This role offers an excellent opportunity to work within the Complex Injury Claims Team handling your own case load of large loss RTA claims mostly valued between £25,000 and £100,000. Experience of indemnity, liability and complex medical issues is required and excellent attention to detail essential. Your work will be supervised and feedback given.
The role also includes the need to engage with sophisticated senior claims handlers in long-standing insurance clients. In this role you may also be required to assist your Lead Lawyer in activities which enhance and develop Keoghs’ profile.
Location:
The primary location for this role is Newcastle Office although other Keoghs offices will be considered. The successful candidate must be flexible to commute to the Newcastle office on an ad-hoc basis to interact with their peers. Frequency will be discussed at recruitment stage.
Key Accountabilities
- Handling your own case load of large loss RTA claims mostly valued between £25,000 and £100,000 with some cases up to £150,000.
- Communicating with insurer clients, dealing with queries and providing progress updates.
- Forensic analysis of often voluminous quantum evidence, preparing chronologies, identifying anomalies and other relevant information across various sources and categories of evidence.
- Using your existing knowledge of complex injury symptomology to identify relevant issues within medical records in order to instruct medical experts, drawing key issues to their attention.
- Critical analysis of sources of liability evidence and identifying any gaps.
- Drafting concise technical advice on all aspects of claim handling to include advice on reserves, indemnity, liability, quantum and causation issues and claims resolution for strategy discussion with the Lead Lawyer as appropriate.
- Proactively identifying next steps required on matter, discussing those aspects with the Lead Lawyer as relevant, and taking action as agreed.
- Interviewing witnesses and drafting statements.
- Liaising with parties involved in claims including the insured, insurer, witnesses etc.
- Drafting pleadings and applications.
- Instructing counsel and attending conferences, JSMs, mediations both remotely and in person.
- Attend court in person or by telephone, attend trials, settlement conferences etc as required.
- Dealing with costs budgets in conjunction with costs lawyers.
- Delivery of agreed performance targets and quality standards.
- Delegating assigned tasks for an Assistant/ Complex Injury Paralegal and be fully engaged in their development in terms of technical ability and achievement of objectives.
- Maintaining case management systems with up-to-date management information for clients.
Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- Qualified solicitor, CILEX or proven relevant legal experience – it is essential you have handled cases up to £100K in your own name.
- Experience of indemnity and RTA liability and complex medical issues and causation is essential.
- Experience working in a similar role assisting on large loss and/or catastrophic injury claims.
- Ideally you will have defendant experience but we will consider a claimant background.
- Desire to want to develop more junior members of the team.
Values:
Our culture is focused on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our four values are at the heart of everything we do:
- We are connected
- We are dynamic
- We are innovative
- We succeed together
Contract Type: Permanent
Division: Complex Injury Newcastle
Office: Newcastle - Grey Street
Closing Date: 02 Oct 2024
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