L&I Industrial Insurance Underwriter , Special Risk Team

Our Mission

Keep Washington Safe and Working!

Customer Focus, One L&I, Respect, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Learning and Growth, Reliability

This opportunity is open to Labor & Industries employees only.

The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety, health, and security of Washington's workers. We help employers meet safety and health standards and inspect workplaces when alerted to hazards. As administrators of the state's workers' compensation system, we are similar to a large insurance company, providing medical and limited wage-replacement coverage to workers who suffer job-related injuries and illness.

Our rules and enforcement programs also help ensure workers are paid what they are owed, that children's and teens' work hours are limited, and that consumers are protected from unsound business practices.

Insurance Services is the largest division within the agency and administers one of the premier workers’ compensation organizations in the nation serving over 3.8 million employees working for 260,000 employers.

The Employer Services program within the Insurance Services Division is responsible for establishing and maintaining industrial insurance accounts for over 230,000+ employers and 2.5 million employees doing business throughout the state of Washington. The program provides a wide array of services to employers in the State Fund from helping new businesses get workers’ compensation coverage to specialized underwriting.

The Industrial Insurance Underwriter 4 (IIU4) position is located within Employer Services Division of Insurance Services.

Industrial Insurance Underwriters independently underwrite and manage a caseload of state fund workers’ compensation policies with a variety of complexities based on industry hazards. This position provides expert consultative and technical support to employers, third party representatives, and other divisions within the agency.

• Assign claims in the trucking and other specialized industries.
• Perform education and compliance in the reforestation, drywall, safe patient handling, and logging industries.
• Educate employers on Out of State reporting requirements, review and process supplemental reports.
• Educate employers on Sports Teams on coverage requirements.
• Perform outreach activities with internal and external stakeholders.
• Testify in court proceedings regarding the specialized industries.
• Perform experience rating calculations for the specialized industries.
• Extensive communication with employers by phone.
• Apply premium escalation strategy with employers to ensure proper reporting.
• Perform mathematical calculations to ensure correct compliance in the specialized industries.
• And much more!

• A Bachelor's degree with a field of focus involving tax liabilities, insurance benefits, risk classification, accounting or bookkeeping work, research, statistical or management analysis or related fields.
• One year of experience as an Industrial Insurance Underwriter 3 (
  
  Note:
  
  Additional qualifying experience may substitute year for year, for the required education. This experience must include four years of direct customer service).
• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

• Attention to Detail:
  Is careful and thorough when entering data; reviews work to ensure quality and accuracy; produces documents containing few if any errors. Ability to review written or verbal information for the purpose of recognizing and correcting deficiencies, errors, omissions, etc.
• Researching and Gathering Information:
  Effectively identifies, collects, organizes and documents data and information in ways that make the information most useful for subsequent assessment, analysis and investigation.
• Decisiveness:
  Makes timely decisions without sacrificing quality even under ambiguous circumstances or when data is limited.
• Workload Management:
  Effectively organizes multiple assignments, sometimes of complex nature or involving competing priorities, to produce work that is accurate, thorough and on…