Legal Counsel Risk & Litigation

Functional Accountabilities

• Respond to litigation discovery requests from outside counsel including conducting email archive searches and coordinating with other CNMC departments to collect information to respond to discovery.
• Manage subpoenas that are served on CNMC and/or CNMC employees.
• Process all 90-day notices and complaints.
• Set up depositions of CNMC personnel.
• Provide initial analysis of new lawsuits to CRO upon assignment.
• Provide initial review and analysis of medical records to CRO upon assignment.

Risk Management

• Take risk management reports and triage appropriately based on analysis of facts.
• Staff internal investigations into risk management events as needed.
• Work with Risk Managers to investigate and handle visitor injury claims.
• Review consent paperwork presented by clinical staff for sufficiency and escalate consent authority questions to Director of RMCover risk on-call yearly schedule.
• Advise Risk Managers as needed.
• Manage business risk event investigations and risk event RCA/ACA.
• Staff Enterprise Risk Management workgroup.

Litigation Committee Meetings

• Manage all day to day activities associated with PRC meetings.
• Prepare monthly litigation grid for Legal Affairs meetings.
• Prepare other reports for Legal Affairs meetings as assigned.

Claims Management

• Ensure all incident reports are entered into the system in a timely manner and that LAFs are prepared as needed.
• Timely report any serious or potentially compensable claim to Risk Manager.
• Maintain loss run.
• Maintain litigation and claims files in good order.
• Maintain settlement and litigation contract documents in good order.
• Review correspondence from outside counsel and maintain electronic filings of litigation reports.
• Enter claims information into electronic claims system and prepare reports as requested.

Employment Litigation Claims and Loss Run

• Manage all employment litigation claims and employment loss run.
• Prepare draft position statements for CRO review.
• Attend mediations with CRO.
• Coincide with outside counsel as directed.
• Interface with Human Resources Department to investigate, manage, and respond to all employment law claims.
• Report employment matters to insurance as directed by CRO.
• Oversee Worker’s Compensation function and directly supervise Worker’s Compensation Coordinator.
• Manage employee safety issues.

Pay

Salary Range: $129,355.20-$215,612.80

Schedule

M-F