Location: Chappaqua,NY, USA
Title: Litigation Paralegal (contract)
Location: Onsite in Chappaqua Crossing, NY
Contract Length: 4 months with potential to extend
Hourly Rate: $30-34
Our client, a healthcare insurance and services company, is seeking a temporary litigation paralegal to assist the Senior Director of Risk Management & Quality Assurance in coordinating the provision of comprehensive risk management services for all insurance, enterprise risk and medico-legal matters relating to the special tasks and activities of the department.
This position will be a full-time contract (40 hours per week, M-F) and is projected to last roughly 4 months with potential to extend. Candidates should be prepared and willing to working onsite.
Responsibilities:
• Manages the occurrence/potential claims reporting program, closely reviewing and monitoring occurrences/claims and trending issues.
• Responsible for coordination of interviews, proactively gathering involved documentation and ensuring secure, protected and confidential file maintenance for litigated matters.
• Responsible for notifying insurance carriers, claims TPA, physicians and attorneys when lawsuits are received.
• Coordinates document discovery, witness discovery, claims analysis, case management, and case closure.
• Coordinate and schedule high-level meetings and conference calls.
• Receive and coordinate all service of process.
• Manage and coordinate all legal requests for physicians.
• Maintains calendars to include coordination and scheduling of meetings, depositions, conference calls, sends calendar invites and reminders, reserves conference rooms
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree required. Paralegal Certificate preferred.
• 5+ years of paralegal/legal assistant/risk management experience.
• Experience with legal terms, laws and judiciary guidelines experience with medical terminology.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Power Point) and Adobe Acrobat.
• Notary (preferred).
Skills:
• Communication and Verbal Proficiency
• Interpersonal Skills
• Listening and Communication Skills
• Reporting Skills
• Scheduling
• Presentation Skills, Organization and Time Management
• Collaboration Skills
• Personal Effectiveness/Credibility
• Flexibility
• Technical Capacity
• Stress Management/Composure