Insurance Wordings Lawyer
AIG
We are seeking an experienced Insurance Wordings Lawyer to join the Product Underwriting Legal team in the Global Legal, Compliance, and Regulatory (GLCR) department at AIG.
The Product Underwriting Legal team is comprised of attorneys, as well as other individuals with an equivalent legal education, who provide high quality advisory, drafting, and transactional support across the Company. This role will support projects that are time-sensitive, highly visible inside and outside of the company, and key to AIG’s strategic business initiatives. This position ultimately reports to the Head of Product Underwriting Legal within GLCR, and the role supports all product lines within AIG’s North America and International businesses. The primary responsibility of the Product Counsel is to support the Lead Underwriting Counsel in developing and drafting market leading products, as well as new and updated standard proprietary AIG policies and endorsements, which all reflect the Company’s underwriting intent clearly and unambiguously. The role requires collaboration with legal teams across GLCR, and with Underwriting, Claims, Actuarial, and Reinsurance colleagues.
How you will create an impact:
This is a new high-profile role within our business, so there will be the opportunity to make this role your own and help to shape the engagement model.
Some of the key responsibilities include:
+ Draft and develop both new and updated standard proprietary AIG products, policies, and endorsements across multiple product lines and jurisdictions.
+ Support the Lead Underwriting Counsel in providing advice to the office of the CUO in adopting new and updated policies and endorsements.
+ Develop AIG policies and endorsements based on broker and other carrier’s forms, to address client-specific exposures and to promote the use of AIG preferred wordings in policy placements.
+ Work closely with GLCR colleagues to address legal, regulatory, and compliance issues of all types related to product development and policy wordings.
+ Provide advice and insights with respect to policies and endorsements used by other market participants.
+ Ensure underwriting intent is accurately reflected by utilizing clear and unambiguous policy and endorsement wording.
+ Work with other areas in AIG, e.g., Claims, Actuarial, and the Coverage Litigation team, to identify exposure trends relative to policy and endorsement wordings, and to appropriately address the trends in policies and endorsements standard language.
+ Drive remediation of existing policies and endorsements, identifying those that should be retired, updated, or replaced.
+ Act as a liaison coordinating and driving policy and endorsement wording drafting and discussions with line of business leaders, chief product underwriters, senior claims executives, and other internal and external stakeholders.
+ Support the population and maintenance of a comprehensive policy and endorsement repository.
+ Support the Lead Underwriting Counsel in providing advice to the office of the CUO on the development of guidelines and authorities to facilitate comprehensive product and wordings governance.
+ Provide policy and endorsement training for AIG underwriting staff, giving direction and insight on wording and usage.
What you'll need to succeed
+ Legal degree and qualification required . L icense preferred – ideally qualified in multiple jurisdictions.
+ Demonstrated experience advising senior business partners/clients on complex insurance wording, coverage, and related insurance transactional matters.
+ Insurance coverage litigation and advisory experience obtained in private practice preferred.
+ Drafting experience from an insurer, broker, or a law firm.
+ Strong ability to prioritize projects, respond promptly in an appropriate manner, and deliver with excellence in a high pace environment.
+ Fluent business English proficiency with a second language advantageous
+ Exceptional communicator with the ability to distil complex topics and issues into to relatable and easy to understand concepts for non-lawyers
+ Driven problem solver with demonstrated success in proactively addressing internal and external client needs with fit for purpose solutions in a timely fashion.
+ D etail oriented and focused on developing thorough documentation to support sustainable processes and practices.
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