Environmental Claims Advisor

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It's what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

The primary purpose of the Environmental Claims Advisor role is to analyze complex or technically difficult environmental and complex liability claims, provide resolution of highly complex nature and/or severe injury claims, coordinate case management within company standards, industry best practices and specific client service requirements, and manage the total claim costs while providing high levels of customer service.

Key responsibilities include:

• Analyzing and processing complex or technically difficult environmental liability claims
• Conducting or assigning full investigation and providing reports of investigation pertaining to new events, claims, and legal actions
• Analyzing applicable complex liability insurance coverage and policies
• Negotiating claim settlements up to designated authority levels
• Calculating and assigning timely and appropriate reserves to claims
• Recommending settlement strategies and bringing structured settlement proposals as necessary
• Coordinating legal defense and monitoring counsel for compliance with client guidelines
• Using cost containment techniques and strategic vendor partnerships to reduce overall claim costs
• Identifying and investigating possible fraud, subrogation, contribution, recovery, and case management opportunities
• Representing the company in depositions, mediations, and trial monitoring as needed
• Communicating claim activity and processing with clients and maintaining professional client relationships
• Ensuring claim files are properly documented and claims coding is correct
• Referring cases to supervisors and management as appropriate
• Delegating work and mentoring assigned staff

Qualifications:

• 8 years of claims management experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred
• Licenses as required
• Professional certification as applicable to line of business preferred
• In-depth knowledge of environmental liability insurance principles and laws
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• PC literacy, including Microsoft Office products
• Analytical and interpretive skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a team environment

The salary range for this role is $155,000. A comprehensive benefits package is offered, including medical, dental, vision, 401k and matching, PTO, disability and life insurance, employee assistance, flexible spending or health savings account, and other additional voluntary benefits.