Senior Claims Counsel

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Schaumburg, IL
In-Office
Senior level
Insurance
The Role
Manage and resolve claims under title insurance, negotiate settlements, supervise outside counsel, and analyze complex legal issues. Requires a Juris Doctorate and 5+ years of experience.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Stewart, we know that success begins with great people. As a Stewart employee, you’ll be joining a company that was named a 2024-2025 Best Company to Work For by U.S. News & World Report, and a 2025 Top Workplace by USA Today. We are committed to helping you own, develop, and nurture your career. We invest in your career journey because we understand that as you grow, so does our company. And our priority is smart growth – by attaining the best people, investing in tools and resources that enable success, and creating a better home for all.

You will be part of an inclusive work environment that reflects the customers we serve. You’ll be empowered to use your unique experiences, passion and skills to help our company and the communities we serve constantly evolve and improve. Together, we can achieve our vision of becoming the premier title and real estate services company.

Stewart is a global real estate services company, providing title insurance, settlement, underwriting, and lender services through our family of companies. To learn more about Stewart, visit stewart.com/about. 

More information can be found on stewart.com. Get title industry information and insights at stewart.com/insights. Follow Stewart on Facebook @StewartTitleCo, on Instagram @StewartTitleCo and on LinkedIn @StewartTitle

Job Description

Job Summary

Ensures accountable decisions are taken at the right level in the organization, and individuals making decisions are suitably informed about the level of legal risk on all legal related matters in a position free of billable hours.

Job Responsibilities

  • Responsible for managing and resolving claims initiated under title insurance policies and products.
  • Interprets internal/external business environment
  • Retain, monitor, and manage outside counsel and legal representation of insured​
  • Negotiate settlements and claim resolutions with claimants, third parties and opposing counsel​
  • Manages personal caseload including handling matters involving fraud, forgery, missed liens, access issues, easement disputes and more.
  • Identify and posture resolved claims for recovery or salvage efforts​
  • Performs specialized assignments; solves complex problems and develops non-traditional solutions through sophisticated analytical thinking ​
  • Interprets internal/external business environment​
  • Recommends best practices to improve processes or services​
  • Impacts achievements of customer, operational, project or service objectives​
  • Individual contributor working independently; may require guidance in highly complex situations​
  • Occasional travel to and participation in mediations, settlement conferences, claim conferences, etc. 
  • Performs all other duties as assigned by management​

Education

  • Juris Doctorate and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction required

Experience

  • Typically requires 5+ years of related work experience
  • Proven record of strong cross-functional written & verbal communication skills
  • Past experience with professionally handling high stress situations and high volume workload

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Stewart is committed to ensuring that its online application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need assistance or an accommodation in the application process, please contact us by email at [email protected].

Benefits

Stewart offers eligible employees a competitive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to a variety of health and wellness insurance options and programs, paid time off, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase program, and employee discounts.

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The Company
HQ: Houston, TX
5,803 Employees
Year Founded: 1893

What We Do


Stewart is on a journey to become the premier title services company. We offer personalized service, industry expertise and customized solutions for virtually any type of real estate transaction and are a leading global real estate services provider. At our core, we help make property ownership around the world possible. In doing that, we take every step to foster meaningful relationships through our ingenuity and efforts and are dedicated to going above and beyond to provide the best experience for employees and customers alike. To do so, we know we must sustainably serve our employees, shareholders, customers and our communities at large. That’s why we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that fosters a deep sense of pride, passion, respect and belonging, while lessening our impact on the environment and providing transparency around the way we do business.

Stewart. Redefined and moving ahead. Learn more at stewart.com, subscribe to blog.stewart.com or follow us on Twitter @stewarttitleco.

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