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Title: Litigation Paralegal (contract)Location: Onsite in Chappaqua Crossing, NYContract Length: 4 months with potential to extendHourly Rate: $30-34Our client, a healthcare insurance and services company, is seeking a temporary litigation paralegal to assist the Senior Director of Risk Management & Quality Assurance in coordinating the provision of comprehensive risk management services for all insurance, enterprise risk and medico-legal matters relating to the special tasks and activities of the department.This position will be a full-time contract (40 hours per week, M-F) and is projected to last roughly 4 months with potential to extend. Candidates should be prepared and willing to working onsite.Responsibilities: • Manages the occurrence/potential claims reporting program, closely reviewing and monitoring occurrences/claims and trending issues.• Responsible for coordination of interviews, proactively gathering involved documentation and ensuring secure, protected and confidential file maintenance for litigated matters.• Responsible for notifying insurance carriers, claims TPA, physicians and attorneys when lawsuits are received.• Coordinates document discovery, witness discovery, claims analysis, case management, and case closure.• Coordinate and schedule high-level meetings and conference calls.• Receive and coordinate all service of process.• Manage and coordinate all legal requests for physicians.• Maintains calendars to include coordination and scheduling of meetings, depositions, conference calls, sends calendar invites and reminders, reserves conference rooms• Performs other duties as assigned.Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree required. Paralegal Certificate preferred.• 5+ years of paralegal/legal assistant/risk management experience.• Experience with legal terms, laws and judiciary guidelines experience with medical terminology.• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Power Point) and Adobe Acrobat.• Notary (preferred).Skills:• Communication and Verbal Proficiency• Interpersonal Skills• Listening and Communication Skills• Reporting Skills• Scheduling• Presentation Skills, Organization and Time Management• Collaboration Skills• Personal Effectiveness/Credibility• Flexibility• Technical Capacity• Stress Management/Composure