Senior Claims Handler, Casualty & Property

Overview

Kennedys is seeking an experienced Claims Handler to join their Casualty & Property Claims Handling team. The role involves managing pre-litigated claims from the initial notification of loss, offering a bespoke cradle-to-grave claims handling service through to litigation. The role will involve handling a varied case load of liability claims (personal injury and property damage) and first-party property claims of unlimited value for insurers, MGAs, Syndicates and self-retained policyholders, primarily in the London market.

The Kennedys' Leeds team is a major force in the market and is ranked in the top tier for defendant personal injury by the legal directories. We act on complex and high-profile cases, led by experienced Partners recognized as market leaders in this sector. We are often instructed on UK cases requiring cross-border quantum investigations via our international offices. We avoid unnecessary lawyering and are focused on working in partnership with our clients and delivering modern solutions, including our in-house R&D capability and award-winning product suite of technological and process innovations.

• Insurers
• Lloyds Syndicates
• MGAs
• Loss adjusting firms
• Self-retained policyholders

• Third party personal injury and property damage and first party property claims handling across various industry sectors including social care, leisure, construction and retail, in the UK, Republic of Ireland and internationally.

• 5+ years' experience of defendant personal injury and property claims working either in a legal or an insurance environment.
• Track record of capably handling a caseload of pre-litigated fast-track and multi-track value liability and property (ideally EL/PL and medical malpractice) type claims.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

* where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 47 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles.

A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

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