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Southfield, Mi, Us

Provide strategic counsel and legal advice to the Chief Claims Officer and other executive business leaders regarding litigation management and best claims handling practices while managing multiple high-exposure teams. Specifically, develop and lead teams of coverage attorneys and complex claims handlers while also managing the claims department’s legal spend and panel counsel relationships. Develop and execute processes to mitigate the department’s largest risks and extra-contractual exposures.

Southfield, Mi, Us

Led four teams: Complex Claims, Coverage Attorneys, Claims Operations, and Claims Business Analysis. • Provided strategy, oversight, and guidance for special projects, vendor management, and training. Developed department KPIs. • Following careful analysis, streamlined processes and workflows, standards, metrics, reporting, and training.• Closely monitored matters of significant risk and communicated strategies to minimize risk with business leaders and reinsurers.

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Recruited with a small team to build a startup department to manage large loss commercial casualty claims. Established operating guidelines and KPIs, built culture, developed key internal and external relationships. Led team responsible for resolving company’s highest exposure/most complex commercial casualty claims in the western US region, including commercial general liability, farm, commercial auto, commercial umbrella. Develop strategic responses to court cases against company and policyholders. Collaborated with leaders to establish processes, identify metrics for adjuster/unit performance.

Southfield, Mi, Us

Participated in global decision-making regarding structure and operation of Casualty Claims Department. Led two units: Adjusters of complex casualty claims and In-House Counsel unit that supported claims and underwriting units while managing company’s coverage and bad faith litigation.

Southfield, Mi, Us

Led multiple litigated claims teams tasked with adjusting casualty claims involving litigation against insureds. Closely supervised AVPs to select strategies for complicated or high exposure matters. Regularly reported to Chief Claims Officer, business leaders and reinsurers on matters of significant exposure and important business trends that could impact risk.

Southfield, Mi, Us

Led a team of Claims Attorneys charged with managing litigated claim files. Supervised all files involving highly complex litigation or particularly catastrophic losses to ensure that loss reserves were properly set and appropriate strategies pursued for investigation and legal defense where necessary. Closely monitored changes in average legal spend per file and average loss paid.

Southfield, Mi, Us

Managed Insurance Defense Litigators throughout western US for litigated claims re: commercial general liability, professional liability, garage-keepers, and ocean marine policies. Handled matters re: catastrophic personal injury, oil and gas industry injury, habitability, products liability, legal malpractice, and real estate errors and omissions. Negotiated in-person at large mediations in a variety of jurisdictions. Managed all claims in real estate errors & omissions and lawyer professional liability programs in CA, TX, FL.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Provided coverage advice to insurers re: commercial general liability, professional liability, errors & omissions, construction defects, property, public entity, & business auto policies. Represented insurers in declaratory judgment actions and defended against bad faith claims. Defended attorneys in malpractice claims. Worked on several complex appellate matters, including extensive research and drafting of briefs for both State and Federal appellate courts.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Insurance defense practice; professional liability, legal malpractice, product, and construction defect from inception through settlement or trial. Represented private and public entities at state and federal levels. Summer associate in 2004.

Notre Dame, In, Us

Assisted law professors in the law library with professional research on a variety of topics including tax law, property zoning and regulation, employment law, and criminal law.

Mayfield Village, Oh, Us

Property and casualty insurance sales; licensed in 30+ states. Consistently a top sales performer.

J.D., Law

Bachelor Of Arts, English

Philosophy