Universal Shield Insurance Group
Senior Litigation Counsel
Universal Shield Insurance Group, Dublin, Ohio, United States, 43016
As a Senior Litigation Counsel, you will manage and advise on complex legal and coverage matters, including identifying, analyzing, and resolving coverage issues, providing legal opinions to claims personnel, and overseeing coverage and extra-contractual litigation with outside counsel. You will work closely with general counsel and claims management on discovery, corporate witness preparation, and reporting claims developments to senior management. This role involves developing and revising outside counsel guidelines, staying updated on insurance coverage trends, assisting in policy language drafting with internal teams, and training claims personnel. Additionally, you will handle inquiries from insurance departments, work with the SIU to investigate potential fraud, and may eventually oversee direct reports.
Skills/Abilities:
Identify, evaluate, analyze, and research coverage issues; provide coverage and legal opinions to claims personnel or as otherwise requested by management.
Manage coverage and extra-contractual litigation, including the referral/assignment to and management/oversight of outside counsel.
Work with general counsel, claims management, and/or outside counsel in overseeing discovery issues and the preparation of corporate witnesses.
Report to senior management on claims information and developments as appropriate.
Assist in ongoing development of outside panel counsel and the development/revision of outside counsel guidelines.
Keep abreast of insurance coverage case law, trends, and developments and prepare summaries of matters of particular import for dissemination within the company.
Develop and present training programs to internal claims personnel and participate in roundtable conferences with claims personnel on legal coverage matters.
Assist in drafting/revising policy language and the implementation of policy forms by working closely with the underwriting, corporate compliance, corporate legal, and product development teams and by serving on forms committees.
Review and assist in responding to inquiries and/or complaints from departments of insurance regarding claims handling.
Work with the Company’s outside SIU vendor to investigate potential fraud.
May eventually be responsible for oversight of one or more direct reports.
Other duties as assigned by senior executive team, including general counsel and claims management.
Qualifications and Educational Requirements:
Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
License to practice law.
Knowledge, experience and understanding of civil liability and litigation with a minimum of 7-10 years of handling civil matters.
About Universal Shield Insurance Group:
Guided by an entrepreneurial spirit, Universal Fire & Casualty Insurance Company (UFCIC) is a hybrid property and casualty insurer and insurtech that provides innovative insurance solutions to underserved markets for small businesses. Via online state-of-the-art agency portals and direct to consumer retail (B2C) and business to business (B2B) websites, we design our products intuitively and device agnostic to accelerate competitive underwriting decisions for our partners and customers. UFCIC targets property and casualty insurance for small businesses that are managed in such a way that they deserve to qualify for, and enjoy, the additional advantages in security and coverage offered by an admitted product. While the surplus market, as a last resort channel, can provide a reduced coverage form at a higher price, UFCIC turns this dynamic upside down. Via a higher standard of acceptance, expert underwriting rules, advanced analytics, machine learning, and external data sources to supplement standard risk information, the majority of UFCIC’s target business can “graduate” from the surplus lines and be provided with a superior coverage form in the admitted marketplace. For those risks that necessitate the surplus market, our company uses our E&S carrier, Shield Indemnity, for risk placement. UFCIC also serves the specialty surety bond marketplace by providing a variety of proprietary, cutting-edge, and competitively priced surety products available through efficient direct and agent based technology enabled portals. Via UFCBonds.com (B2C), customers can buy License and Permit bonds direct, as well as other types of surety bonds, with zero commissions and fees – savings are up to 25% compared to online agency based surety bond platforms. For business to business (B2B), our BondRamp.com platform serves our distributors for surety bond placement. Additionally, UFCBonds.com and BondRamp.com issue most bonds instantly and are available 24x7x365 and accessible by computer, tablet, or mobile device. UFCIC is part of the Universal Shield Insurance Group (www.universalshield.com). Universal Shield is composed of Universal Fire & Casualty Insurance Company (www.ufcic.com) - an admitted carrier - and Shield Indemnity Inc. (shieldindemnity.com) - an excess and surplus carrier.
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Skills/Abilities:
Identify, evaluate, analyze, and research coverage issues; provide coverage and legal opinions to claims personnel or as otherwise requested by management.
Manage coverage and extra-contractual litigation, including the referral/assignment to and management/oversight of outside counsel.
Work with general counsel, claims management, and/or outside counsel in overseeing discovery issues and the preparation of corporate witnesses.
Report to senior management on claims information and developments as appropriate.
Assist in ongoing development of outside panel counsel and the development/revision of outside counsel guidelines.
Keep abreast of insurance coverage case law, trends, and developments and prepare summaries of matters of particular import for dissemination within the company.
Develop and present training programs to internal claims personnel and participate in roundtable conferences with claims personnel on legal coverage matters.
Assist in drafting/revising policy language and the implementation of policy forms by working closely with the underwriting, corporate compliance, corporate legal, and product development teams and by serving on forms committees.
Review and assist in responding to inquiries and/or complaints from departments of insurance regarding claims handling.
Work with the Company’s outside SIU vendor to investigate potential fraud.
May eventually be responsible for oversight of one or more direct reports.
Other duties as assigned by senior executive team, including general counsel and claims management.
Qualifications and Educational Requirements:
Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
License to practice law.
Knowledge, experience and understanding of civil liability and litigation with a minimum of 7-10 years of handling civil matters.
About Universal Shield Insurance Group:
Guided by an entrepreneurial spirit, Universal Fire & Casualty Insurance Company (UFCIC) is a hybrid property and casualty insurer and insurtech that provides innovative insurance solutions to underserved markets for small businesses. Via online state-of-the-art agency portals and direct to consumer retail (B2C) and business to business (B2B) websites, we design our products intuitively and device agnostic to accelerate competitive underwriting decisions for our partners and customers. UFCIC targets property and casualty insurance for small businesses that are managed in such a way that they deserve to qualify for, and enjoy, the additional advantages in security and coverage offered by an admitted product. While the surplus market, as a last resort channel, can provide a reduced coverage form at a higher price, UFCIC turns this dynamic upside down. Via a higher standard of acceptance, expert underwriting rules, advanced analytics, machine learning, and external data sources to supplement standard risk information, the majority of UFCIC’s target business can “graduate” from the surplus lines and be provided with a superior coverage form in the admitted marketplace. For those risks that necessitate the surplus market, our company uses our E&S carrier, Shield Indemnity, for risk placement. UFCIC also serves the specialty surety bond marketplace by providing a variety of proprietary, cutting-edge, and competitively priced surety products available through efficient direct and agent based technology enabled portals. Via UFCBonds.com (B2C), customers can buy License and Permit bonds direct, as well as other types of surety bonds, with zero commissions and fees – savings are up to 25% compared to online agency based surety bond platforms. For business to business (B2B), our BondRamp.com platform serves our distributors for surety bond placement. Additionally, UFCBonds.com and BondRamp.com issue most bonds instantly and are available 24x7x365 and accessible by computer, tablet, or mobile device. UFCIC is part of the Universal Shield Insurance Group (www.universalshield.com). Universal Shield is composed of Universal Fire & Casualty Insurance Company (www.ufcic.com) - an admitted carrier - and Shield Indemnity Inc. (shieldindemnity.com) - an excess and surplus carrier.
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