Coventry
Senior Workers' Comp. Claims Analyst 2
US-NJ-Egg Harbor
Job ID: 24-16906
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Insurance & Administration
Mitchell International, Inc.
Overview
The Enlyte Family of Businesses
Mitchell | Genex | Coventry
Enlyte is the parent brand of Mitchell, Genex and Coventry, an organization unlike any other in the Property & Casualty industry, bringing together three great businesses with a shared vision of using technology innovation, clinical services and network solutions to help our customers and the people they serve. Our suite of products and services enable our employees to help people recover from challenging life events, while providing opportunities for meaningful impact and career growth.
Responsibilities
- Independently investigates, evaluates, and resolves assigned litigated and lost time Pennsylvania and New Jersey Workers’ Compensation claims in a timely manner in accordance with legal statutes, policy provisions and company guidelines.
- Evaluate claimant eligibility; communicate with attending physician, employer and injured worker.
- Manage high exposure, complex and catastrophic claims.
- Work with both the claimant and their physician to medically manage the claim, from initial medical treatment to reviewing and evaluating ongoing treatment and related information.
- Work directly with employers to facilitate a return to work, either on a full-time or modified duty basis.
- Confirm coverage and applicable insurance policy or coverage document and statutory requirements.
- Identify potential for third party recovery, including subrogation, Second Injury Fund or other fund involvement (when applicable) and excess or reinsurance reimbursement. Pursue the process of reimbursement and complete posting of recovery to the claim file, where appropriate.
- Identify potential for disability or pension credits or offsets and apply same where appropriate.
- Establish claim reserve levels by estimating the potential exposure of each assigned claim, establish appropriate reserves with documented rationale, maintain and adjust reserves over the life of the claim to reflect changes in exposure.
- Establish compensability status through case investigation and evaluation and application of jurisdictional statutes and laws.
- Manage diary in accordance with Best Practices and complete tasks to ensure that cases move to the best financial outcome and timely resolution.
- Where litigation is filed, evaluate exposure and work with defense counsel to establish strong defenses, prepare litigation plan of action, set legal reserve and manage litigation over life of claim.
- Oversee and coordinate medical treatment for injured employees and provide information to treating physicians regarding employees’ medical history, health issues, and job requirements; provide direction to assigned nurse case manager where applicable.
Qualifications
• High School Diploma (or equivalent) or Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree preferred, or five or more years of equivalent work experience required in an insurance, medical/health or legal related industry
• At least 5-6 years of experience handling workers’ compensation claims
required; more experience may be required depending upon complexity of
claim pending.
• Completion of Workers’ Compensation training courses internally and/or
externally in all significant areas affecting Workers’ Compensation claims
handling and practices.
• Workers’ Compensation licenses, certifications, awards preferred.
Salary:
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