Level: Beginner
Why you need this course:
After completing this course, you’ll understand how underwriting functions� help to establish an insurer’s products, pricing for those products, and selection of customers to whom the products will be sold.
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the purpose of underwriting and an insurer’s major underwriting activities to achieve that purpose.
- Explain how underwriters protect an insurer’s available capacity.
- Describe the steps in the underwriting process that an underwriter follows in selecting policyholders.
- Describe an underwriter’s options when evaluating an application for insurance.
- Explain how states regulate underwriting activities through restrictions on unfair discrimination, cancellation, and nonrenewal.
Cost: $20 per Professional Development Hour (PDH). Information on PDHs provided can be found
here.
Underwriting Fundamentals Topics Include:
- The purpose of underwriting and an insurer’s major underwriting activities to achieve that purpose
- How underwriters protect an insurer’s available capacity
- The steps in the underwriting process that an underwriter follows in selecting policyholders
- An underwriter’s options when evaluating an application for insurance
- How states regulate underwriting activities through restrictions on unfair discrimination, cancellation, and nonrenewal
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