Claims Counsel

About the role

Your Role: You will use your legal experience to provide guidance on complex litigation across various claim types. You will play a pivotal role as a coverage specialist in evaluating and analyzing coverage, overseeing coverage and complex litigation, and providing legal opinions to claims personnel.

Responsibilities

• Serve as internal claims counsel to support claims adjusters.
• Identify, evaluate, and analyze coverage issues.
• Draft comprehensive coverage and denial letters to ensure clarity in communication with policyholders.
• Manage outside counsel in litigated matters.
• Proactively negotiate settlement of claims within evaluation and designated authority levels.
• Perform legal research and provide legal opinions to claims personnel. Keep abreast of insurance coverage case law, trends and experience and prepare summaries for dissemination of information within the company on coverage cases and trends.
• Occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Education: Juris Doctorate (JD).
• Experience: 1 to 5 years of law firm/litigation experience and/or 3-7 years of claims handling experience.
• Technical skills: Good working knowledge of Westlaw and the ability to perform legal research efficiently.

Benefits

One of the advantages of working at USLI is the competitive salary and benefits program we offer full-time and eligible part-time employees. Benefits include performance-based triannual bonuses, medical benefits paid at 100% for full-time employees and 80% for eligible part-time employees, a profit-sharing program, free lunch every day while onsite, and more than 450 annual personal and professional development courses.