Dear member, On 4th February, 2019, the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry made a number of recommendations relating to the insurance industry in its Final Report. Recommendation 4.8, was that the “handling and settlement of insurance claims, or potential insurance claims, should [...]
Dear member, As reported in an email recently, AICLA and ANZIIF have entered a new seven-year agreement for the continued delivery of the Diploma of Loss Adjusting. This long-term contract cements the close relationship between ANZIIF and AICLA for the training and education of professional loss adjusters. The current [...]
Dear Member,We come to the end of another year and find ourselves reflecting on the last 12 months.AICLA has had a busy year with conferences, workshops, various division run education programs and networking events. We agreed to a new long-term delivery agreement with our education partner ANZIIF [...]
Dear Member, The emerging market in insurance is cyber security. As computer processes, cloud computing and the internet of things (IOT) continue to change our lives, it's certain that insurers will offer expanded protections against these new classes of risk. The question is our sector moving fast enough to develop [...]
Dear Member, As the newly elected President of AICLA, a brief background about me. I have been an AICLA Board member since 1999, having held board roles as Division Chairman (WA) and International Development Director since its inception in 2004. I am humbled and overwhelmed by the endorsement by the [...]
This is my last newsletter as President and caps the end of a very successful month. The highlight was the AICLA/ANZIIF Sydney Claims Convention, which had approximately 300 people in attendance. I particularly enjoyed being able to present Haryo Suseno, Melanie Richardson and Paul McConnell their awards for outstanding academic [...]
I have recently been reflecting on the role of the loss adjuster; the independent (?) and impartial (?) facilitator of the claim, sitting between the insurer and the insured. Are we independent and are we impartial? Leaving aside the legal distinction of independence and who pays our fees, I think [...]
Dear Member, One of the interesting parts of being President is setting the question for the Carey Bird Scholarship and then being on the marking panel for the submitted essays. This year we had a record nine entries. As you may recall, Carey Bird was a loss adjuster working in [...]
Dear member, It is pleasing to open my newsletter this month by telling you that we received nine entries into the Carey Bird scholarship essay. That is a record number of entries and, I like to think, is an encouraging sign for members’ willingness to undertake research and better [...]
Dear Member, April and May are probably the busiest months for AICLA. Last month I discussed the Asian Claims Convention held in April, and the subsequent visit to various centres in Asia to meet with members. Both activities were very successful and it was pleasing to be able to [...]
