Lawyers Professional Liability Examiner Job

Employer Name: Chubb & Son, a division of Federal Insurance Company	SpiderID: 2933767
Location: Simsbury, Connecticut	Date Posted: 10/26/2009
Wage:	Category: Insurance
Job Code: 7154

Job Description:
For more than 125 years, Chubb & Son, a division of Federal Insurance Company has been delivering exceptional property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses and individuals around the world.

Today, we are the 11th largest property and casualty insurer in the United States and have a worldwide network of some 120 offices in 28 countries staffed by 10,600 employees. The Chubb Corporation reported $50.6 billion in assets and $14.1 billion in revenues in 2007. According to Fortune magazine, Chubb is the 176th largest U.S.-based Corporation. The magazine also includes Chubb in its list of "America''s Most Admired Companies." Forbes listed Chubb as one of America''s 400 Best Big Companies.

Chubb has maintained its reputation and financial stability with underwriting expertise, unparalleled customer service, unique industry-specific specialization and a deep respect for all of our employees.

Our award winning Claims Department has an exciting career opportunity for an individual who enjoys independent problem solving and utilization of their interpersonal and collaboration skills to build relationships with insureds, agents and internal business partners. This examiner position in the Lawyers E&O Claim team will be based in our Simsbury, CT office.

The job responsibilities include the following:

• Deliver superior customer service and satisfaction through effective interactions with insureds, agents and internal business partners.
• Contribute to a collaborative environment by consistently demonstrating teamwork, high motivation, positive behavior and effort to achieve goals and objectives.
• Provide accurate and timely loss assessments.
• Make decisions regarding payment amounts and claim settlements.
• Timely and appropriately communicate with internal and external customers relative to account trends, service issues and large losses.
• Consistently demonstrate fundamentally sound claim handling by achieving compliance in the areas of investigation, coverage, loss assessment, and case management.
• Ensure the establishment, documentation, and execution of appropriate strategies to bring early resolution to assigned claims.
• Recognize and properly address coverage issues, potential fraud, and subrogation; follow guidelines relative to completion of reporting forms.
• Keep all files on a current diary system in order to timely monitor new developments, follow up on outstanding requests, update management, and respond to all other diary activities.

Job Requirements:
Competencies/Skills Required:

The successful candidate will possess the following qualities:
• A personal commitment to superior performance that adds value to our company.
• An ability to work effectively with a wide variety of people.
• An aptitude for evaluating, analyzing and interpreting information.
• A willingness to use creative thinking to overcome obstacles as well as the ability to adapt to new ideas and situations.
• The ability to multi-task along with basic time management and organizational skills. The ability to independently set priorities and meet deadlines.
• An ability to work well in teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage defense counsel and litigation.
• Ability to negotiate and implement resolution strategies.
• Ability and willingness to travel.

Education & Experience:

• College degree required.
• Prior claim handling experience is a plus.
• Knowledge and understanding of the legal system and litigation also a plus.

Chubb prides itself on the ability to provide all employees with an extraordinary work environment which promotes teamwork, diversity and incentives for those who exceed expectations. Chubb has been recognized as one of the top 50 companies for diversity by Diversity Inc magazine, one of America''s most admired companies by Forbes, and one of the top 100 companies to work for by Fortune.

Chubb''s compensation and benefit plans work together to create a Total Rewards Program for our employees that is among the best in our industry. As a global organization, we work hard to achieve our goal of providing flexible and competitive compensation and benefits packages in each local market in which we operate. Our goal is to exceed average market practices for our performers. For more information about Chubb and our benefits, visit our website at www.chubb.com.

All interested applicants must apply online at http://www.chubb.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=7154&CurrentPage=1

Job Criteria:
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Position Type: Full-Time Permanent
Years of Experience Required: 1
Education Required: Bachelors
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Contact Information:

Contact Name: Chubb Support	Company Type:
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City: Simsbury
State: Connecticut
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