Associate Underwriter - Equine/AgriBusiness

Full Time
Ocala, FL 34474
Posted
Job description

Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group, a Fortune 500 company. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value diversity and recognize the benefits gained when people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences work collaboratively to achieve business results. We are intentionally focused on fostering an inclusive culture and know valuing diversity is an essential leadership quality. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered and enabled to perform at their best.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

  • Administers and monitors underwriting rules and guidelines, rating manual rules, and insurance laws and regulations. Reviews, documents, and/or underwrites new and renewal policy transactions within written authority.
    • Proofs policy information on an assigned product, territory, and/or agency(ies).
    • Reviews premium and loss data on an individual account as part of renewal underwriting, change underwriting, or mid-term underwriting.
  • Reviews insurance applications and other risk documentation. Reviews underwriting requirements and refers applications, endorsement requests or other correspondence for further underwriting analysis when outside of written authority.
    • Verifies coverage limits, performs necessary calculations and completes other checks before processing policies.
    • Communicates rejection / denial of risk when deemed appropriate and not handled by automated means.
  • Orders, reviews, and takes appropriate action on required reports, endorsement requests, service requests, and general correspondence.
  • Analyzes individual risk pricing for new business submissions and renewals within written authority.
  • Communicates with agents, brokers and customers to obtain information needed to underwrite risks and address issues. Researches and responds to questions from agents.
  • May provide support to underwriter(s).
    • Gathers information on new and renewal business and change requests to support underwriter decision making.
    • Organizes the underwriting information to speed decision making on the part of the underwriter.
    • Investigates discrepancies in the information gathered.
    • May include “template” policy review and actions such as endorsement within assigned authority level.
  • Provides information to Processing that is needed to issue policies and endorsements on a timely basis. May issue, process or code transactions.
    • Monitors entry / processing to ensure data integrity and to avoid potential systemic issues.
  • May provide guidance to less experienced staff and serve as a resource to other functional areas.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Education: Associate Degree or equivalent experience.

Field of Study: Business, Liberal Arts or a related discipline.

Experience: 4 to 6 years related Property & Casualty experience.

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Business Unit:

AgriBusiness

Benefits:

We offer competitive healthcare, retirement and paid time off benefits.

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