Claims Handler - Motor

Job Introduction

DAC Beachcroft’s Claims Solutions Group is the market-leading claims law firm, providing specialist claims, health, safety and environment and motor prosecutions services to insurers and corporate clients. We positively impact our clients’ bottom line through the delivery of the highest quality service, best case outcomes, and genuine value for money and differentiated services.

Given the size of the team and number of clients we work with, there is a real opportunity for growth and development.  Progression can either be by technical development, building client relationships and/or progression to supervisor or managerial role. 

An exciting opportunity has now arisen for a Claims Handler to join the team in Newport on a fixed term contract.  

Role Responsibility

To provide a timely, professional and high-quality service to clients in the management of volume pre- litigated cases in our motor department.

After the required level of training and support our teams are expected to:

• Negotiate claims for liability and damages on pre litigation cases within authority limits
• Pro-actively handle claims to ensure delivery of a focused claims service
• Ensure strategies reflect commercial reality of case value.
• Comply with internal and external service level agreements.
• To record timely and accurate management information.
• Maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions and reading appropriate publications.
• Handle confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols.
• Hit their individual targets (which are set based upon work type and experience).
• Act as a point of contact for clients, demonstrating a level of knowledge and skill commensurate with experience.
• Support marketing and business development activity within the team (e.g. attending marketing events, client training, clinics and shadowing days). 

The Ideal Candidate

Please note that:

• Some experience of working in an insurance environment (particularly motor) is desirable but not essential; and
• Knowledge/previous experience of case management is desirable but not essential.

A successful candidate must have:

• Good understanding of claims handling practice and strategies
• IT skills - Be IT literate with a good working knowledge of Excel and Word.
• Prioritisation & Organisation skills – The ability to organise their own time, recognise what's a time pressure, what's important and when to ask for help.
• Analytical skills – The ability to critically look at factual evidence, identify what is not right/out of the ordinary.
• Commercial sense – The ability to know the principle or law but also know when is it worth pursuing it.
• Interpersonal skills – The ability to get on with a team, speak to a customer on the phone and meet a client.
• Resilience – The ability to stand their ground in a telephone negotiation and to receive feedback.
• Aptitude to learn – The ability to retain knowledge and put into play new skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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