Insurance Defense - General Attorney in Birmingham, AL

In-House

Birmingham, AL

Insurance Defense - General Attorney in Birmingham, AL

Attorney

3-5 yrs required

No

**Job Title:**

Corporate Counsel

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Manage extra-contractual, direct-action, and class-action litigation against the company.
- Provide legal support for any department within the company.
- Conduct thorough legal research and analysis of all referred matters.
- Direct further investigation as needed and make recommendations to appropriate personnel.
- Effectively manage assigned litigation, including selecting appropriate defense counsel and monitoring developments in discovery.
- Approve the use of outside vendors and monitor expenses.
- Evaluate the settlement potential of each case, requesting authority from management when required.
- Review adequacy of reserves for both extra-contractual indemnity and extra-contractual expenses and recommend reserve adjustments to management.
- Attend settlement conferences, mediations, arbitrations, depositions, and trials when required by the courts or management.
- Monitor and potentially direct third-party claims and lawsuits that meet specified criteria for Corporate Litigation referral or create potential extra-contractual exposure to the insured and the company.
- Adhere to reporting requirements dictated by Corporate guidelines and State Codes and regulations.
- Prepare reports outlining potential extra-contractual exposure and case resolution relied upon by senior financial officers and General Counsel for accounting, reserving, and reporting to the SEC and shareholders.

**Education and Experience Information:**

- Law degree and a license to practice law in at least one state in the United States.
- Ability to perform complex legal analysis and research.
- Capability to thoroughly analyze complex claims and legal issues, and provide legal and coverage analysis, advice, risk assessment, guidance, and oversight to members of the Field Claims organization, including Casualty, and the Claims Litigation Department.
- Effective communication skills for conveying legal and coverage analysis, advice, risk assessment, guidance, and oversight both orally and in writing to Field Claims, including Casualty, and Claims Litigation employees, management, executives, and other internal company customers at all levels.
- Experience and expertise in providing comprehensive written analysis, opinions, and strategic guidance to Claims Staff at all levels is preferred but not required.
- Understanding of good-faith claim-handling practices and extracontractual obligations is preferred but not required.
- Familiarity with and understanding of insurance law and practices, and with insurance coverage and form policy provisions is preferred but not required.
- Understanding of legal issues, and familiarity with caselaw, legislation, and regulations in states where the company conducts insurance business is preferred but not required.
- Experience and demonstrated skills with legal research tools such as LexisNexis, WestLaw, and other available legal-research resources.
- Licensure by a state bar.
- CPCU designation preferred.
- Ability to complete extensive, complex written reports, legal opinions, and letters.
- Verbal skills to effectively communicate with multiple parties on complex issues.
- Ability to handle bad faith cases, theft and fraud cases, class actions, and other complex litigation involving the company directly and/or giving rise to actual or potential extra-contractual exposure to the company.
- The selected candidate will be required to complete 4-6 weeks of training in-office, post-training the selected candidate will convert to a hybrid schedule out of the Birmingham, AL office.
- Sponsorship is not accepted for this opportunity.

**Salary Information:**

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