims, and related concerns.
Document files and ensure compliance and audit-worthiness. Collaborate with other teams on cross-sell initiatives.
Assist in establishment of revenue budget and monitor performance against plan, while keeping keen focus upon loss ratio targets. Provide reporting to leadership to facilitate tracking and measurement of results.
Keep educated on evolving risks and exposures. Engage others about ways to improve the service and/or products that we provide. Encourage others, at all levels, to offer ideas and take initiative to vet those ideas.
- Bachelor’s degree required with a preference for study in insurance, risk management, business administration or another business-related field.
- Minimum of at least seven years medical professional liability underwriting experience, with at least four of those years with specialty underwriting experience.
- CPCU, AIC, or ARM highly desired.
- Understanding of insurance and medical terminology and…
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