From middle market to Fortune 500 companies, Berkley Custom’s team is committed to providing excellent service and a consistent approach to meet the needs of their brokers and their customers, bringing specific expertise in excess casualty as well as a variety of targeted primary and excess programs.  

They seek to outperform competitors with focus and deep understanding of their client’s priorities and by developing creative risk solutions to meet their long-term needs. Their key differentiators include the following:

EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIPS – Berkley Custom works exclusively the wholesale brokerage community as well as their program partners, and continually builds upon long established relationships with a passion for superior service for their appointed producers.

INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS – Berkley Custom attracts and retains professionals with significant experience in their field, many with over 25 years in the business. Their culture values and promotes deep industry knowledge, integrity, excellence, and respect.

LONG-TERM APPROACH TO ACCOUNTS – Berkley Custom continually seeks partners for the long term who share their values and risk management discipline.

Long-term relationships have been their management’s trademark in over 30 years of serving customers in the E&S and Program marketplace. Their team is dedicated to serving the varied casualty exposure needs of their brokers and their customers. By truly understanding risk exposures in a constantly changing global environment, they can better work with you to keep risk placement recommendations current and responsive.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

The Assistant Vice President, Claims will report to the Head of Excess Claims and be responsible for handling all aspects of high exposure claims arising on excess policies from inception to resolution.   Key functions include but are not limited to:  

• Handling complex, high exposure lead and high excess involving single-event bodily injury, property damage, construction defect and multiple policy year complex multiple district tort litigation.
• Analyzing and interpreting policy language and handling claims involving complex and/or litigated coverage issues.
• Managing complex litigation, including investigation of coverage, liability and damages and development and execution of litigation management and claim resolution plans in high exposure tort claims.
• Recommending and establishing case reserves. 
• Effectively presenting claims in roundtable discussions to senior management.
• Timely and accurately drafting required case evaluation and other required reports.
• Negotiating claim resolutions against elite adversaries.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university required.  Juris Doctor strongly preferred
• 10+ years excess commercial claims experience
• Prior extensive complex claims experience preferred
• Effectively present complex claim issues to executive management
• Extensive knowledge of litigation process on a nationwide basis
• Proficient in excess and umbrella technical claims handling techniques and knowledge. The successful candidate must demonstrate in-depth knowledge of coverage, claims handling, investigation and evaluation, including liability and damage analyses
• Ability to analyze, develop and execute claim resolution plans
• Proven negotiation success in resolving complex, high exposure claims 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Proper adjuster licensing