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Assistant File Handler - Litigated Asbestos, Bolton
Client: Davies
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Job Category: Other
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EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 6d11f4f0ad7d
Job Views: 6
Posted: 22.06.2025
Expiry Date: 06.08.2025
Job Description:
To assist Lead File Handler in handling Asbestos claims. To manage and progress claims for the Lead File Handler in accordance with strategies and action plan as determined by the Lead File Handler.
Key Responsibilities
* Review documents and prepare reports
* Deal with disclosure
* Review evidence (including medical / personnel records / Companies House records)
* Conduct investigations with Insured / obtain witness statements
* Instruct Counsel / Experts
* Research
* Attend conferences and Trials with Counsel
* Handle routine correspondence
* Attend court appointments including own advocacy
* Provide initial and further reports / advice to clients when requested
* Liaise directly with Claims Handlers and Manager
* Follow Clients instructions
* Engage in Client development when required
* Assist team in achieving goals and objectives
* Meet targets
* Ensure compliance with SRA Standards & Regulations
* Adhere to Keoghs Values
Working Hours: 35 hours/week, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm, with 1 unpaid hour for lunch. Location: Bolton, Parklands Office.
Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
* Experience with Asbestos disease cases
* Initiative and flexibility
* Good listening and communication skills
* Attention to detail and concentration
* Self-organization and prioritization
* Ability to work under pressure and targets
* Enthusiastic and hardworking
* Good IT skills
* Ability to work within Keoghs shared behaviour framework
Our culture emphasizes sustainability and success for our people and clients, with our four core values: connected, dynamic, innovative, and success together.
Benefits include Davies Incentive Plan, holiday entitlement, private medical insurance, health cash plan, wellbeing support, death in service, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, discounts, and more.
We are a professional services and technology firm partnering with insurance and regulated businesses, helping manage risk, transform, and grow. With over 8,000 professionals across ten countries, Davies has grown significantly, serving over 1,500 clients in insurance, finance, and public sectors.
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