At an insurance carrier or TPA, you handle bodily-injury claims — investigating liability, evaluating injury damages, negotiating with claimants and attorneys, and resolving the injury-side of liability claims that auto, premises, and other lines generate.
BI claim work runs across active files with claimants, medical providers, attorneys, and the carrier's defense team — gathering medical records, evaluating injury severity, negotiating settlements or supporting litigation. Settlement quality and reserve adequacy anchor the operating measures.
The harder part is often the medical-evaluation and negotiation depth that BI work requires — injuries vary widely in severity, treatment, and prognosis, and reps build the working knowledge to evaluate medical records and negotiate with represented claimants. Variance across employers is real: auto-carrier BI reps handle high-volume third-party injury claims; GL carriers run BI on premises and product liability; commercial carriers handle larger-exposure BI claims with longer cycles.
It fits people analytically careful with medical and legal documents, comfortable across adversarial negotiations, and steady under litigation-exposure pressure. AIC, CPCU, and SCLA credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the litigation-and-deposition exposure — BI files can become evidence, and rep work faces scrutiny under cross-examination.
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View all Admin & Office roles →At an insurance carrier or TPA, you handle bodily-injury claims — investigating liability, evaluating injury damages, negotiating with claimants and attorneys, and resolving the injury-side of liability claims that auto, premises, and other lines generate.
Median pay for a Bodily Injury Claims Representative (Bodily Injury Claims Rep) is about $48K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $37K to $73K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Time Management, Speaking, Active Listening, and Critical Thinking.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 3.7% through 2034, with roughly 229,070 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Claims Analyst, Claims Processor, and Liability Claims Representative.
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