Investigate and maintain property/casualty claims. Determine liability, secure information, reviews coverages, arrange appraisals, and settle claims. May work in the field or central location.
The Field Property Claims Adjuster position supports the Claim Division goal of ensuring customer service industry leadership and partners with agency to deliver seamless claim service. An experienced adjuster who can work on moderately complex claims. You will report to the Claims Manager
Compensation Minimum:$55,000 / year
Compensation Maximum:$90,000 / year
Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location.
Job Level Summary
- Requires working experience in own job discipline and broaden capabilities.
- Continue to build knowledge of the company, processes and customers.
- Perform a range of assignments related to job discipline.
- Use prescribed policies in analyzing situations.
- Receive a moderate level of guidance and direction.
Primary Accountabilities
- Investigate origin and cause of claims by contacting the appropriate parties including insureds, claimants, agents, attorneys, contractors, experts, special investigation unit, other adjusters, public personnel.
- Identify complex issues and seeks assistance. Handle claims on a good faith basis.
- Handle both 1st party claims under multiple policies types and numerous endorsements.
- Conduct on-site inspections when needed, evaluates damages, and handles claim negotiations with insureds, claimants, attorneys, public adjusters.
- Respond to customer inquiries, and close files.
- Interpret and determine policies, leases, by-laws, declarations, articles and contract coverages and apply to all parties for assigned losses.
- Provide all parties with claim process and status; answer questions or redirect to other areas.
Requirements:
- Prior experience writing estimates using Xactimate (1-3 years)
- Offer to you will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks.
- Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions.
- Our policy restricts consideration of applicants needing employment sponsorship (visa) to specialty occupations. Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless otherwise specified in the posting.
The candidate(s) selected for this role will be employed by AFICS, Inc. (American Family Insurance Claims Services, Inc.), an affiliate of American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I.
In this primarily home-based role, you will spend 80% of your time (4+ days per week) working from home and/or in the field handling claims, typically within a 2-hour drive time radius. A company fleet vehicle is provided with the position.] On occasion you may be asked to travel to an office location for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, trainings, and culture events.
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We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above. Skills can be used in many different ways, and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture. We encourage those who are passionate about what we do to apply!
We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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