Department: Claims
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: France (Remote)
Claims Handler [European Motor]
London OR EU Remote
Permanent / full-time
Are you an experienced Motor Claims professional with exposure to European portfolios? Do you enjoy handling complex, cross-border claims and working in a highly technical, collaborative environment?
We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd’s, Europe and North America.
We are looking for a Claims Handler to join our growing team, focusing on European Motor portfolios, including business originating from the Netherlands, France and wider European jurisdictions.
The Role
You will be responsible for managing a portfolio of international Motor claims, including large and complex cases, ensuring they are handled efficiently and to a high technical standard.
Working closely with Third-Party Administrators (TPAs) and internal stakeholders, you’ll play a key role in driving claims to resolution while maintaining strong reserving discipline and delivering commercial outcomes
Responsibilities;
• Handling complex, cross-border claims, including disputed, high-value matters and claims involving bodily injury and catastrophic losses
• Reviewing and overseeing claims handled by TPAs, particularly those exceeding authority limits
• Applying strong technical knowledge across liability, coverage and reserving
• Negotiating with counterparties, legal representatives and stakeholders
• Identifying trends and contributing to portfolio performance and savings initiatives
• Supporting due diligence and integration of newly acquired portfolios
• Collaborating across teams to ensure consistent claims handling standards
• Right to work in the location you’re applying to
• Proven experience handling Motor claims across European jurisdictions
• Exposure to Dutch and/or French motor portfolios (Essential)
• Strong understanding of motor liability and policy coverage interpretation
• Experience working with or overseeing Third-Party Administrators (TPAs)
• Confidence handling complex or high-value claims
• Solid reserving and negotiation skills
• Ability to manage multiple jurisdictions and competing priorities
• Contributing positively to our culture and values.
Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios. We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience. As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready. Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology. This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.
Why join us? At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth. We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America. Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US. To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement. We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets. We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre.Make an impact in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry
Compre is a leading legacy specialist with over 30 years of experience in the acquisition and management of insurance and reinsurance companies and portfolios in run-off. Compre is a business with operations in Finland, Germany, Malta, Bermuda, Switzerland the US, and UK. We have local relationships with counterparties across the whole of Europe and North America.
Our key objective is to secure legal, financial and operational finality for insurers and reinsurers seeking to exit their legacy exposures. We aim to do this using a collaborative approach that ensures our solutions get to the heart of the problems that our counterparties face.
Track Record
Compre completed its first run-off company acquisition in 1994 and to date has completed:
• 11 company acquisitions in Finland, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK
• 34 individual business portfolio acquisitions in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.
The companies we have acquired business from include: Allianz, Axa, Generali, Gjensidige, HSBC, QBE and Swiss Re.
We have been consistently trusted by major financial institutions for over 30 years to deliver complex finality solutions and manage their future claims.
