Claims Handler – Pre Litigation

Kennedys is seeking an experienced Claims Handler to join their 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. This includes handling various types of liability claims (such as personal injury and property damage) and first-party property claims of unlimited value for insurers and self-retained policyholders.

Team

The Kennedys’ Leeds team is a major force in the local 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.

Clients

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

Cases

• First party property and third party personal injury and property damage claims handling.

Required experience

• 2-5+ 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) 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.