Claims Technical Consultant
Berkley North Pacific Group (a Berkley Company) · Meridian, ID · 4 days ago
Full-time
Responsibilities
- Resolve highly complex commercial property and casualty claims at the highest authority levels.
- Deliver effective and efficient claims resolutions.
- Provide technical leadership within the claims organization.
- Examine and analyze policies, contracts, and claim forms to determine coverage on complex and multi-party claims.
- Determine liability by gathering and analyzing relevant facts and applying applicable law and negligence principles.
- Investigate losses via telephone, correspondence, or on-site inspection.
- Request and review reports such as police reports, fire reports, medical records, and property inspections.
- Review and hire liability and medical experts for litigated and pre-suit claims.
- Utilize independent adjusting services when appropriate.
- Establish and continually reevaluate accurate claim reserves throughout the lifecycle of the claim.
- Manage litigation by assigning counsel, establishing litigation plans and budgets, coordinating defense activities, reviewing settlement potential, and authorizing payments.
- Enter claim data accurately into claim systems for reporting purposes.
- Collaborate on subrogation, arbitration, and salvage recovery.
- Conduct Medicare lien analysis and negotiate liens when applicable.
- Recommend and coordinate with outside legal counsel regarding defense strategy, including settlement or trial decisions.
- Provide technical advice, direction, training, and mentoring to claims staff.
- Attend settlement conferences, depositions, mediations, pre-trial hearings, and trials as needed.
- Contribute to profitable growth by providing risk insights and trends to business units and customers.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge through education, networking, and industry engagement.
- Stay current on legal and coverage trends across jurisdictions.
- Act as a technical expert for internal teams and business partners.
- Provide insights to improve product offerings, risk assessments, and policy language.
- Present complex claims to senior leadership for authority and strategic direction.
Qualifications
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to accurately keyboard and utilize multiple computer systems.
- Ability to perform multiple duties in a fast-paced environment.
- High level of professionalism with internal and external customers.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
- Advanced insurance coverage interpretation skills.
- Proven litigation management skills.
- Effective presentation skills.
- Advanced negotiation experience.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience collaborating in a team environment and building cross-functional relationships.
- Proactively shares and promotes insights.
- Ability to gather perspectives from multiple teams to optimize outcomes.
- Ability to analyze and apply insurance policy components for complex claims.
- Ability to follow reserving processes for indemnity and expense.
- Ability to determine scope and exposure of complex claims.
- Ability to leverage trends and relationships to provide high-quality customer service.
- Strong understanding of financial and actuarial trends and concepts.
- Ability to communicate coverage determinations effectively to customers, clients, and brokers.
Education
- Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree and 15 or more years of experience in the Claims Technical area OR Juris Doctor and 4 or more years of experience in Claims and Litigation Management.
- Must obtain and retain required adjuster licenses.
- Microsoft Office experience required.
- Knowledge of insurance regulations, markets, and products.
- Advanced insurance education preferred such as AIC, CPCU, SCLA.
Additional Company Details
- We do not accept any unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies or firms.
- The company offers a competitive compensation plan and robust benefits package for full time regular employees including: Health, dental, vision, life, disability, wellness, paid time off, 401(k) and profit-sharing plans.
- The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.
Additional Requirements
- Location and Travel: Primary location Meridian, ID.
- Sponsorship Details: Sponsorship not Offered for this Role.