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About the Role

Under general supervision, this position is responsible for investigating, evaluating, reserving, negotiating and resolving assigned serious and complex Specialty claims. Provides quality claim handling throughout the claim life cycle and serves as an expert technical resource to other claim professionals, business partners, customers, and other stakeholders. This role is eligible for a sign-on bonus.

Responsibilities

• Directly handle assigned severe claims with a full damage value typically ranging from $500,000 to several million dollars.
• Provide quality customer service and ensure file quality, timely coverage analysis and communication with insured.
• Directly investigate each claim through prompt and strategically-appropriate contact with appropriate parties.
• Interview witnesses and stakeholders; take necessary statements, as strategically appropriate.
• Complete outside investigation as needed per case specifics.
• Actively engage in the identification, selection and direction of appropriate internal and/or external resources for specific activities required to effectively evaluate claims.
• Verify the nature and extent of injury or property damage by obtaining and reviewing appropriate records and damages documentation.
• Maintain claim files and document claim file activities in accordance with established procedures.
• Develop and employ creative resolution strategies.
• Responsible for prompt and proper disposition of all claims within delegated authority.
• Negotiate disposition of claims with insureds and claimants or their legal representatives.
• Recognize and implement alternate means of resolution.
• Manages litigated claims.
• Develop litigation plan with staff or panel counsel, including discovery and legal expenses, to assure effective resolution and to satisfy customers.
• Utilize evaluation documentation tools in accordance with department guidelines.
• Proactively review Claim File Analysis (CFA) for adherence to quality standards and trend analysis.
• Utilize diary management system to ensure that all claims are handled timely.
• At required time intervals, evaluate liability and damages exposure.
• Establish and maintain proper indemnity and expense reserves.
• Provide guidance to underwriting business partners with respect to accuracy and adequacy of, and potential future changes to, loss reserves on assigned claims.
• Recommend appropriate cases for discussion at roundtable.
• Attend and/or present at roundtables/ authority discussions for collaboration of technical expertise resulting in improved payout on indemnity and expense.
• Actively and enthusiastically share experience and knowledge of creative resolution techniques to improve the claim results of others.
• Apply the Company's claim quality management protocols, and metrics to all claims; document the rationale for any departure from applicable protocols and metrics with or without assistance.
• Apply litigation management through the selection of counsel, evaluation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 10+ years claim handling experience with 5-7 years experience handling serious injury and complex liability claims.
• Extensive working level knowledge and skill in various business line products.
• Excellent negotiation and customer service skills.
• Advanced skills in coverage, liability and damages analysis with expert understanding of the litigation process in both state and federal courts, including relevant case and statutory law and procedure; expert litigation management skills.
• Extensive claim and/or legal experience and thus the technical expertise to evaluate severe and complex claims.
• Able to make independent decisions on most assigned cases without involvement of supervisor.
• Openness to the ideas and expertise of others and actively solicits input and shares ideas.
• Thorough understanding of commercial lines products, policy language, exclusions, ISO forms and effective claims handling practices.
• Demonstrated strong coaching, influence and persuasion skills.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills are required so as to understand, synthesize, interpret and convey, in a simplified manner, complex data and information to audiences with varying levels of expertise.
• Can adapt to and support cultural change.
• Strong technology aptitude; ability to use business technology tools to effectively research, track, and communicate information.
• Four years bodily injury litigation claim handling experience or comparable claim litigation experience.

Skills

• Analytical Thinking - Advanced
• Judgment/Decision Making - Advanced
• Communication - Advanced
• Negotiation - Advanced
• Insurance Contract Knowledge - Advanced
• Principles of Investigation - Advanced
• Value Determination - Advanced
• Settlement Techniques - Advanced
• Litigation Management - Advanced
• Medical Terminology and Procedural Knowledge - Advanced

Experience Level

• 10+ years claim handling experience
• 5-7 years experience handling serious injury and complex liability claims
• Four years bodily injury litigation claim handling experience or comparable claim litigation experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree

Salary/Compensations

• $104,000.00 - $171,700.00

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum.
• Paying it Forward Savings Program: When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account.
• Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs.
• Mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

About the Company

• Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise.
• By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years.
• Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration.
• Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.
• Travelers has more than 30,000 employees in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
• Our 10 Diversity Networks celebrate culture and communities and create spaces for all employees through powerful forums for dialogue and support.
• Travelers has been recognized by organizations such as G.I. Jobs and Military Times.
• Our employees are valuable assets to their hometowns, volunteering for important causes each year.

Equal Opportunity

• Travelers is an equal opportunity employer.
• We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
• In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
• If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
• Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the included level in this posting.