Senior Counsel, Insurance

RBC; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian bank in Mississauga seeks a Senior Counsel for their Disputes Management Legal team. The role involves providing legal advice on insurance disputes, drafting legal documents, and overseeing external counsel in litigation. Ideal candidates will have a law degree, bar membership, and 5+ years of insurance defense litigation experience, with proficiency in written French preferred.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Competitive compensation

Dynamic, collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of insurance defense litigation experience, preferably in first party claims.
• Good comprehension of written French.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice regarding various insurance disputes.
• Draft and review legal documents and correspondence.
• Manage external counsel for active litigation.

Skills

Insurance defense litigation experience

Good comprehension of written French

Education

Law degree

Call to the Bar of a Canadian province/territory

Job description

Overview

What is the opportunity?

You will be part of the RBC Law Group supporting RBC Insurance and its various lines of business/corporate entities. As Senior Counsel on the Disputes Management Legal team, you will provide advice with respect to various types of disputes involving primarily life and health insurance, but also with respect to the sale and administration of home and auto insurance, and creditor insurance. While this position is ideally located with the law group team in Mississauga, RBC would also consider candidates who could work in Toronto or Montreal.

Responsibilities

• Providing pre-litigation legal advice to the various RBC Insurance lines of business and corporate entities concerning their rights and obligations, and to assist in resolving disputes, such as providing substantive legal advice concerning the following:
  • Life and Health disputes/complaints related to claims, underwriting, policy rescissions, policy lapses, customer service, etc.
  • The RBC Insurance Agency disputes/complaints related to the sale of home and auto insurance
  • The Creditor insurance disputes/complaints related to operations and claims
• Drafting substantive/positional correspondence, drafting or reviewing legal documents such as court orders, affidavits and release agreements, negotiating settlements with opposing counsel, and reviewing client-facing correspondence
• Assist or lead ad hoc projects and internal investigations as necessary
• Providing legal advice with respect to active litigation or complaints, by proactively managing external counsel with respect to a complex portfolio of:
  • primarily life and health claims related litigation, and possibly also,
  • creditor insurance litigation
  • litigation related to the sale of home and auto insurance

Qualifications

Must have

• Law degree
• Call to the Bar of a Canadian province/territory, and member in good standing with applicable law society
• 5 years+ of insurance defense litigation experience in private practice or with an insurance company, preferably involving experience in first party insurance defense litigation
• Good comprehension of written French

Nice-to-have

• Experience in the area of life and disability claims and litigation
• French language skills, including the ability to participate in business meetings in French
• Civil Law degree

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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