Reinsurance Underwriter Consultant
Posted Jun 18, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a deal you declined or walked away from. What was your reasoning?
What they are checking: Whether they have the discipline to say no when terms do not fit the strategy.
How have you used data or new methods to get better insight from a reinsurance portfolio?
What they are checking: Whether they can innovate in analysis, which the posting calls out directly.
What would you do
A broker pushes hard for better terms on a renewal with a cedent who had a bad loss year. How do you respond?
What they are checking: Whether they keep underwriting discipline while preserving a valuable broker relationship.
How would you explain to a senior leader why a treaty's price went up when the cedent's own losses were flat?
What they are checking: Whether they can explain market, model and exposure changes in plain business terms.
About the work
Walk me through how you evaluate a cedent's submission for a property catastrophe treaty.
What they are checking: Whether they review exposure data quality, model results, loss history and the cedent's management before pricing.
How do you decide whether to trust a cedent's catastrophe model output?
What they are checking: Whether they check data completeness, secondary modifiers and non-modeled perils rather than taking model output at face value.
What is the difference between experience rating and exposure rating, and when would you lean on each?
What they are checking: Whether they understand both pricing approaches and how to blend them when history is thin.
How do you think about accumulation when two treaties cover the same region?
What they are checking: Whether they consider portfolio concentration, not just each deal on its own.
When would you recommend facultative reinsurance instead of treaty?
What they are checking: Whether they understand the uses of each structure for individual large risks versus whole books.
How does the reinsurance market cycle affect how you price and select business?
What they are checking: Whether they understand hard and soft markets and manage the portfolio through them.
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