# General Adjuster - NE Atlanta

**Company**: Sedgwick
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Insurance
**Industry**: Insurance

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## Description

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.

As a General Adjuster - NE Atlanta, your primary purpose will be to investigate claims against insurance or other companies for personal, casualty, or property loss or damages, and attempt to effect out-of-court settlement with claimant.

**Responsibilities:**

- Handle complex losses locally unassisted up to designated authority, and assist on larger losses, including handling accounting-based losses (business interruption and stock)

- Examine claim form and other records to determine insurance coverage

- Interview, telephone, or correspond with claimant and witnesses regarding claim

- Consult police and hospital records, and inspect property damage to determine extent of company's liability and varying methods of investigation according to type of insurance

- Estimate cost of repair, replacement, or compensation

- Prepare report of findings and negotiate settlement with claimant

- Recommend litigation by legal department when settlement cannot be negotiated

- Attend litigation hearings

- Revise case reserves in assigned claims files to cover probable costs

- Assist in preparing loss experience report to help determine profitability and calculate adequate future rates

**Additional Responsibilities:**

- Perform other duties as assigned

- Support the organisation's quality program(s)

- Travel as required

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred

- Must have earned the IIA-AIC designation and be actively pursuing another professional insurance designation

- Appropriate state adjuster license is required

- Five (5) years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required

**Skills & Knowledge:**

- Strong oral and written communication, including presentation skills

- PC literate, including Microsoft Office products

- Demonstrated commitment to timely reporting

- Strong customer service skills

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Attention to detail and accuracy

- Good time management and organisational skills

- Ability to work independently or in a team environment

- Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies

**Work Environment:**

- When applicable and appropriate, consideration will be given to reasonable accommodations

- Mental: Clear and conceptual thinking ability; excellent judgment and discretion; ability to handle work-related stress; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously; and ability to meet deadlines

- Physical: Must be able to stand and/or walk for long periods of time; kneel, squat or bend; work outdoors in hot and/or cold weather conditions; climb, crawl, stoop, kneel, reaching/working overhead; lift/carry up to 50 pounds; push/pull up to 100 pounds; drive up to 4 hours per day; and have continual use of manual dexterity

## Skills

### Required
- IIA-AIC designation
- state adjuster license
- Microsoft Office products
- strong oral and written communication
- presentation skills
- customer service skills
- interpersonal skills
- time management
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- another professional insurance designation

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