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Claims Counsel
Location
Illinois + 3 moreAll locations: Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas
Posted
18 days ago
Salary
$150K - $190K / year
Professional Certificate5 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Own complex claims end-to-end across GL, Cyber, D&O, Property, and Marine/Cargo lines—triaging new matters, confirming coverage, coordinating carrier notices, and driving resolution strategies through to closure.
• Serve as the primary client advocate, translating coverage and litigation issues into clear guidance, managing expectations, and aligning carriers, counsel, and vendors around the client’s best outcome.
• Analyze and negotiate coverage positions, drafting demand and rebuttal letters, challenging denials, and securing optimal defense and indemnity contributions from insurers.
• Oversee litigation and recovery efforts, ensuring defense and coverage counsel strategies align with policy recovery, and leading loss quantification for property, cyber, and other first-party claims.
• Manage external partners and internal team members, setting standards for claims handling, mentoring analysts, and maintaining high-quality, audit-ready files and documentation.
• Deliver insights and reporting through claims data, dashboards, and renewal narratives—identifying trends, coverage gaps, and opportunities to improve client programs and outcomes.
• Continuously improve processes and tools, partnering with Operations and Product to streamline claims workflows, automate documentation, and enhance the client experience.
Job Requirements
- Experienced claims professional with 5–10 years managing complex commercial insurance claims—ideally across GL, Cyber, D&O, Property, and Marine/Cargo—within a carrier, law firm, or brokerage environment.
- Coverage-driven mindset with a J.D. and active bar membership; skilled in analyzing policy wording, drafting coverage positions, and advocating for insureds in high-stakes matters.
- Full-lifecycle operator comfortable owning claims from first notice through resolution, including coverage analysis, litigation oversight, negotiation, and first-party recovery.
- Client-focused communicator who can translate complex coverage and litigation issues into clear business guidance, maintaining calm and credibility with executives during live incidents and negotiations.
- Hands-on leader and mentor able to review and elevate team output, establish standards, and help build playbooks, templates, and scalable claims processes.
- Analytical and process-minded, leveraging data, metrics, and technology to manage performance, improve consistency, and drive efficiency.
- Collaborative and entrepreneurial, thriving in a fast-moving startup setting with strong judgment, humility, and a bias toward action and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation that may include equity
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans for medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs): Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter Savings Account
- Human Interest: 401(k) provider
- Time Off: Sick Leave, Family and Medical Leave, Flexible Time Off
- Paid Holidays: Observance of all major national holidays
- A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation, that also includes catered lunches in the office on Fridays for in-office workers
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture
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