Senior Claims Counsel

21 hours ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States CNA Full time
Job Title: Senior Claims Counsel

CNA is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Claims Counsel to join our Financial Lines Claim team. As a Senior Claims Counsel, you will be responsible for handling complex, high-severity financial lines claims, requiring legal analysis of complicated liability, damages, and coverage issues.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Handles complex, high-severity financial lines claims, requiring legal analysis of complicated liability, damages, and coverage issues.
  • Drafts coverage letters, memos, and reports, and represents CNA in settlement negotiations with independent authority to commit CNA.
  • Interacts with multiple parties, including insureds, brokers, counsel, claimants, and mediators, and directs and manages coverage counsel and coverage litigation against CNA.
  • Partners with underwriters, product counsel, and actuary to effectively respond to policy wording and/or claim-related inquiries, and collaborates directly with brokers and customers to address similar issues.
  • Meets with brokers and existing or prospective clients as part of business marketing, growth, and retention strategies, and works with senior claim, underwriting, and product leadership to develop and analyze new products and to identify, evaluate, and track claim trends and issues.
  • Provides technical guidance to and oversight of junior staff members, develops and presents training on key legal and industry issues/trends for the financial lines team, and represents CNA on panels at industry conferences.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree with JD, and admission to the bar of at least one state.
  • Typically a minimum of twelve years of claims and/or legal experience with a proven track record of exceptional claim results.
What We Offer:

CNA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to help our employees - and their family members - achieve their physical, financial, emotional, and social wellbeing goals. For a detailed look at CNA's benefits, please visit CNA's website.



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