L&I Subrogation Specialist (Program Specialist 4)

About the role

Make a difference as a part of the Crime Victims Compensation Program (CVCP) by reducing hardship for victims of violent crime. As the Subrogation Specialist, you’ll identify and manage reimbursement of claim costs from insurance settlements and lawsuits, pursue restitution from offenders, investigate, manage, and make decisions on claims involving recoveries.

Responsibilities

• Review, analyze, and use independent judgment to take appropriate action regarding any recovery.
• Requests and processes settlement documents related to first, third party, and/or civil recovery from the attorney or insurer and reviews the settlement release to ensure CVCP’s right to restitution is not compromised.
• Negotiates and receives reimbursement from insurance companies when the victims are not attorney represented.
• Performs legal research, interprets RCW 7.68, case law, legal opinions and court rules supporting CVCP’s right to recovery.
• Evaluates factual and legal issues of liability (tort and case law) and determines whether to approve settlements that do not fully reimburse claim expenses, or whether to exercise discretionary authority to compromise CVCP’s lien, or negotiate settlement action with attorneys and insurers.
• Represents CVCP’s recovery interest in mediations and settlement conferences.
• Issues first and third party Order and Notices confirming the settlement distribution to the victim’s attorney or unrepresented victim and monitors the case for payment of CVCP’s share of the settlement.
• Initiates legal actions such as notice of withhold and deliver, wage garnishments, judgment warrants, subpoenas, and complex collections actions.
• Manages and monitors claims with pending settlements from insurance or lawsuits for financial recovery; requests restitution from criminal offenders; if needed, performs collections on delinquent accounts.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree AND Two years of experience including planning, policy analysis, coordination and consultation with a variety of public and private agencies, organizations, and/or levels of government, supervisory experience, and/or legal insurance setting involving complex claims or personal injury issues.
• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

Desired

• Two (2) years or more dealing with subrogation, restitution, and collections.
• Knowledge of RCW 7.68.050 and RCW 9.94A.753.
• Paralegal Certification from an approved paralegal program.

Supplemental Information

To help you maintain a proper work-life balance, teleworking is one of the work schedule options for this position. L&I also offers flexible custom work schedules. State employees who meet the qualifications will become eligible for a generous retirement package at the end of the employee’s career. Click on the “Benefits” tab to learn more.

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For this position, telework is permitted full time, but not permitted during training. The assigned duty station for this position is Tumwater, Washington. For positions where in-office work is necessary, the frequency of telework will be discussed with the supervisor of the position at the time of offer.

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