Job Description
1. Minimum Candidate Qualifications:
The candidate must have a minimum of:
a. Proof of eligibility to work in NYS.
b. A Bachelor’s Degree.
c. Paralegal Certificate.
d. One year of full-time legal or paralegal work experience with the same employer.
2. Job Description and Required Services:
Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
• The paralegal will be trained in the use of the Insurance Frauds Bureau’s case management system and is expected to use the system to process tips and information from various sources who have information about insurance fraud and other criminal activities.
• Additional duties will include conducting preliminary information gathering on intake complaints, collecting relevant evidentiary records and documents, writing detailed intake reports, and entering information in the fraud case management system
• The paralegal will be expected to address complaints transmitted by phone calls, voicemails, and emails.
• Additional duties include liaising with complainants, IFB criminal investigators and personnel from law enforcement, government agencies, and insurance companies, and preparing correspondence, including contact letters, and forms related to intake complaints
• Other duties as assigned.
Candidates should possess the following skills:
• Knowledge of basic legal processes; legal terminology and legal forms; legal research techniques, ability to read, understand and interpret laws, legal documents and other written material.