Managing Counsel, Claims
Location
United States
Posted
35 days ago
Salary
$112K - $180K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Managing Counsel, Claims
Allstate
Role Description Join a high-impact legal team where your expertise helps shape outcomes and safeguard the business. This in-house counsel position sits within the Claims Matter Counseling (CMC) team—part of the Business Law & Compliance Property Liability practice group. Our mission is clear: protect the Company while enabling smart, strategic business decisions. We do this by delivering trusted legal guidance across the full spectrum of insurance operations, with a special focus on supporting our Property Liability business units—including the Claims Department. As Managing Counsel, you’ll play a key advisory role for the Claims Organization, focusing on high-exposure claims and complex coverage issues that arise before litigation begins. You'll be a critical partner to frontline claims professionals and leadership, helping mitigate legal risk—such as bad faith or extra-contractual exposure—while also driving efficiency by minimizing reliance on outside counsel. This is a unique opportunity to practice at the intersection of law and business, where your counsel directly influences outcomes and protects the Company’s interests every day. Key Responsibilities - Provide advice and counsel to the Claims Department when legal issues or questions arise during the handling of claims, including, but not limited to, coverage opinions, conditional demand response, large losses, releases, rejected tenders, multiple competing claims, new laws or court decisions, among other matters for the assigned states. - Provide advice to the Claims Organization on complex claims and large losses that have potential extracontractual or bad faith legal exposure to drive towards resolution. - Provide training and education to the Claims Organization on emerging legal trends, issues, risks, new laws or court decisions for assigned states. - Work with business colleagues and other in-house legal teams to develop and implement recommendations related to the handling of claims. - Deliver legal counsel on high-exposure, complex insurance claims and coverage issues arising during active claims handling. - Prepare attorney conditional demand responses. Qualifications - Juris Doctorate degree - Licensed to practice law and in good standing within State of Practice - 7 or more years of claims legal experience - 3 or more years of coverage experience Requirements - Strong project management abilities, with a proven track record of coordinating tasks, managing priorities, and ensuring timely completion of objectives. - Skilled at collaborating with personnel at all organizational levels and providing guidance to junior team members. - Leverages subject matter expertise to support and advise less experienced colleagues. - Proficient in computer applications, including the Microsoft Office Suite, and experienced in using technology to support daily work and analysis. - Familiarity with LexisNexis or comparable research platforms. - Demonstrated coverage experience, with the ability to perform detailed coverage analysis across multiple jurisdictions (preferred). - Experience handling complex attorney conditional demands in multiple jurisdictions (preferred). - Background in insurance defense or extra-contractual and bad faith litigation. Skills - Bad Faith - Claims Analysis - Coverage Analysis - Insurance Bad Faith - Insurance Coverage Analysis - Legal Consulting - Legal Research - Negotiation - Property & Casualty Insurance - Strategic Collaborations - Strategy Development - Strategy Execution Compensation The compensation offered for this role is $112,000.00 - $180,000.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
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