Legal Counsel
Elevance Health
Claim Counsel, Professional Liability
Travelers
full-time
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Location: Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $106,300 - $175,400 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Follow operational policies to analyze, investigate, and resolve BSI claims of varying levels of severity with moderate supervision from claims management.
- Prepare and present reports for management that accurately reflect loss development, potential/actual financial exposure, reserve adjustments, coverage issues, and claim and recovery strategies.
- Retain, monitor, and manage outside counsel actively utilizing litigation management plans and budgets.
- Communicate with underwriting on significant claim exposures.
- Continue to develop the ability to identify all recovery opportunities and coordinate recovery efforts with the Recovery Management Unit and Claim management.
- Travel to and attend mediations, settlement conferences, claim conferences, field office visits, trials and depositions.
- Professional Liability specific: Refine policy interpretation/coverage analysis skills including drafting coverage opinions with case law included.
- Strengthen the ability to negotiate settlements/resolutions, review releases and settlement agreements, including confidentiality and non-disclosure provisions.
- Support underwriting marketing efforts, including participation in broker and account visits and risk mitigation seminars and authoring customer-focused white papers and articles.
- Monitor marketplace conditions, conduct research, and draft reference materials to inform claim and underwriting colleagues on law impacting Travelers’ underwriting and claim decisions.
- Obtain and maintain required adjusters’ licenses.
Requirements
- Five or more years of relevant legal or claim handling work experience (less experience may be considered at the Associate Claim Counsel level).
- Accountants, Real Estate, Lawyers or Miscellaneous Professional Liability claim, coverage or litigation experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively work through conflict and resolve issues with a professional demeanor.
- Ability to make sound decisions and negotiate terms and conditions within designated authority limit.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate coverage determinations.
- Time management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities with an attention to detail, data and analytics.
- Ability to build and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with colleagues, customers, and business partners.
- Two years of relevant legal experience.
