Senior Life Insurance Underwriter

Company: Hovin Underwriting Partners Inc
Location: Simsbury
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

HOVIN Underwriting Partners, Inc. located in Simsbury, CT has immediateopenings for experienced life underwriters. Remote opportunity isavailable for qualified candidate. HOVIN offers benefits including medical,dental, vision, and 401k, paid time off and life insurance.To learn moreabout the HOVIN team, please visit our website at www.hovinpartners.com . Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Performs, documents, and communicates risk assessment onindividual life applications and quick quotes in keeping with HOVIN and clientcompany guidelines and mortality.
• Consults with senior staff, medical directors, other underwriters,and corporate personnel as required.
• Maintains open communication with client personnel,associates and branch managers in order to develop strong relationships andpromote trust.
• Ensures individual workflow and time standards aremaintained.
• Maintains approval authority in the amount of$1,000,000-$3,000,000 for standard and substandard risk on own signature,subject to client company limitation.
• Maintains awareness of changes in industry initiative(legislation, product development, etc.) and principles of risk selection(medical and non-medical). Requirements: Qualifications:Toperform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform eachessential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below arerepresentative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.--Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilitiesto perform the essential functions. Educational Experience:College graduate or equivalent business experience. 5 - 10 years as aLife Underwriter with proven record of successful performance,--direct orreinsurance experience. Industry coursework required, includes LOMA andALU. FALU, FLMI, CLU designations preferred. Language Ability:Abilityto read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals,financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiriesor complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the businesscommunity. Ability to effectively present information to top management, publicgroups, and/or boards of directors. Multi-lingual skills are a plus. Math Ability:Abilityto work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statisticalinference. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios,and proportions to practical situations.
  Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establishfacts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety oftechnical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with severalabstract and concrete variables. Special Skills:
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills to interact effectively with agents and support staff.
  • Excellent time management, decision-making, problem-solving and organizational skills.
    Extensive knowledge of industry operations andproduct knowledge of past and present product portfolio. Normal ECG Interpretation Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pharmacology,medical impairments, medical terminology test results.
    • Knowledge of non-medical risks such asoccupation, aviation, avocation, driving and foreign travel.
    • Abilityto work independently in a telecommuting environment Upload Your Resume Accepted formats: .pdf, .doc, .docx

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