Senior Vice President Associate General Counsel Risk Management & Litigation

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Franklin, TN, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Healthtech
The Role
Provides strategic leadership for professional liability claims, litigation, insurance, and enterprise risk management. Oversees claims handlers and clinical risk management, coordinates with outside counsel, analyzes exposure data, reduces liability costs, and partners with operational, clinical, and compliance leaders. The role requires extensive healthcare litigation experience, medical malpractice expertise, professional liability claims management, and leadership of legal and risk-management functions.
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You Matter
  • Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
  • Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
  • Excellent career growth opportunities

Join us and find a career that supports:


  • Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
  • Autonomy in a warm team environment
  • Growth and training

Perks and Benefits

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:


  • DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
  • Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
  • Company paid life insurance
  • Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
  • Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
  • Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans
Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved. If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

How you make a difference

The Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Risk Management and Litigation provides strategic leadership, tactical insights, and substantive expertise in managing a diverse range of professional liability claims. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, this role oversees the Claims Management team, the company’s insurance portfolio, and the broader risk management strategy. The position is critical in ensuring comprehensive oversight of the company’s risk management operations, driving effective resolution of liability matters while safeguarding organizational interests.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead a team of claims handlers to manage litigation and compensable events, implementing strategies to minimize professional liability exposure and costs.
  • Analyze data to predict future exposure, inform strategies for reducing claims and expenses, and improve company services.
  • Manage professional liability claims, including "pro se" claims and those involving healthcare services to patients in correctional facilities, in coordination with multiple outside law firms.
  • Oversee the Clinical Risk Management department, including a specialized correctional health clinical claims director nurse, to develop a comprehensive risk management model.
  • Collaborate with operational, clinical, and compliance leaders to ensure risk management practices align with the company’s values and motto of “Always Do The Right Thing.”
Qualifications & Requirements

Education

  • Graduate of ABA-accredited law school.

Experience

  • Minimum of 15+ years of legal experience in litigation, and litigation and risk management, preferably in both a law firm and in-house environment; healthcare industry experience required.
  • Experience working with healthcare clients is preferred, working knowledge of common Federal healthcare regulatory elements (HIPAA, Fraud/Abuse/Waste avoidance, etc.)
  • Expertise and significant experience in handling medical malpractice litigation and professional liability claims management is a requirement of the position.
  • Experience managing and defending 8th Amendment, 42 USC 1983 and similar cases is highly desirable.Licenses/Certifications • Licensed to practice law and admitted to the bar in at least one state or the District of Columbia
  • Eligible for admission as an In-House Counsel in the state of Tennessee.

Compliance

  • Must remain in good standing with the Board of Professional Responsibility.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

We value the contributions of team members with a broad range of experiences, skills, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all.


We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.


This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.


Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.

Skills Required

  • Graduate of an ABA-accredited law school
  • 15+ years of legal experience in litigation, litigation risk management, and preferably both law firm and in-house environments
  • Healthcare industry experience
  • Expertise and significant experience handling medical malpractice litigation and professional liability claims management
  • Licensed to practice law and admitted to the bar in at least one state or the District of Columbia
  • Eligible for admission as in-house counsel in Tennessee
  • Remain in good standing with the Board of Professional Responsibility
  • Experience working with healthcare clients
  • Working knowledge of federal healthcare regulations, including HIPAA and fraud, abuse, and waste avoidance
  • Experience managing and defending Eighth Amendment, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and similar cases
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The Company
HQ: Nashville, TN
4,221 Employees
Year Founded: 2003

What We Do

NOW IS YOUR MOMENT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Join our Wellpath family and make a difference every day by providing care to society’s most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Our team has the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those of you whose calling it is to serve others, we get it, it is ours too. This is your moment not only to advance your career but to join a mission that aligns with your own. We are Wellpath. We are the right people, striving to do the right thing. We will continue to create healthier communities — wherever we go, wherever we grow — one patient at a time. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” - John Bunyan Wellpath is the premier provider of localized, high-quality, compassionate care to vulnerable patients in challenging clinical environments. We deliver medical and behavioral healthcare through a family of local and state providers in correctional facilities, inpatient and residential treatment facilities, forensic treatment facilities, civil commitment centers, and community care centers. Wellpath employs nearly 15,000 professionals at over 500 facilities in 34 states across America and Australia and cares for more than 300,000 patients each day.

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