Senior Litigation Counsel, Montreal

Position Overview

The Senior Claims Litigation provides expert legal and litigation support to Claims, other Munich Re Canada business units, and external clients. This role is responsible for delivering high quality legal advice, overseeing litigated claims, conducting litigation audits, identifying legal trends, and supporting sound claims decision making to mitigate risk and achieve optimal outcomes.

Your Role:

Litigated Claims Management

• Manage and oversee a portfolio of litigated claims, ensuring timely review, documentation, and follow up in accordance with established service standards.
• Provide settlement concurrence, second opinions, and strategic guidance to clients and external business partners on appeals, settlement negotiations, legal billings, and regulatory developments.
• Conduct comprehensive litigation audits and follow ups, producing clear, professional reports identifying strengths, risks, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain strong, value-added partnerships with clients, counsel, and other external service providers.
• Enhance and sustain effective internal litigated claims management and record keeping practices to minimize risk exposure, contain costs, and support optimal claim resolutions.
• Regularly communicate significant legal, regulatory, industry, or client specific developments to management and internal stakeholders.

Legal Opinion & Advisory

• Provide clear, concise, and actionable legal opinion advice to the Claims Department, including guidance on:

• • Contentious and complex claims
  • Policy rescissions
  • Claims practices and procedures
  • Benefit interpretation
  • Claims settlements
  • Non treaty errors
  • Ex gratia requests

• Deliver forward looking research and technical expertise on treaty, product, contract, underwriting, privacy, and corporate legal matters to internal and external partners.
• Compile and analyze legal and litigation trends annually for presentation to Senior Management.
• When required, provide subject matter expertise and support on complex claims adjudication matters.

Education & Training

• Develop and deliver education through presentations, discussions, and written materials on insurance and litigation related legal topics.
• Design and facilitate client training sessions that promote best practices in the management of litigated claims, tailored to client needs and delivered in a timely and professional manner.

Your Profile:  

• Law degree with active membership in the Ontario or Quebec Bar.
• 7+ years of experience in Disability, Life gained within an insurance company and/or law firm.
• Experience in Critical Illness claims litigation would be considered an assist
• Demonstrated experience managing a dedicated litigated claims portfolio, including participation in examinations for discovery and defense of litigated matters.
• Bilingual (English/French).
• Excellent analytical, influencing, negotiation, problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including strong working knowledge of Excel.

About Munich Re

Together, we engage with everything we have and are, to help humankind act braver and better.

As the world’s leading reinsurance company with more than 40,000 employees in over 50 locations around the globe, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance.  By turning uncertainty into manageable risk, we enable fundamental change.  We recognize Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as a key priority with a culture that welcomes different thoughts and opinions.  We dare to think big and are continuously innovating on behalf of our clients.

Our data, our technology, and our teams place us in a unique position to drive transformative change in the life insurance industry.  We invest strategically in our world class talent, offering our employees a work experience that promotes professional development, innovation, and rewards high performance.

What Can We Offer You?

We are pleased to offer our employees great benefits and resources to support their mental, physical and financial wellbeing. These include:

• An engaging and collaborative environment that promotes continuous learning and development
• A hybrid work environment that combines weekly in-office and remote days
• A great compensation package including annual company bonus
• Market leading company-paid flexible health and dental benefits, starting on your first day
• Flexible dollars provided by the company to put towards Health Spending Account and/or Wellness Spending Account
• Immediate participation in DC Pension Plan with an automatic employer contribution, plus optional company match
• Generous time off including vacation, personal days, unplanned time, Statutory Holidays and company-wide early closure half-days
• Learning and development programs and resources, including unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, Education Assistance Program and reimbursement for professional fees
• Maternity, Parental & Adoption Leave top-up program
• Employee Referral Program, Recognition & Rewards Platform

This role is located in our Montreal office on 1000, rue De La Gauchetière, and we operate in a hybrid work model. This job posting is for an existing vacancy. 

We do not use AI in our recruitment process - applications are reviewed by our team to ensure a fair and personalized experience.

Please note that only candidates who are selected for interview will be contacted directly. We thank all candidates for their interest.

Munich Re is committed to providing a work environment that is inclusive and free of employment barriers and discrimination. Accommodations will be made for qualified applicants with a disability throughout the recruitment process. If you receive a request for an interview and you have a disability which will require an accommodation to support your participation, please contact AODARequestHR@munichre.ca as soon as practical so that suitable accommodations can be arranged.