Senior Environmental Claims Strategist

AXIS (AXIS Capital); New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Tuition reimbursement

Paid vacation

Retirement plans

Job summary

AXIS Capital is hiring a Senior Claims Specialist – Environmental Claims for the North America Claim Team in New York. You will manage complex primary and excess environmental claims arising under specialty environmental insurance products and collaborate with underwriting, legal, actuarial, and reinsurers to deliver timely, technically sound outcomes.

You will lead claim strategy development, coordinate with defense counsel, environmental consultants, and other vendors, and contribute to

Qualifications

• Significant experience handling complex environmental, toxic tort, or long-tail claims.
• Ability to analyze environmental policies, coverage issues, liability, damages, allocation, and complex factual records.
• Strong written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Assess complex environmental claims to determine coverage, liability, damages, reserves.
• Manage claims across environmental insurance products (pollution liability, site-specific), related coverages.
• Develop and execute claim strategies for remediation costs, bodily injury, property damage, regulatory actions.
• Analyze policy wording, historical operations, allocation issues, trigger and timing, and interaction of primary/excess.
• Direct defense counsel, coverage counsel, environmental consultants, experts, investigators, and other vendors.
• Identify material developments, maintain accurate reserves, elevate significant claims per guidelines.
• Manage legal, expert, and vendor costs with Litigation and Vendor Management teams.
• Communicate clearly with executives, brokers, reinsurers, actuaries, underwriters, insureds, counsel.
• Partner with Underwriting and Claims leadership to identify trends and improve policy language.
• Lead or support initiatives to enhance claims processing efficiency and data integrity.
• Participate in associations/education to stay current on environmental law and claims developments.
• Serve as mentor and technical resource to claims professionals.

Skills

Environmental claims

Complex claims analysis

Reserves management

Vendor management

Leadership/mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory knowledge

Communication skills

Cost control

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Professional designations beneficial

Job description

AXIS Capital is hiring a Senior Claims Specialist – Environmental Claims for the North America Claim Team in New York. You will manage complex primary and excess environmental claims arising under specialty environmental insurance products and collaborate with underwriting, legal, actuarial, and reinsurers to deliver timely, technically sound outcomes.

You will lead claim strategy development, coordinate with defense counsel, environmental consultants, and other vendors, and contribute to