Specialty P&C and marine insurer for small-to-mid-market businesses
Core Specialty is a mid-size specialty insurance underwriter built on Azure cloud infrastructure (.NET, C#, React, Angular) with heavy investment in compliance automation (SOX program, audit remediation) and risk modeling. The hiring mix—dominated by senior finance, insurance, and underwriting roles—reflects an underwriter scaling its broker relationships and product breadth (lawyers E&O, surety bonds, professional liability) while tightening underwriting profit and portfolio discipline.
Notable leadership hires: Policy Compliance Lead
Core Specialty underwrites property, casualty, marine, and specialty lines for small-to-mid-market businesses through its subsidiary insurers. The company operates from Cincinnati, OH with 1,001–5,000 employees across insurance, underwriting, claims, finance, legal, and compliance functions. Its commercial model is broker-led: it serves independent and regional brokers by handling underwriting complexity, reinsurance procurement, and claims administration. The operating focus spans loss-ratio management, premium budgeting, risk transfer analysis, and capital optimization for rating agencies.
Core Specialty runs on Azure (App Service, Functions, SQL Database, Cosmos DB) with .NET/C# backends and React/Angular frontends. GitHub handles version control and CI/CD via GitHub Actions. Terraform and Docker provide infrastructure-as-code and containerization.
Core Specialty is expanding into professional liability and lawyers E&O markets, building broker partnerships, implementing surety bond platform features, and executing a company-wide SOX compliance program. It is also refining loss-ratio planning, reinsurance procurement models, and underwriting workflow efficiency.
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