Managing Counsel, Claims (Remote)

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Job Description Join a high-impact legal team where your expertise helps shape outcomes and safeguard the business. This in‑house counsel position sits within the Claims Matter Counseling (CMC) team—part of the Business Law & Compliance Property Liability practice group.

Key Responsibilities • Provide advice and counsel to the Claims Department when legal issues or questions arise during the handling of claims, including, but not limited to, coverage opinions, conditional demand response, large losses, releases, rejected tenders, multiple competing claims, new laws or court decisions, among other matters for the assigned states. • Provide advice to the Claims Organization on complex claims and large losses that have potential extracontractual or bad faith legal exposure to drive towards resolution. • Provide training and education to the Claims Organization on emerging legal trends, issues, risks, new laws or court decisions for assigned states. • Work with business colleagues and other in‑house legal teams to develop and implement recommendations related to the handling of claims. • Deliver legal counsel on high‑exposure, complex insurance claims and coverage issues arising during active claims handling. • Prepare attorney conditional demand responses.

Functional Skills & Expertise • Strong project management abilities, with a proven track record of coordinating tasks, managing priorities, and ensuring timely completion of objectives. • Skilled at collaborating with personnel at all organizational levels and providing guidance to junior team members. • Leverages subject matter expertise to support and advise less experienced colleagues. • Proficient in computer applications, including the Microsoft Office Suite, and experienced in using technology to support daily work and analysis. • Familiarity with LexisNexis or comparable research platforms. • Demonstrated coverage experience, with the ability to perform detailed coverage analysis across multiple jurisdictions. • Experience handling complex attorney conditional demands in multiple jurisdictions. • Background in insurance defense or extra‑contractual and bad faith litigation.

Benefits & Other Requirements The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Our mission is clear: protect the Company while enabling smart, strategic business decisions. We do this by delivering trusted legal guidance across the full spectrum of insurance operations, with a special focus on supporting our Property Liability business units—including the Claims Department.

As Managing Counsel, you’ll play a key advisory role for the Claims Organization, focusing on high‑exposure claims and complex coverage issues that arise before litigation begins.

You’ll be a critical partner to frontline claims professionals and leadership, helping mitigate legal risk—such as bad faith or extra‑contractual exposure—while also driving efficiency by minimizing reliance on outside counsel.

This is a unique opportunity to practice at the intersection of law and business, where your counsel directly influences outcomes and protects the Company’s interests every day.

Education & Qualifications • Juris Doctorate degree. • Licensed to practice law and in good standing within State of Practice. • 7 or more years of claims legal experience. • 3 or more years of coverage experience. Supervisory Responsibilities • This job does not have supervisory duties.

Compensation The compensation offered for this role is $112,000.00 - $180,000.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications. Equity & Inclusion Statement It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs.

Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee’s terms or conditions of employment is prohibited.

Legal Non‑Disclosure Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

Veterans and Protected Categories Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.