Claim, Legal

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. 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. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$151,500.00 - $250,000.00

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Bond & Specialty Insurance (BSI) provides management and professional liability, cyber, crime insurance, and surety bonds to or on behalf of businesses of all sizes. The BSI Claim Counsel team conducts thorough investigation, analysis, evaluation, and disposition of claims and claim litigation to achieve superior customer service and to optimize claim results. As a valued member of our team, in addition to claim, you also will provide legal advice to our underwriting colleagues and non-attorney claim colleagues, and participate in BSI claim strategic initiatives. Travelers' Cyber Claim Team is responsible for handling claims focusing on cyber privacy and security breach incident response, computer crime, infrastructure attacks and restoration, notification to affected parties and regulators, business interruption, consumer privacy liability, and identity fraud/theft. The First-Party Cyber Claim Team partners with and supports business units including Private-Non-Profit, Public Companies, Financial Institutions, Insurance Companies, Investment Advisors, and Professional Liability.

What Will You Do?

•    Manage a team of claim professionals and counsel.
•    Analyze, investigate, and resolve BSI claims of high levels of severity with oversight from claims management.
•    Prepare and present reports for management that accurately reflect loss development, potential/actual financial exposure, reserve adjustments, coverage issues, and claim and recovery strategies.
•    Retain, monitor, and manage outside counsel actively utilizing litigation management plans and budgets.
•    Communicate with underwriting on significant claim exposures.
•    Identify all recovery opportunities and coordinate recovery efforts with the Recovery Management Unit and Claim management.
•    Travel to and attend mediations, settlement conferences, claim conferences, field office visits, trials and depositions.
•    Refine policy interpretation/coverage analysis skills including drafting coverage opinions with case law included.
•    Negotiate settlements/resolutions, review releases and settlement agreements, including confidentiality and non-disclosure provisions.
•    Support underwriting marketing efforts, including participation in broker and account visits and risk mitigation seminars and authoring customer-focused white papers and articles.
•    Monitor marketplace conditions, conduct research, and draft reference materials to inform claim and underwriting colleagues on law impacting Travelers’ underwriting and claim decisions.
•    Obtain and maintain required adjusters’ licenses.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Eight or more years of relevant legal or claim handling work experience.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work through conflict and resolve issues with a professional demeanor.
• Ability to make sound decisions and negotiate terms and conditions within designated authority limit.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate coverage determinations.
• Time management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities with an attention to detail, data and analytics.
• Ability to build, foster, and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with colleagues, customers, and business partners.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Juris Doctorate Degree.
• Properly licensed, registered or authorized, and in good standing, to practice law in the jurisdiction in which you will be working.
• Five years of relevant legal experience.