This role will focus on supporting Mercy’s litigation and risk management functions. Skills desired include the following:
- Litigation Risk and Liability Management: Deep expertise identifying, assessing, and mitigating claims, litigation and liability exposures across clinical, operational, regulatory, and strategic domains.
- Malpractice and Complex Claims Oversight: Significant experience overseeing medical malpractice risk, catastrophic and high-severity claims, systemic loss trends, class actions, and other material exposure matters, including reserving strategy and claims valuation.
- Government Investigations and Complex Litigation: Experience managing high-risk litigation and investigations, including False Claims Act/qui tam matters, regulatory enforcement, and significant commercial disputes.
- Risk Financing and Insurance Strategy: Expertise managing self-funded liability programs, insurance funding and reserving strategies, excess and commercial insurance coverage, and enterprise insurance program design, including evaluation of alternative risk financing structures such as captive insurance arrangements.
- Claims Governance and Litigation Management: Ability to oversee claims governance, reserve and settlement strategy, outside counsel management, litigation portfolio performance, and related processes to align claims outcomes with organizational objectives.
- Patient Safety and Loss Prevention: Experience partnering with patient safety and quality functions to support loss prevention strategies and reduce preventable harm.
- Regulatory and Governance Leadership: Ability to advise executive leadership and boards on risk governance, emerging exposures, insurance oversight, and enterprise risk strategy.
Qualifications:
- JD required
- Bar membership in Missouri (or other state(s) where Mercy operates)
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in professional liability litigation, complex claims management, insurance coverage, risk financing, or related healthcare litigation leadership roles.
From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.
Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. As we grow, you'll grow with us.
Skills Required
- Juris Doctor (JD)
- Bar membership in Missouri or other state(s) where Mercy operates
- 10+ years progressively responsible experience in professional liability litigation, complex claims management, insurance coverage, or related healthcare litigation leadership
- Experience overseeing medical malpractice, catastrophic/high‑severity claims, class actions, and reserving strategy
- Experience managing government investigations and complex litigation (e.g., False Claims Act, regulatory enforcement)
- Expertise in risk financing, self‑funded liability programs, insurance funding and program design (including captives)
- Experience with claims governance, outside counsel management, and litigation portfolio performance oversight
Mercy Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mercy and has not been reviewed or approved by Mercy.
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Healthcare Strength — Day‑one medical, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage is available for many benefit‑eligible roles, alongside options like disability, FSAs, EAP, wellness, and other add‑ons. Coverage breadth and immediate eligibility are highlighted across role postings and benefits guides.
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Retirement Support — Automatic enrollment in the MyRetirement 401(k) includes a per‑paycheck employer match and an additional annual service contribution for eligible co‑workers. This layered design provides ongoing support for long‑term savings.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A combined PTO bank (holidays, vacation, short‑term illness) plus an Extended Sick Bank and Paid Parental Leave are standard components. Accruals start quickly and can increase with tenure, with some locations also offering Volunteer Time Off.
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What We Do
Mercy, named one of the top five large U.S. health systems for four consecutive years by IBM Watson Health, serves millions annually. Mercy is one of the nation’s most highly integrated, multi-state health care systems, including more than 40 acute care, managed and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient and urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies. Mercy has 900 physician practices and outpatient facilities, 2,400 Mercy Clinic physicians and more than 40,000 co-workers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Mercy’s Virtual Care Center is the world’s first such facility dedicated to care outside its own walls, monitoring patients 24/7/365 across the country, using high-speed data and video connections and medically intervening when and where patients need it with a comprehensive team approach. Mercy was among the first health care organizations in the U.S. to have an integrated electronic health record (EHR) connecting all points of care. Mercy Technology Services’ broad use of its EHR has been recognized at one of the highest possible levels by Epic.
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