The Underwriting & Compliance Counsel leads title insurance operations, oversees regulatory compliance, manages teams, and advises on legal issues across multiple states.
Position Overview:
As Underwriting & Compliance Counsel, you will play a critical leadership role supporting a multi-state title insurance company and its affiliated agencies. This role blends legal, operational, and regulatory responsibilities: you will act as a title underwriting resource, oversee compliance and licensing functions, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure that the company remains in good standing with all applicable regulatory bodies. You will serve as a strategic advisor and hands-on contributor across underwriting, licensing, and insurance compliance.
What You’ll Do:
Underwriting & Title Operations
- Serve as a title expert and key legal advisor to operations, sales, and client engagement teams for title commitments and policy issuance.
- Provide practical, solutions-oriented guidance on complex or novel title and closing issues.
- Interpret and apply underwriting standards and guidelines to support consistent, risk-based decisions.
- Deliver training to internal teams on title risk, compliance, fraud prevention, and legal/regulatory changes.
- Lead a team of title officers, managing quality, turnaround time, and adherence to service-level standards.
- Oversee title search operations, including vendor management, quality control, and process improvement.
- Oversee Underwriter audits to ensure compliance with all applicable standards.
Licensing & Compliance Oversight
- Manage outside vendors that lead companywide licensing functions for individual agents and agency entities, including new applications, renewals, appointments, affiliations, and terminations.
- Maintain Designated Licensed Producer (DLP) relationships and ensure accurate, up-to-date records across internal systems and regulatory filings.
- Monitor and document state-specific licensing and appointment requirements; ensure full DOI compliance.
Statutory & Regulatory Compliance
- Manage outside vendors to ensure timely and accurate statutory filings for the title insurance company and affiliated agencies across 35+ states.
- Submit required filings through the NAIC and directly with state insurance departments.
- Oversee secretary of state corporate filings for all company entities (insurance and non-insurance).
- Coordinate responses to regulatory data calls and manage submission to relevant authorities.
- Support regulatory examinations and DOI inquiries by gathering and organizing required documentation.
Top Skills
Licensing
Regulatory Compliance
Risk Management
Title Insurance
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