Subrogation Examiner

POSITION SUMMARY: Performs subrogation and recovery tasks within the claims handling guidelines and in accordance with established Best Practices.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identify subrogation opportunities
• Place carriers on notice of subrogation
• Obtain documents supporting subrogation from clients
• Submit demands for subrogation
• Affect subrogation recovery
• Set reserves, post recoveries, track financial elements
• Tasks as directed by leadership

EQUIPMENT OPERATED/USED: Computer, 10-key, printer, copier, fax/scanner machine and other office equipment.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• Education/Experience: High school diploma, GED, 2 years of college or equivalent work experience
• Entry level position.
• Basic proficiency with email applications, as well as common office applications (email, Word, Excel basic, PowerPoint)

Special Requirements:

• Prefer candidates with auto-subrogation recovery experience
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated advanced analytical, decision making, and negotiation skills.
• Computer proficiency.

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to manage relationships in a fast paced environment, while demonstrating problem solving and decision making skills to work with customers.
• Good analytical abilities to review, exercise judgment and evaluate claims in order to make sound decisions with a minimal amount of supervision.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to carry out detailed written or verbal instructions, ability to respond to requests effectively and efficiently and exhibit good common sense.
• An ability to handle assigned claims following company guidelines and industry best practices with a minimal amount of supervision.
• Time management skills, organizational skills and ability to prioritize issues and tasks.
• Ability to effectively operate computer equipment and applications.
• Independence, flexibility and creativity.

Other Qualifications:

• None.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy in this role:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance
• Referral bonus program
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off.
• Paid Holidays

Mental and Physical Requirements: [see separate attachment for a copy of checklist of mental and physical requirements.

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• MENTAL EFFORT

• Reasoning development:

• Solve practical problems; variety of variables with limited standardization; interpret instructions.

• Logical or scientific thinking to solve problems; several abstract and concrete variables.

• Mathematical development:

• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers.

• Arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals, and percentages.

• Language development:

• Ability to compose original correspondence, follow technical manuals, and have increased communication with people in person or on the phone.

• Ability to evaluate technical data.

• Ability to interview job applicants.

• Ability to give direction, provide advice and feedback, and reprimand as necessary.

• PHYSICAL EFFORT

• Physical activity required to perform the job:

Light work:

• Exerting up to 20 pounds or force occasionally.
• Exerting up to 10 pounds frequently.
• Exerting a negligible amount of force constantly to move light objects.
• Frequent sitting, standing, and walking.
• Visual requirement necessary to perform the job:
• Near vision: clarity of vision at 20 inches or less.
• Mid-range vision: Clarity of vision at distances of more than 20 inches and less than 20 feet
• PHYSICAL EFFORT (cont.)

FREQUENCY

• Physical activity necessary to perform the job and frequency (e.g., continually, frequently, or occasionally):

Crouching: Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.

Occasionally

Stooping: Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.

Occasionally

Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

Occasionally

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Occasionally

Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Occasionally

Walking: moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.

Occasionally

Sitting: Body resting in an office chair while performing work, particularly for long periods of time.

Frequently

Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.

Occasionally

Pulling: Using upper extremities to extend force in order to drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Occasionally

Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Occasionally

Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Frequently

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Occasionally

Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which workers must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Continually

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through verbal communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such a when making fine adjustment on machined parts.

Frequently

Repetitive Motion: Substantial movement (motions) of the wrists, hands, and / or fingers.

Frequently

• WORKING CONDITIONS

Disagreeable job conditions to which the employee may be exposed and the frequency (e.g., continually, frequently, or occasionally) of this exposure.

None Known