Claims Manager – (2601VZ)
Referral Bonus
: 2,000.000000
Description
1. Claim Adjudication and Compliance
- Manage claims specialists, ensuring proper evaluation of claims by guidelines.
- Prepare correspondence to customer; claim approved or denied.
- Work closely with clients through the claims process, providing assistance with coverage, investigation, loss valuation, settlement, and communication with carriers and TPA's.
- Prepare narrative for Program Executives, Underwriters, and other parties, as necessary, describing status of all our selected claims, routinely and upon request.
- Route large loss notices and underwriting alerts to Underwriters and Program Executives
- Coordinate requests for policy information from claims TPA and carriers.
- Coordinate and manage external carrier insurance company audits.
2. Loss Control
- Prepare quarterly premium and loss reports for specified programs, which may include getting loss reports out of carriers' system and reviewing notes in carrier system.
- Review, analyze and make recommendations on the overall claim trends for the book of business.
- Prepare quarterly Stewardship report for specified programs.
- Field loss control questions from clients or internally, work with carrier and client to establish annual loss control goals.
- Partner with carriers to effectively manage on-line training courses and other safety material (on the website, in handouts, templates, checklists, etc.)
- Review of new loss notices and carrier coverage position letters prior to issuance, provide insurance coverage verification, consult with client on large/severe losses and adjusters on large reserves/settlements or lawsuits.
- Coordinate quarterly claim reviews with client and insurance company.
- Speak at client seminars and develop webinars regarding claims handling, claim trends and discuss ways to reduce or mitigate claims.
- Coordinate with carrier regarding the clients who should receive on site loss control visits and then review all safety reports from those visits and ensure compliance with any recommendations
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in insurance, business, finance, accounting, economics or related program or equivalent education and/or experience.
- Strong understanding of commercial property/casualty claims handling
- Ability to compile, analyze and interpret file information.
- Ability to professionally interact with businesspersons of all levels and succinctly communicate information and strategies.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office software.
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
- Customer Service Focused
- Loss Control or Risk Analysis Experience preferred.
- Ability to work independently and with minimal instruction and little direct oversight.
- Demonstrated professional, tactful negotiation and persuasion skills to achieve objectives.
- Organizational and time management skills to prioritize heavy workload to meet time sensitive deadlines.
- Project management ability, analytical mindset, solution oriented, self-motivated, and likes to take initiative to find new and better ways of doing things.
- Some travel required
- This role is predominately based in our Overland Park office but is eligible for the company's hybrid remote program.
Primary Location
: KS-Overland Park - Affinity
Schedule
: Full-time
Hiring Manager
: Kristen Patti
Organization
: Lockton Affinity
Anticipated Closing Date
:Ongoing|Ongoing