Description
This role offers an excellent opportunity to work in our Complex Injury Claims Team, assisting with large loss claims. In this role you will assist 2 large loss lawyers on complex, high value RTA multi track claims. Experience of indemnity, MIB, liability and complex medical issues is preferred and excellent attention to detail essential.
Your work will be supervised and feedback given. The role also includes the need to engage with sophisticated senior claims handlers in long-standing insurance clients.
In this role you may also be required to assist your Lead Lawyer in activities which enhance and develop Keoghs’ profile. This role has the potential for excellent development opportunities if desired.
Key Responsibilities
You will work as part of a team progressing each file from receipt of papers from the insurer client to resolution of the claim. The role will include:
- Working with the Large Loss Lawyers to manage a caseload of large loss injury claims injury claims including high value multi-track, large loss and catastrophic injury claims involving complex orthopaedic injury, Chronic Pain, brain injury, spinal cord injury, and fatal claims.
- Communicating with insurer clients, dealing with their queries and updating them as the matter progresses.
- Forensic analysis of voluminous quantum evidence, preparing chronologies, identifying anomalies and other relevant information across various sources and categories of evidence.
- Using your existing knowledge of complex injury symptomology to identify relevant issues within medical records in order to instruct medical experts, drawing key issues to their attention.
- Critical analysis of sources of liability evidence and identifying any gaps.
- Drafting concise technical advice on all aspects of claim handling to include advice on indemnity, liability, quantum and causation issues and claims resolution for strategy discussion with the Lead Lawyer.
- Proactively identifying next steps required on matters, discussing those aspects with the Lead Lawyer and taking action as agreed.
- Interviewing witnesses and drafting statements.
- Liaising with parties involved in claims including the insured, insurer, witnesses etc.
- Drafting pleadings and applications.
- Instructing counsel and attending conferences, JSMs, mediations both remotely and in person.
- Attend court in person or by telephone, attend trials, settlement conferences etc as required.
- Delivery of agreed performance targets and quality standards.
- Delegate assigned tasks for a Complex Injury Paralegal and be fully engaged in their development in terms of technical ability and achievement of objectives.
- Maintaining case managements systems with up-to-date management information for clients.
- To ensure compliance with the SRA standards and regulations
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- You will be a qualified solicitor, CILEX or have proven legal experience in a similar role
- Experience of indemnity, MIB, liability and complex medical issues is preferred
- You will be a well-rounded lawyer with a deep understanding of case law, litigation practice & process and Court Practice Rules
- You will be fully engaged in the development of yourself and others
- You will have the ability to deliver an outstanding service to clients with excellent attention to detail
Ref: DAV-0389
Benefits
- Davies Incentive Plan
- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
- Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) - will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.
- Simply Health Care Cash Plan
- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
- Death in Service
- Critical Illness Cover
- PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance)
- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Tech Scheme*
- Season Ticket Loan*
- Gym Flex*
- Access to Online Discount Sites
- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
- Discounts at local retail outlets
* after successfully completing probation
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 6,500 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.
