C121

Advanced Underwriting

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C121

About this course

C121 is the second course in the Underwriting Professional Series and is addressed to underwriters with some experience. In this course, you will continue and expand the exploration begun in C120: Underwriting Essentials.
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Areas of interest

1
Review the nature of an underwriter’s work and the types of knowledge, skill and temperament an underwriter needs.
2
Examine how the characteristics required for underwriting must be broadened and deepened to analyze the needs and loss experience of larger, more complex risks.
3
Explore some more unusual or specialized lines of insurance.
4
Consider the broader perspective a more experienced underwriter needs in dealing with the legal and regulatory environment, manuscript wordings, alternative risk transfer, reinsurance and international risks.

Topics

  • Underwriting Tools and Needs Analysis
  • Loss Analysis and Rating
  • Lines of Insurance: Property-Related
  • Lines of Insurance: Liability-Related
  • Technology and Underwriting
  • Climate Change and Underwriting
  • Financial Evaluation Skills
  • Alternative Risk Financing
  • International Business
  • Retention and Reinsurance

Who should register

This course can be taken as one of three Applied Professional courses required for your CIP. If you have already completed other Applied Professional courses, you can take this course as an elective.
Before you take C121: Advanced Underwriting, we recommend that you have taken the following courses:
C11: Principles and Practice of Insurance
C12: Insurance on Property
C13: Insurance Against Liability—Part 1
C14: Automobile Insurance—Part 1
C120: Underwriting Essentials

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