Claims Adjuster, Trucking BI

About the role

• We are seeking highly organized and customer-focused Commercial Transportation Resolution Specialists to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for communicating with customers on the phone, educating and helping the customer work through their claim to the best possible outcome. This role will also be responsible for handling an inventory of claims, triaging critical claims, and delivering service to all constituents of the claim. The claims you will handle will be commercial transportation (interstate trucking) related. 
  
  The ideal candidate has a willingness to work through and design process that supports the quickest claim resolution with the best outcome.
  
  Resolution Specialists are:
• Highly motivated and growth-oriented. Excited by the prospect of building a tech-driven claims org.
• Passionate specialists who care about the customer and their experience.
• Empathetic. Exercises empathy and patience towards everyone interacted with. 
• Sense of urgency - AT ALL TIMES. That does not mean working at all hours.
• Creative. Finding the right exit ramp (pun intended) for the resolution of the claim that is in the client’s best interest. 
• Conflict-enjoyer. Conflict does not have to be adversarial, but it HAS to be conversational. Working toward a win/win claim resolution.
• Curious. Wanting to know the whole story so the right decisions are made early and take action to prompt a quick resolution. 
• Anti-status quo. Not just wishing things were done differently but taking the appropriate actions to ensure it. 
• Communicative. Professional written and oral communication with all parties to a claim.
• And did we mention a sense of humor? Claims are hard enough as it is. 
  
  

What you'll do

• Provide prompt, courteous, and high-quality customer service to all policyholders and claimants by answering customer calls, texts, and/or emails in a timely and accurate manner. 
• Gather necessary information from customers to initiate the claim and explain policy, coverage, and educate them on the claims process and next steps.
• Manage an inventory of claims, establish initial reserves for all potential exposures, and adjust as appropriate throughout the claim.
• Work with the APD team on the handling of property damage claims. 
• Recognize recovery opportunities with regard to subrogation and salvage, as well as total loss.
• Ensure compliance with specific state regulations, policy provisions, and standard operating procedures.
• Negotiate appropriate settlements with claimants, insureds, and attorneys within approved payment authority.
• Provide input to continuously develop claims guidelines, best practices, and process improvements.
• Know the claims inside and out and ensure outside investigative service providers, including independent appraisers and defense counsel, are guided based on what we need to move the file to a quick and appropriate resolution. All the while keeping our clients updated where needed.
• Engage in learning opportunities to build knowledge of claims statutes, recent/updated court decisions impacting the claims function, current internal guidelines, and policy changes and modifications.

Location Requirement

Candidates must reside in an eligible U.S. state throughout employment. We are unable to hire candidates residing in California, Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories, or outside the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (lack of one should not stop you from applying if you possess all the other qualifications)
• Active insurance adjuster’s license by way of a designated home state, or home state
• Minimum of 5 years of experience concentrated in commercial transportation (interstate trucking) claims adjusting, ideally with:
• • • Third-party bodily injury, including catastrophic losses
    • UM/UIM bodily injury
    • Litigation experience
    • MCS90 and its state equivalents
• Willing to obtain all licenses within 60 days, including completing state-required testing.
• Knowledge of state regulations, policy provisions, and standard operating procedures.
• Willingness to travel for clients and claims need
  
  Benefits

• Generous health-insurance package with nationwide coverage, vision, & dental
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
• Competitive PTO policy – we want our employees fresh, healthy, happy, and energized!
• Generous family leave policy after 8 months of continuous work
• Work from anywhere to facilitate your work life balance
• Apple laptop, large second monitor, and other quality-of-life equipment you may want. Technology is something that should make your life easier, not harder!