Vice President, Excess Casualty Claims

Company Details

From middle market to Fortune 500 companies, Berkley Custom’s team is committed to providing excellent service and a consistent approach to meet the needs of their brokers and their customers, bringing specific expertise in excess casualty as well as a variety of targeted primary and excess programs.

They Seek To Outperform Competitors With Focus And Deep Understanding Of Their Client’s Priorities And By Developing Creative Risk Solutions To Meet Their Long-term Needs. Their Key Differentiators Include The Following

EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIPS – Berkley Custom works exclusively the wholesale brokerage community as well as their program partners, and continually builds upon long established relationships with a passion for superior service for their appointed producers.

INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS  – Berkley Custom attracts and retains professionals with significant experience in their field, many with over 25 years in the business. Their culture values and promotes deep industry knowledge, integrity, excellence, and respect.

LONG-TERM APPROACH TO ACCOUNTS  – Berkley Custom continually seeks partners for the long term who share their values and risk management discipline.

Long-term relationships have been their management’s trademark in over 30 years of serving customers in the E&S and Program marketplace. Their team is dedicated to serving the varied casualty exposure needs of their brokers and their customers. By truly understanding risk exposures in a constantly changing global environment, they can better work with you to keep risk placement recommendations current and responsive.

The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Responsibilities

The Vice President, Excess Casualty Claims, will have responsible to handle all aspects of high exposure claims arising on excess policies from inception to resolution. Key functions include but are not limited to:

• Handle complex, high exposure lead and high excess involving single-event bodily injury, property damage, construction defect and multiple policy year complex multiple district tort litigation.
• Analyze and interpret policy language and handle claims involving complex and/or litigated coverage issues.
• Management of complex litigation, including investigation of coverage, liability and damages and development and execution of litigation management and claim resolution plans in high exposure tort claims.
• Recommend and establish case reserves.
• Effectively present claims in roundtable discussions to senior management.
• Timely and accurately draft required case evaluation and other required reports.
• Negotiate claim resolutions against elite adversaries.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
• Juris Doctor strongly preferred.
• 15+ years excess commercial claims experience.
• Prior extensive complex claims experience preferred.
• Superior presentation skills.
• Extensive knowledge of litigation process on a nationwide basis.
• Mastery of excess and umbrella technical claims handling techniques and knowledge.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of coverage, claims handling, investigation, and evaluation, including liability and damage analyses.
• Ability to analyze, develop and execute claim resolution plans.
• Proven negotiation success in resolving complex, high exposure claims.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
  
  

Additional Company Details

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiting agencies or firms.

The company offers a competitive compensation plan and robust benefits package for full time regular employees including:

• Base Salary Range: $162K-$200K
• Eligible to participate in annual discretionary bonus
• Benefits include Health, dental, vision, dental, life, disability, wellness, paid time off, 401(k) and profit-sharing plans
  
  

The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiting agencies or firms.

The company offers a competitive compensation plan and robust benefits package for full time regular employees.

Sponsorship Details

Sponsorship not Offered for this Role