Underwriting Counsel NC - Westcor Land Title Insurance Company

Overview

This role involves analyzing title insurance risks, providing underwriting solutions, and ensuring compliance with applicable laws. The position covers both residential and commercial transactions and includes responsibilities in training, customer service, and business development. The candidate will support established agents and prospects, combining underwriting expertise with sales and business development activities.

Responsibilities

• Analyze title insurance risks, underwriting issues, and regulatory concerns
• Provide underwriting solutions to agents, sales teams, and title examiners in accordance with company guidelines and local, state, and federal law
• Handle underwriting for residential and commercial transactions
• Present training seminars to educate title agents and production staff, both online and in person
• Develop Continuing Education (CE) and Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses for title and attorney agents in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
• Deliver outstanding customer service while making sound underwriting decisions
• Manage a high volume of underwriting inquiries via email and telephone promptly and professionally
• Analyze and respond to indemnity requests
• Call on existing agents to increase wallet share
• Identify new business opportunities through prospecting
• Travel with sales staff, managers, or other underwriters for agent visits across the states
• Collaborate effectively within a remote team environment

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree
• Minimum of 3 years of experience focused on North Carolina real property and title insurance
• Membership in good standing with the North Carolina Bar
• Thorough knowledge of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia real property law and related areas applicable to real property transactions
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong relationship-building, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret instructions in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear
• Frequently required to sit
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

• Moderate noise level
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions

Compensation & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer-paid disability and life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Paid time off and company-paid holidays
• Wellness resources

Location

• This position requires knowledge of and work related to North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia real property law

Note: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the position.