H-1B Visa Claims Manager Jobs
Claims Manager jobs attract H-1B visa sponsorship from insurers, third-party administrators, and self-funded employers who need degree-level expertise in claims operations, regulatory compliance, and litigation oversight. The role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation under H-1B rules, making it a viable path for skilled professionals seeking employer-sponsored status.
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The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced claims leader to lead the strategy, governance, and performance of our third-party administrator (TPA) claim programs across multiple products, business segments, and jurisdictions.
This is a highly visible leadership role with responsibility for ensuring our TPA partners deliver fair, timely, accurate, and compliant claim outcomes while meeting our expectations for customer experience, financial performance, and operational quality.
You will serve as the senior business owner for key TPA relationships, lead a team of claims and vendor oversight professionals, partner closely with senior leaders across the organization, and influence how we manage outsourced claims operations at an enterprise level.
This role is ideal for a strategic P&C claims leader who knows how to balance technical claims expertise, vendor accountability, financial discipline, and strong relationships to drive results.
Lead TPA strategy and governance
- Set the strategy, operating model, and governance framework for TPA claim programs across products, programs, jurisdictions, and business segments.
- Establish and continuously improve service-level agreements, performance scorecards, claim-handling guidelines, authority levels, escalation protocols, and reporting standards.
- Lead TPA selection, onboarding, implementation, renewal, transition, and termination activities while protecting claim continuity and customer service.
Own TPA performance and relationships
- Serve as the senior relationship owner with TPA leadership, leading business reviews, performance discussions, escalations, and negotiations.
- Hold partners accountable for claim inventories, cycle time, customer experience, claim quality, reserve adequacy, settlement accuracy, leakage, litigation activity, regulatory compliance, and contractual commitments.
- Assess TPA capacity, staffing, training, licensing, business continuity, data security, and catastrophe readiness, and drive action plans when risks emerge.
Provide senior claims leadership
- Provide strategic direction on complex, high-exposure, litigated, escalated, or disputed claims, including coverage, reserves, litigation strategy, and settlement approach within delegated authority.
- Lead the audit, calibration, and quality assurance framework for TPA claim handling.
- Identify performance trends and root causes and ensure corrective actions deliver sustainable improvement.
Lead and develop a high-performing team
- Lead, coach, and develop managers, claim consultants, relationship managers, and vendor oversight professionals.
- Build leadership capability and bench strength while creating a culture of accountability, sound judgment, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Set clear goals and expectations and ensure the team has the tools, resources, and direction needed to deliver results.
Drive enterprise partnership and improvement
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Actuarial, Underwriting, Procurement, Operations, Technology, and business leaders on contracts, controls, data, reporting, systems, and service delivery.
- Develop and present performance dashboards, trend analysis, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations to senior and executive leadership.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across TPA processes, controls, technology, training, and operating models.
Manage financial performance
- Oversee department expenses as well as TPA fees, loss adjustment expenses, claim payments, reserves, vendor charges, and audit-related costs within delegated authority.
- Identify leakage and adverse financial trends, validate contractual billing and service outcomes, and drive corrective action.
- Establish financial performance targets and communicate results, trends, and risks to senior leadership.
What You'll Bring
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 10+ years of claims or related P&C insurance experience, including experience with TPA, vendor, program, or outsourced claims oversight.
- 5+ years of progressive leadership experience, including leading managers or multiple teams.
- Adjuster licenses for applicable states, with the ability to obtain and maintain additional licenses as needed.
- Deep knowledge of claim investigation, policy interpretation, coverage analysis, reserving, litigation management, settlement practices, fraud indicators, regulatory requirements, and claims financial controls.
- Demonstrated experience establishing governance models, service levels, vendor performance standards, claims audit programs, and corrective action plans.
- Experience interpreting and negotiating contracts, statements of work, authority levels, fee structures, reporting obligations, and governance requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior internal stakeholders and external business partners and drive accountability without direct authority.
- Experience managing budgets and using operational and financial data to identify trends, determine root causes, and drive measurable action plans.
- Strong executive communication, presentation, negotiation, relationship management, and change leadership skills.
We'd Especially Like to See
- Bachelor's degree in business, insurance, risk management, finance, or a related field.
- Experience leading multiple TPAs, outsourced claim programs, complex vendor relationships, or multi-state claims operations.
- Experience with procurement, contract negotiation, vendor risk management, implementations, conversions, or TPA transitions.
- Professional insurance designation such as AIC, CPCU, or SCLA.
- Experience with claims analytics, dashboards, quality assurance programs, process improvement, or enterprise change initiatives.
- Experience presenting to senior and executive leadership and contributing to broader claims strategy.
What Success Looks Like
In this role, success means building a TPA operating model that delivers:
- Consistent, high-quality claim outcomes
- Strong regulatory and contractual compliance
- Improved cycle time and customer experience
- Appropriate reserves and settlement outcomes
- Reduced leakage and unnecessary expense
- Clear accountability across TPA partners
- Strong visibility into performance, risk, and financial results
- Continuous improvement in claims controls, technology, and operational effectiveness
Work Environment & Travel
This role operates in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment and involves managing multiple external partners, competing priorities, confidential claim information, and significant financial and operational accountability.
Travel may be required for TPA site visits, business reviews, audits, implementation meetings, and leadership sessions. Occasional schedule flexibility may also be necessary to support urgent claims issues, catastrophe events, regulatory deadlines, or other critical operational needs.
Pay Range
$103,800.00 - $173,300.00
If no application deadline is provided, this role may be a pipeline requisition, and we'll continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis, or there is no requirement for this information in the location where the role is posted.
Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience, and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.
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What’s the culture like at Assurant?
Our unique culture is a big reason why talented people choose Assurant. Named a Best/Great Place to Work in 14 countries and awarded the Fortune America’s Most Innovative Companies recognition, we bring together top talent around the world. Although we have a wide variety of skills and experiences, we share common characteristics that are uniquely Assurant. A passion for service. An ability to innovate in practical ways. And a willingness to take chances. We call our culture The Assurant Way.
Company Overview
Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.
AI and Biometric Usage
Assurant supports the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but we want to know the real you. Visit our AI Usage Guidelines page to understand what we expect from applicants regarding their use of AI during the application process. Since we would like to know the real you, we require that all of our virtual interviews be conducted on video.
Employment is contingent upon completion of a required identity verification process, which may include biometric technology, where permitted by applicable law and subject to applicable notice and consent requirements. See our Privacy Notice to learn about Assurant’s privacy practices, including our use of AI-enabled technology, automated decision making, and biometric information.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Assurant is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not use or consider race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in employment decisions.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Claims Manager
Align your credentials to specialty occupation standards
Claims Manager roles qualify as H-1B specialty occupations when tied to a bachelor's degree in risk management, business administration, finance, or a related field. Document how your degree directly supports your claims duties before your employer files the I-129 petition.
Verify prevailing wages before accepting an offer
Your employer must certify your salary meets the DOL prevailing wage for your specific location and job duties. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the wage level for Claims Manager roles in your worksite city before negotiations begin.
Target insurers with multi-state claims operations
Large property-casualty insurers, workers' compensation carriers, and third-party administrators run multi-state claims departments with dedicated HR teams experienced in H-1B filings. Focus your search on Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified H-1B LCA sponsorship history for this role.
Confirm each worksite has a certified LCA on file
If your role involves supervising adjusters across multiple office locations, each worksite requires its own certified Labor Condition Application. Ask your employer's HR team which locations are already covered before you agree to a position with travel or hybrid expectations.
Use O*NET to build your specialty occupation argument
The O*NET occupation profile for Claims Managers lists analytical, regulatory, and decision-making tasks that reinforce degree-level complexity. Reference these task descriptions when your employer drafts the support letter that accompanies your I-129 petition with USCIS.
Plan your timeline around the 60-day grace period
If you're transitioning from a previous H-1B employer, you have a 60-day grace period after your last day to secure a new petition filing. Confirm your prospective employer can file before that window closes, since USCIS must receive the new petition within that period to maintain your status.
H-1B Visa Claims Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Claims Manager role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, when the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in risk management, business administration, finance, insurance, or a closely related field as a standard entry requirement. The employer must demonstrate in the I-129 petition that the role routinely involves degree-level judgment in areas like coverage analysis, litigation oversight, or regulatory compliance, not just administrative claims processing.
Which employers commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Claims Manager positions?
Property-casualty insurers, workers' compensation carriers, managed care organizations, and large third-party administrators are the most active H-1B sponsors for Claims Manager roles. Self-insured corporations with in-house claims departments also file regularly. You can browse verified sponsors with active LCA filing history for this role on Migrate Mate.
How does the LCA process work for a Claims Manager job?
Your employer files a Labor Condition Application with DOL before submitting your I-129 petition to USCIS. The LCA certifies that your offered salary meets the prevailing wage for a Claims Manager at your specific worksite and that hiring you won't adversely affect similarly employed U.S. workers. DOL typically certifies LCAs within seven business days.
Can my H-1B status cover Claims Manager roles at multiple office locations?
Not automatically. Each distinct worksite must have its own certified LCA on file before you begin working there. If your role involves supervising regional teams or rotating between branch offices, your employer needs to file separate LCAs for each location. Failing to cover additional worksites is a common compliance gap that USCIS and DOL audits flag.
What happens to my H-1B status if I'm promoted from Claims Analyst to Claims Manager?
A material change in job duties, title, or salary typically requires your employer to file an amended I-129 petition with USCIS before the promotion takes effect. Claims Manager carries different SOC classification and prevailing wage levels than a claims analyst role, so the existing petition may no longer accurately describe your position. Confirm with your employer's immigration counsel before accepting the new title.