Lead File Handler
Description
- As part of our on\-going growth strategy, we are looking for a Lead File Handler to join our Industrial Disease team in Liverpool to help service their ever\-growing roster of clients across Industrial Disease.
- Take ownership of your own caseload, including NIHL and other disease claims, while making a real impact on clients’ outcomes.
- Play a key role in shaping team strategy, mentoring junior colleagues, and identifying opportunities for innovation and growth.
- Join a dynamic, supportive, and sociable team with excellent career development opportunities
Key Responsibilities
- Overall conduct of allocated matters fixing strategy and liaising directly with clients
- Responsibility for Assistants \& their development
- Ensure adherence with court timetables by taking relevant actions/delegation of tasks as appropriate
- Ensuring experts are instructed in sufficient time by taking relevant actions/delegation of tasks as appropriate
- Attending conferences with Counsel and clients
- Dealing with routine correspondence
- Compliance with MI
- To ensure compliance with the SRA Standards \& Regulations
- Adhere to the Keoghs Values
Skills, Knowledge \& Expertise
- Demonstrates strong technical proficiency in handling NIHL disease claims as a Strong technical proficiency in NIHL claims; experience in other disease matters is a plus.
- Effective negotiator with excellent interpersonal, listening, and communication skills.
- Highly self\-motivated, able to prioritise, organise, and work under pressure while maintaining attention to detail.
- Proactive contributor to team growth, sharing knowledge, supporting training, and improving processes.
Job Benefits
- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy \& sell 3 days)
- Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) \- will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.
- Simply Health Care Cash Plan
- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing \& healthy living and financial \& legal wellbeing
- Death in Service
- Critical Illness Cover
- PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance)
- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Employee Resource Groups
- Employee Volunteering Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme\*
- Tech Scheme\*
- Season Ticket Loan\*
- Gym Flex\*
- Access to Online Discount Sites
- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
- Discounts at local retail outlets
- after successfully completing probation
About Keoghs
Keoghs is a leading provider of legal and claims solutions to insurers, businesses and other suppliers to the insurance sector. We manage more than £1bn worth of insurer claims and resolve in excess of 100,000 claims per year working in partnership with leading insurers, MGAs, brokers, corporates and the public sector.
With more than 50 years’ experience we have an in\-depth understanding of the insurance claims process, enabling us to contain and lower litigation rates, shorten claims lifecycles and reduce overall claims costs. We combine proven processes, technology and low cost infrastructure with extensive legal and insurance market knowledge. This enables us to create individual solutions for each of our clients that match their requirements in terms of quality, performance and value for money.
We invest heavily in specialised services, technology and innovation for our insurance clients, and we are the first to launch a true artificial intelligence (AI) insurance lawyer. Through our proprietary AI lawyer, Lauri, we’ve transformed the claims handling process for low\-value personal injury claims; we’ve reduced claim lifecycles and reduced costs for our clients. Supported by commercial acumen and innovative products, Keoghs leads the way in providing legal solutions to the insurance industry.
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