Construction Defect Adjuster

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Sedgwick

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10,000+ employees

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Construction • Consulting • Healthcare

Sedgwick is a global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits, and integrated business solutions. They help people and organizations by managing and mitigating risk with solutions in accident, health, disability, unemployment compensation, and liability claims administration, among others. Sedgwick offers services such as claims administration, building consulting, forensic accounting, and forensic engineering. Their specialties include property restoration, brand protection, and loss prevention across several industries, including agriculture, construction, and environmental sectors. The company emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as well as environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.

📋 Description

• Handle complex, technically challenging claims on automobile, homeowner, and excess liability policies • Adjust claims involving complex coverage issues, liability, damages, evidence, and legal issues • Develop exposures and evaluate injury claims based on damages, insurance contracts, company policies, and applicable state laws • Investigate and evaluate coverage, liability, and damages involving serious and catastrophic injuries and other legal issues • Refer suits to counsel timely and evaluate changes in exposure through discovery • Consider costs and strategic plans to prepare for trial or determine settlement capability • Manage defense counsel in litigation involving serious, complex, and litigated claims and complex coverage scenarios • Formulate effective resolution plans while focusing on indemnity and expense leakage • Evaluate coverage and draft reservation-of-rights and coverage-denial letters • Maintain proper reserves on all pending claims • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• State mandated adjusting licenses as required • Eight (8) years of related experience, including personal lines claims, evaluating coverage, and drafting coverage letters, or equivalent combination of education and experience required • Experience with commercial lines claims and litigation in multiple states preferred • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred • Insurance designations such as CPCU, AIC, ARM preferred • Knowledge of affluent market segment • Strong knowledge of tort theories, legal concepts, negotiation strategies, and litigation management • Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills • PC literacy, including Microsoft Office products • Analytical and interpretive skills • Strong organizational skills • Excellent interpersonal skills • Excellent negotiating skills • Ability to create and complete comprehensive, accurate, and constructive written reports • Ability to work in a team environment • Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies • Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously and meet deadlines • Travel as required

🏖️ Benefits

• Work-life balance • Reasonable accommodations when applicable and appropriate • Equal Opportunity Employer • Drug-Free Workplace