Chief Litigation Officer

Position Details

This role will focus on supporting Mercy’s litigation and risk management functions.

Skills Desired

• Litigation Risk and Liability Management: Deep expertise identifying, assessing, and mitigating claims, litigation and liability exposures across clinical, operational, regulatory, and strategic domains.
• Malpractice and Complex Claims Oversight: Significant experience overseeing medical malpractice risk, catastrophic and high-severity claims, systemic loss trends, class actions, and other material exposure matters, including reserving strategy and claims valuation.
• Government Investigations and Complex Litigation: Experience managing high-risk litigation and investigations, including False Claims Act/qui tam matters, regulatory enforcement, and significant commercial disputes.
• Risk Financing and Insurance Strategy: Expertise managing self-funded liability programs, insurance funding and reserving strategies, excess and commercial insurance coverage, and enterprise insurance program design, including evaluation of alternative risk financing structures such as captive insurance arrangements.
• Claims Governance and Litigation Management: Ability to oversee claims governance, reserve and settlement strategy, outside counsel management, litigation portfolio performance, and related processes to align claims outcomes with organizational objectives.
• Patient Safety and Loss Prevention: Experience partnering with patient safety and quality functions to support loss prevention strategies and reduce preventable harm.
• Regulatory and Governance Leadership: Ability to advise executive leadership and boards on risk governance, emerging exposures, insurance oversight, and enterprise risk strategy.

Qualifications

• JD required
• Bar membership in Missouri (or other state(s) where Mercy operates)
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in professional liability litigation, complex claims management, insurance coverage, risk financing, or related healthcare litigation leadership roles.