Claims Manager - Complex Claims Unit

Manager Claims - CH07AE

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Are you ready to take on a pivotal leadership role within the Complex Claims Unit (CCU)? CCU is a highly specialized home office claim organization responsible for managing the Company's most complex, high-exposure, and long-tail liability claims.

These claims often involve environmental contamination, toxic torts, asbestos, sexual molestation, and other latent bodily injury or property damage exposures, and frequently present complex coverage, liability, causation, allocation, and litigation management challenges spanning multiple years of insurance coverage.

As a Claim Manager, you will lead a team of claim professionals responsible for handling some of the Company's most significant environmental and latent bodily injury matters. You will be accountable for delivering high-quality claim outcomes, outstanding customer service, strong financial stewardship, innovative claim strategies, and the development of a diverse and highly engaged team.

Responsibilities:

• Effectively train, coach, and develop staff to enable them to perform their jobs and achieve individual and professional goals.
• Lead a team responsible for investigating, evaluating, negotiating, and resolving complex environmental, toxic tort, asbestos, sexual molestation, and other long-tail liability claims.
• Provide strategic oversight and direction on coverage, liability, damages, allocation, litigation management, and settlement strategies involving high-severity exposures.
• Drive the development and implementation of innovative claim disposition strategies and pursue timely, effective claim resolutions.
• Monitor claim performance, financial results, reserving accuracy, settlement outcomes, and key operational metrics, identifying trends and implementing appropriate actions.
• Evaluate and communicate emerging industry developments, litigation trends, scientific developments, regulatory activity, and jurisdictional changes that may impact environmental and latent bodily injury exposures.
• Partner closely with Coverage Counsel, Operations, Reinsurance, Underwriting, Actuarial, Product, Risk Control, brokers, agents, outside counsel, consultants, and senior leadership.
• Oversee litigation strategy, including management of outside counsel, experts, consultants, and vendor partners.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality claim handling and exceptional customer service across the team.
• Build and maintain a high-performing, diverse, and inclusive team where individual strengths and perspectives are valued.
• Promote continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance claim handling practices, operational effectiveness, and technological capabilities, including the use of data analytics and AI-enabled tools.

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