This position is a critical member of Nationwide ’s Alternative Risk, Reinsurance, and Insurance Claims legal center of excellence within the Office of the Chief Legal Officer (OCLO), supporting complex matters across the Nationwide enterprise. The role provides specialized legal and regulatory counsel on alternative risk financing strategies, reinsurance transactions, and insurance and reinsurance claims, including related coverage, regulatory, governance, and external audit matters for Property & Casualty and Financial Services businesses. The successful candidate will bring deep insurance industry experience and sound judgment to enterprise‑level risk management and high‑impact legal matters.
Alternative Risk Financing and Reinsurance Transactions
Provide legal counsel on sophisticated reinsurance and alternative risk structures supporting Nationwide ’s risk transfer and capital management strategies, including:
- Lead and support complex reinsurance transactions, including structuring, drafting, review, and negotiation of reinsurance treaties, facultative arrangements, fronting agreements, trust agreements, and related ancillary documents.
- Advise and support alternative risk financing solutions, including captives, structured programs, insurance‑linked securities, catastrophe bonds, and other bespoke risk transfer mechanisms.
- Advise on transactional and operational issues involving reinsurance intermediaries, program administrators, general agents, third party administrators, trusts, collateral arrangements, and multinational insurance programs, including coordination with actuarial, finance, risk, and treasury stakeholders.
- Provide counsel on legal, regulatory, and commercial considerations impacting reinsurance transactions, including licensing, collateral, credit for reinsurance, tax, intermediary relationships, as well as formation, governance, regulation, and ongoing administration of captive insurers and other reinsurance vehicles.
- Navigate cross‑border and offshore regulatory frameworks (including Bermuda and other jurisdictions) working collaboratively with subject matter experts in tax, privacy, sanctions, and other specialty legal teams.
Corporate Risk Management and Regulatory Advisory
Support enterprise risk management through legal guidance on insurance programs, governance, and compliance, including:
- Provide legal counsel on a broad range of property and casualty insurance products, including general liability, auto liability, property, workers’ compensation, excess and surplus lines, and management specialty lines (E&O, D&O, fiduciary liability). Draft and negotiate manuscript policy provisions and endorsements as needed to address unique risk exposures.
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate legal and enterprise risk across the organization, partnering with business, risk, finance, and compliance stakeholders to de