Regional Underwriting Counsel (Florida) - Westcor Land Title Insurance Company

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of underwriting counsels
• Provide underwriting guidance to team of underwriting counsels to ensure consistent risk evaluation and decisioning
• Analyze title insurance risks, underwriting issues, and regulatory concerns
• Provide underwriting solutions to agents, sales team, and title examiners in accordance with Westcor company guidelines as well as local, state and federal law
• Handle residential and commercial transactions underwriting
• Present training seminars to educate title agents and production staff (both online and in person)
• Provide outstanding customer service while making sound underwriting decisions
• Handle a high volume of underwriting inquiries via email and telephone in a timely, responsive, and professional manner
• Analyze and respond to indemnity requests
• Travel with sales staff for agent visits throughout the state
• Work well in a remote team environment

Requirements

• A J.D. degree
• At least 5 years of relevant experience
• Member in good standing with the Florida Bar

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent understanding of fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of real estate title and settlement process
• Thorough knowledge of Florida real property law and related areas as applicable to real property transactions
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Relationship building
• Problem solving
• Decision making

Licenses and Certifications

• Must be a member in good standing with the Florida Bar

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear
• Frequently required to sit
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Frequent lifting and/or moving up to 25 pounds

Work Environment

• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Employer-paid disability and life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401K with company match
• Paid time off and company-paid holidays
• Wellness Resources