Lockton

Head of Casualty Claims

Lockton$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of casualty claims experience in various environments (carrier, brokerage, legal, or hybrid)
  • Deep expertise in General Liability (GL), Auto, and complex casualty claims; product recall experience preferred
  • Strong understanding of litigation management and claims defense processes
  • Experience managing litigation budgets and engaging with defense counsel
  • Proven ability to lead claims advocacy at a national or enterprise level
  • Experience collaborating in matrixed organizations across multiple business units
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead the integration of claims and risk control into a unified casualty strategy
  • Drive a feedback system between claims, risk control, and placement
  • Align Series claims and risk control teams under a standard casualty framework
  • Partner with risk control to prioritize interventions based on severity drivers
  • Embed claims insights into client risk control strategies
  • Identify systemic loss drivers and deploy risk control initiatives
  • Serve as senior escalation point for complex casualty claims

Benefits

  • Flexible, remote work options
  • Opportunity to develop and deliver national training
  • Engage with senior-level industry stakeholders
  • Chance to influence strategic direction and client outcomes
  • Potential for career advancement in a leadership role
Full Job Description
Job Summary:

The Head of Casualty Claims is a senior national leadership role responsible for building and leading the U.S. Casualty Claims function. This role elevates claims from a reactive service to a proactive, coordinated strategic capability across the firm. T his role reports into the Head of US Casualty.

A critical component of this role is integrating claims and risk control into a unified casualty performance strategy. The role drives alignment across Series claims teams and risk control functions, ensuring consistent execution, improved claim outcomes, reduced E&O exposure, and enhanced client value

CORE RESPONSIBILITY

Lead the integration of claims and risk control/loss control into a unified casualty strategy, ensuring claim trends directly inform risk mitigation efforts and proactively reduce frequency and severity across the portfolio.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Drive a closed-loop feedback system between claims, risk control, and placement.
• Align Series claims and risk control teams under a consistent casualty framework.
• Partner with risk control to prioritize interventions based on severity drivers.
• Embed claims insights into client risk control strategies.
• Deliver a combined claims + risk control value proposition to clients.
• Identify systemic loss drivers and deploy coordinated risk control initiatives.
• Translate claims trends into targeted, measurable risk control actions.
• Serve as senior escalation point for complex, high-severity casualty and product recall claims.
• Maintain senior-level relationships with carrier claims leadership.
• Support E&O mitigation through disciplined claims governance and documentation standards.
• Develop and deliver national claims training and thought leadership.

Requirements:
• 15+ years of casualty claims experience in a carrier, brokerage, legal, or hybrid environment.
• Deep expertise in GL, Auto, and complex casualty claims; product recall experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of litigation management, legal strategy, and claims defense processes; prior experience working within or closely alongside legal teams strongly preferred.
• Experience engaging with defense counsel, managing litigation budgets, and influencing case strategy and outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead claims advocacy at a national or enterprise level.
• Experience working across matrixed organizations with multiple business units.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience integrating claims insights with risk control, analytics, and placement strategies.

SUCCESS METRICS
• Reduction in loss frequency and severity through coordinated claims and risk control initiatives.
• Increased client adoption of integrated casualty strategies (claims + risk control).
• Improved outcomes on key loss drivers (auto, GL severity, litigation trends).
• Stronger alignment between claims strategy, risk control, and placement decisions.
• Increased producer and client confidence in claims advocacy.

Open to remote locations.

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About Lockton

Lockton Companies is the world's largest privately held insurance brokerage firm, providing insurance, risk management, employee benefits and retirement services. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Lockton has more than 7,500 associates in over 100 offices worldwide. The company serves clients in a variety of industries, including construction, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, real estate, and technology. Lockton is known for its innovative solutions and exceptional customer service.
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