Senior Claims Consultant

A typical week often involves client engagement, complex claim review, strategy advice, and the steady cadence of senior advisory work — sitting with carrier clients on difficult claims, reviewing large-loss files, advising on coverage disputes, supporting litigation defense. You're often the senior external voice when claims face material exposure or contested coverage. Engagements delivered and client outcomes tend to be the indirect measures.

The harder part is often the deposition and expert-witness layer — senior claim consultants are sometimes called to testify, and the work products must hold up under hostile cross-examination. Variance across employers runs wide: at large insurance consulting firms the work is structured with deep specialty support; at boutique claims-advisory practices the senior consultant carries individual responsibility on flagship matters.

It fits people who are deeply experienced in claims work, defensible in writing, and composed under hostile scrutiny. AIC, CPCU, SCLA, and litigation-support credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the business-development burden — senior claims-advisory work depends on a personal book of carrier and law-firm relationships.