Underwriting
Underwriter – Legal Indemnity Insurance FULLY REMOTE
Full Time | Monday – Friday | 9:00am – 5:30pm
Are you an experienced Legal Indemnity Underwriter looking for a role where your expertise is genuinely valued? do you work with rights of light? (desirable)
We’re looking for a technically confident underwriter to join a growing, forward-thinking business with an excellent reputation in the legal indemnity market. This is an opportunity to work remotely or on a hybrid basis, underwrite a varied portfolio of risks, contribute to product development and help shape the future of the underwriting function.
Whether your background is in Residential or Commercial Legal Indemnity, Rights of Light, Defective Title, Estate Administration/Probate Insurance, or you’ve developed your expertise within conveyancing, private client practice or a specialist broker, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Underwrite residential and commercial legal indemnity insurance risks within delegated authority.
- Assess complex title and legal risks, making commercially sound underwriting decisions.
- Calculate competitive premiums aligned with underwriting guidelines and risk appetite.
- Produce clear underwriting notes and risk summaries, documenting decisions and rationale.
- Approve cases within delegated authority, supporting colleagues where appropriate.
- Build strong relationships with brokers, solicitors and clients, delivering exceptional service.
- Work collaboratively with Sales, Customer Success and Product teams to enhance products and processes.
- Contribute ideas to improve underwriting, technology and the customer experience.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for new products and platform developments.
- Stay up to date with legislation and industry developments through ongoing CPD.
About You
You’ll ideally have experience in one or more of the following:
- Legal Indemnity Underwriting (Residential and/or Commercial)
- Rights of Light Insurance
- Defective Title Insurance
- Estate Administration or Probate Insurance
- Conveyancing or Private Client legal practice
- Specialist legal indemnity broking
You’ll also bring:
- Strong technical underwriting knowledge and sound judgement.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to manage workloads and meet service level agreements.
- Strong relationship-building and communication skills.
- A collaborative approach with a positive, solutions-focused attitude.
- A genuine interest in helping improve products, processes and customer outcomes.
Why Join?
This is a business that invests in its people, encourages innovation and offers genuine flexibility. You’ll join a collaborative team where your technical expertise will influence underwriting decisions, product development and business growth.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary annual bonus (up to 10%)
- Remote or hybrid working
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service
- Birthday off every year
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 5% employer pension contribution (5% employee)
- Life assurance (4x salary)
- Vitality Essentials Healthcare
- Remote GP service
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension adviser meetings
- Discounted gift card scheme
- Ongoing professional development with a minimum of 15 hours CPD each year
If you’re looking to take the next step in your underwriting career with a business that combines technical excellence, flexibility and genuine career development, we’d love to hear from you.
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