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Location
Van Wert, OH; Dublin, OH; Alpharetta, GA; Irving, TX
Work Model
Hybrid or Remote based on location
Position Type
Full time - salary
Description
As an Internal Coverage Counsel - Claims, you will join a high-impact, in‑house legal role where your coverage expertise will shape smarter claims decisions, influence underwriting strategy, and drive consistency across the business. You’ll tackle complex commercial and personal lines matters, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and build tools and guidance that elevate how coverage decisions are made.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership and Culture: Supports operational teams and senior management by providing timely, consistent, and defensible coverage guidance aligned with policy intent and claim handling best practices.
- Centralized resource: Serves as a centralized internal resource for coverage interpretation, promoting consistency across claim teams, jurisdictions, and lines of business.
- Stakeholder communication: Communicates clearly and proactively with Claims, Underwriting, Insurance Product, and other stakeholders to enable effective risk decisions and reduce friction created by inconsistent coverage positions.
- Legal governance: Promotes sound legal governance, including appropriate management of attorney‑client privilege and documentation practices in claims and coverage consultations.
- Claims Coverage Support: Provides legal analysis and guidance on personal lines and complex commercial lines claims involving coverage questions, including interpretation of forms, endorsements, exclusions, conditions, tenders, additional insured issues, and priority/other insurance disputes.
- Correspondence standardization: Reviews and standardizes key coverage correspondence, including reservations of rights, coverage position letters, denial letters, non‑waiver agreements, and tender response communications.
- Research and recommendations: Conducts targeted legal research and prepares written coverage assessments and recommendations for claim professionals and leadership, including identification of escalation triggers and extra‑contractual exposure considerations.
- Work‑product development: Develops and maintains reusable work product (templates, playbooks, issue‑spotting tools, and guidance notes) to improve quality and speed of coverage decisioning.
- Intake and triage: Implements and supports an intake, triage, and prioritization approach for coverage requests; establishes service expectations and feedback loops with claim teams.
- Outside counsel management: Manages the use of outside counsel for novel, high complexity, or high exposure coverage matters; scopes assignments appropriately, enforces budget discipline, and captures lessons learned for internal knowledge sharing.
- Training: Delivers training to claim professionals on recurring coverage issues, quality documentation, and best practices for defensible coverage communications.
- Insurance Product and Underwriting Support: Provides coverage and form interpretation support to Insurance Product and Underwriting on personal lines and commercial lines to enable consistent underwriting intent and claim outcomes.
- Form and endorsement review: Participates in form and endorsement reviews, offering recommendations to improve clarity, reduce ambiguity, and minimize preventable coverage disputes.
- Insight communication: Identifies recurring coverage issues and claim dispute drivers and communicates actionable insights to Product and Underwriting, including opportunities for wording clarification or process improvements.
- Cross‑functional alignment: Participates in cross‑functional working sessions to align coverage interpretation, underwriting strategy, and claims handling practices as the organization grows or expands into new markets.
- Claims Compliance Support: Provides targeted guidance to support regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and adherence to claims handling standards, including documentation, timeliness, and required notices.
- Medicare claims compliance: Supports Medicare‑related and other claims compliance obligations as applicable by providing process guidance and training to reduce operational risk.
- Compliance tools: Assists with development of practical compliance tools and reference materials that improve consistency and reduce avoidable handling defects.
Required Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school.
- Active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 8 years of experience in insurance coverage, claims legal support, and/or insurance litigation with substantial commercial lines property and casualty exposure.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior in‑house experience at a property and casualty insurer supporting claims operations and/or insurance product teams.
- Experience supporting both personal and commercial lines product development, forms, endorsements, or underwriting coverage consultation.
- Familiarity with multi‑state claims handling requirements and both personal and commercial lines coverage trends.
- Insurance industry designation(s) (e.g., CPCU) or other relevant credentials.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to translate legal and policy language into practical guidance for claim professionals and business partners.
- Demonstrated ability to produce clear, well‑reasoned written analysis and draft high‑quality coverage correspondence.
- Deep knowledge of commercial lines coverage analysis, including policy interpretation, exclusions and conditions, additional insured/contractual risk transfer issues, tenders, allocation, and priority of coverage concepts.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey complex legal concepts clearly to non‑lawyers and influence outcomes across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong legal research and analytical skills with sound judgment and discretion in managing sensitive matters and attorney‑client privileged communications.
- Operational mindset with the ability to standardize and improve workflows, templates, and guidance to increase consistency and efficiency in coverage decisioning.
- Strong collaboration skills across Claims, Underwriting, Insurance Product, Compliance, and external partners; ability to manage competing priorities and deliver timely guidance in a fast‑paced environment.
- Ability to travel occasionally for business needs, training, mediations, or significant claim reviews, including overnight as required.
- Ability to understand Central Insurance’s policies and processes.
Total Rewards
Central establishes base pay based on several factors including labor market data and an evaluation of candidate qualifications relative to role requirements. Base pay is one component of a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support employees’ financial, health, career, and retirement objectives. Central provides extensive health and wellness benefits to promote flexibility, work‑life balance, and long‑term financial security.
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Job Info:
- Company: Central Insurance
- Position: Internal Coverage Counsel – Claims
- Work Location: Van Wert
- Country: US
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