Description
Location: Stoke/Hybrid - one day per week at our premises.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday
Davies are looking to recruit an experienced Liability Claims Handler to join our Casualty team based in Stoke. Your role will be to provide a quality claims service on behalf of clients and pro-actively handle claims in accordance with the insurer's claims handling philosophy.
Key Responsibilities
* To establish if cover is in place for the claim
* To record all claims on the digital claims-handling system and ensure that all MI data is consistently and accurately recorded
* To investigate claims either directly via desktop, or by instructing loss adjusters
* To make decisions on liability
* To negotiate claim settlements
* To ensure compliance with all legal timescales and client SLAs
* To build relationships with external clients and stakeholders
* To attend if required, client claim review meetings either in person when required or on Microsoft Teams platform
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
* Liability Claims Handling experience
* A professional and adaptable communication style – both written and verbal
* Efficient administrative skills
* Strong numeracy, literacy, and IT skills
* A proactive attitude, and an enthusiastic approach
* An excellent customer service manner
* The ability to work as part of a team
* A willingness to take individual responsibility
* The capability to adapt and be flexible
* Experience of policy wording and terms and conditions, indemnity processes
* Modern claims practice
* The Civil Procedure Rules
* MOJ protocols;
* Current case law and assessment of personal injury valuation and negotiations
* Ability to deliver outcomes in a fast-paced environment
Job Benefits
Career & Purpose
* Davies Innovation Lab
* Leadership training programme
* Funding for professional qualifications
* Thrive at Davies; learning opportunities
Environmental & Social
* The Davies Foundation
* Local charity funding
* Pennies To Heaven
* Employee Resource Groups
* Employee volunteering programme
Financial Health
* Pension, 5% employee and 5% employer contribution
* My Choices at Davies provides; High Street discounts and Financial wellbeing hub
* Life assurance: x4
* Refer a Friend
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Lease car salary sacrifice
* Davies Incentive Plan
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
Mental, Physical & Emotional Wellbeing
* Wellbeing centre; move, munch, money & mind focus
* Discounts with 100's of UK retailers
* EAP; 24/7 confidential helpline
* 25 days holiday, increases to 26 days after 5 years and 27 after 10 years
* Flexible working; hybrid, work from home or join a collaborative office space
* Dress for your day
* Inclusive employment policies eg. Menopause, fostering friendly, fertility, sabbatical policy and baby loss and miscarriage
* Flexible benefits include; holiday purchase plan and a opportunity to purchase heath cash plan and BUPA dental plan
About Davies
We are a specialist professional services and technology firm, working in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses.
We help our clients to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform and grow. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.
Our global team of more than 8,000 professionals operate across ten countries, including the UK & the U.S. Over the past ten years Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 20-fold, investing heavily in research & development, innovation & automation, colleague development, and client service. Today the group serves more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.