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.

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

Upcoming classes

Exam

Each CIP course has a final exam worth at least two-thirds of the course grade. The exam can be written online with virtual proctoring or in person at one of our exam centres (subject to availability).

Advanced Underwriting