Description
Job Summary
Receives, investigates, and handles claims for bodily injury, property damage, and auto bodily injury and property damage presented against CenterPoint Energy. Protects the assets of the Company from financial impact of liability claims and lawsuits while analyzing potential risk. Investigates incidents and claims that present potential exposure to the company and evaluates liability exposures. Provides support to the Legal Department and outside counsel.
Essential Functions
- Responsible for large volume of liability claims, including, but not limited to, Property Damage, Bodily Injury and Automobile, filed against the Company across its operations footprint.
- Analyze and evaluates financial exposures and expense management of claims activity and reports and presents recommendations of significant exposures and expense to management.
- Investigate (including field investigation) and evaluate liability claims.
- Negotiate claims with claimants, insurers, and attorneys.
- Assist the Legal Department and CenterPoint Energy's outside counsel on lawsuits.
- Maintain timely and accurate updates on claims in claims database.
- Be on call for one week (24/7) at a time as part of the duty rotation; duty may be required at least several times a year.
- Work with and serve as liaison with outside experts, including cause & origin, reconstruction, and other disciplines.
- Set and maintain reserves for claims considering the following criteria: liability, damages (property and bodily injury), and nature and extent of injury.
- Prompt, accurate investigation of liability claims to determine the facts and potential liability; handled to final resolution.
- Develop settlement strategy by evaluating factual information to settle claims in a cost-effective manner.
- Advise and support operating company management in responding to major incident and claims.
- Able to demonstrate a working knowledge of applicable federal and state utility laws/regulations (e.g., NESC,PUC, RRC, IURC etc.).
- Perform other duties that may be assigned at the Company's discretion.
Education Description
- Requires a bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university.
- In lieu of a degree, any combination of education and related experience totaling six (6) years, where each year of applicable college = 1 year and each year of applicable experience = .5 years. Experience in lieu of education is in addition to the Experience requirements.
Experience
- Requires two to four (2-4) years of experience as a claims adjuster in the property-casualty insurance industry, or in a field operations position requiring knowledge of the electric/gas distribution system, where customer contact occurred on a regular basis.
Contact
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
1111 Louisiana St
Houston
Texas United States
www.centerpointenergy.com
From the same organization
2 May, 2024
