Melanie Taylor

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Newhall, California 91321

661-***-**** (Home)

661-***-**** (Cell)

E-mail address: iw9t06@r.postjobfree.com

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Over 20 year’s professional experience underwriting

• Extensive experience handling multi-state accounts; and multi lines of insurance(WC, GL and Auto)

• Familiarity with Los Angeles brokerage and local agency community

• Adept at working with numbers and achieving profitable results

• Extensive experience analyzing risks in a detailed-oriented method, in a fast paced work environment

• Experience training and managing junior members of the team in applications and office procedures

• Demonstrated the ability to develop annual business plans as well as analyzing and evaluating results for assigned producers and making the formal presentations

• Computer proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, Windows XP and the Internet

• Excellent organizational and communication skills with both internal and external customers

• Equally skilled working in varied team environments and working independently

• Many years of experience multi-tasking and meeting deadlines in a timely manner

• California Fire and Casualty Broker-Agent License: # 0E42692

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Insurance Company of the West, Calabasas, CA 01/07 - 04/09

Senior Underwriter

• Held responsible for marketing, risk selection, servicing and pricing of new commercial WC accounts

• Accountable for the profitability, growth and retention of current accounts

• Premium size from Twenty-Five Thousand dollars to a Million dollars in premium

• Included servicing, and managing accounts

• Met with agency personnel to maintain and develop relationships

• Handled accounting, audit and safety issues

• Designed retro plans and deductibles

• Reason for leaving: laid off due to the economic conditions of industry

Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Pasadena, CA 06/02 - 01/07

Senior Underwriter

• Serviced, marketed and priced commercial workers compensation for artisan construction contractors

• Premium size from ten thousand dollars to a million dollars in premium

• Worked with most of the major brokerage houses and regional agencies

• Managed accounts; handled accounting, audit and safety issues

• Responsible to carrier to maintain contractual integrity

Insurance Overload assignment at: AIG, Los Angeles, CA 02/02 – 05/02

Temporary Position - Underwriter

• Held responsible for risk selection, servicing and pricing of commercial transportation risks

• Premium size from One Hundred Thousand dollars to a million dollars in premium

• Responsibilities included servicing accounts and managing account servicing accounts

• Managing accounts as well as designed retro plans

Fremont Insurance Company, Glendale, CA 12/98 – 03/02

Senior Underwriter

• Premium size from one thousand dollars to a million dollars in premium

• Responsibilities included servicing accounts and managing accounts

• Marketed, servicing and pricing of large commercial accounts as well as risk selection,

• Working with audit, safety and credit departments as well as designing retro plans

Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, Burbank, CA 03/95 - 08/98

Executive underwriter

• National Accounts International Division- Workers Compensation and Commercial Auto

• Responsible for risk selection servicing and pricing of large commercial risks with foreign ownership or multinational exposures

• Premium size from five hundred dollars to a million dollars in premium

• Responsibilities included designing large deductibles, SIRs, cash flow plans and retro plans

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Wausau Insurance Companies, Los Angeles, CA

Underwriter

• Risk selection, servicing and pricing of large new commercial multi-line casualty accounts

• Responsible for the profitability, growth and retention of GL, Auto, and WC accounts

• Premium size from Twenty-Five Thousand dollars to a Million dollars in premium

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Los Angeles, CA

Underwriter

• Risk selection, servicing and pricing of new commercial multi-line casualty accounts

• Responsible for the profitability, growth and retention of accounts; Gl, Auto, and WC

EDUCATION

University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Bachelor of Arts -- Psychology

CPCU Completed 5 Parts CPCU 510 (Risk Mgmt)

520 (Insurance Comp Ops)

553 (Personal Insurance)

560 (Financial Institutions)

CPCU 552 (Commercial Liability)

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