Director, Underwriting - Excess Casualty

Company Details

From middle market to Fortune 500 companies, Berkley Custom’s team is committed to providing excellent service and a consistent approach to meet the needs of their brokers and their customers, bringing specific expertise in excess casualty as well as a variety of targeted primary and excess programs.

They seek to outperform competitors with focus and deep understanding of their client’s priorities and by developing creative risk solutions to meet their long-term needs. Their key differentiators include the following:

EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIPS -Berkley Custom works exclusively the wholesale brokerage community as well as their program partners, and continually builds upon long established relationships with a passion for superior service for their appointed producers.

INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
- Berkley Custom attracts and retains professionals with significant experience in their field, many with over 25 years in the business. Their culture values and promotes deep industry knowledge, integrity, excellence, and respect.

LONG-TERM APPROACH TO ACCOUNTS
- Berkley Custom continually seeks partners for the long term who share their values and risk management discipline.

Long-term relationships have been their management’s trademark in over 30 years of serving customers in the E&S and Program marketplace. Their team is dedicated to serving the varied casualty exposure needs of their brokers and their customers. By truly understanding risk exposures in a constantly changing global environment, they can better work with you to keep risk placement recommendations current and responsive.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Berkley Custom Insurance Managers

The Director, Underwriting - Excess Casualty
is responsible for analyses of potential and existing customers by gathering and reviewing information on the companies’ financial condition, loss and exposure history, and other relevant information to determine underwriting acceptability. Duties will also entail assessing economic acceptability of the risks and other important criteria that may affect the type of insurance coverage provided and premiums charged.

Under supervision, the person in this role will assess risk, set rate and coverage levels. The successful candidate with excellent experience while developing their critical underwriting skills, through both independent and on-the-job training (e.g., job shadowing, mentorship, etc.).

It is expected that the person in this role will establish, support, and maintain effective relationships with peers, customers, and brokers/agents. The person will also focus on learning how to evaluate both new and renewal book of business from evaluation to the pricing of the risk.

Broker Management

• Understand the relationship between the brokerage community and underwriting; includes importance of managing the expectations of and communicating underwriting decisions, requirements, and philosophies to brokerage community.
• Maintain producer / agency contact log information in electronic databases.
• Participate in agency visitations with underwriters, claims representative or loss control representative to begin developing customer contacts.

Underwriting Duties

• Evaluate risk characteristics of submissions to determine business opportunities in accordance with guidelines and company philosophy.
• Review underwriting documents for accuracy prior to their release to brokers and/or company clients.
• Learn to analyze coverage and limit requests to determine terms to be offer. Prices business in accordance with company guidelines.
• Assesses risk quality and compliance within company guidelines and initiates appropriate loss prevention actions.
• Orders and screens miscellaneous reports needed in the…