Location: UK

Cunningham Lindsey is pleased to announce that Maina Wagiciengo has joined FAS Global.  As Senior Manager, based in Cunningham Lindsey’s Glasgow office, Maina will undertake economic loss quantification engagements of varying scope, working alongside the company’s Major Loss Team in the region.

Maina was previously with Charles Taylor Adjusting Energy division, where he was responsible for quantifying financial losses primarily relating to offshore and onshore energy claims.  Prior to this, he was Senior Accountant at MDD Forensic Accountants, where he trained and qualified.

Maina has a wealth of experience in business interruption related assignments, including loss of profits, increased costs of working and damaged and destroyed stock recoveries.  He’s also worked on fraud investigations and economic loss assignments associated with litigated disputes. Specialist industry areas include oil and gas, mining, paper and pulp, power generation, textiles, hotels & resorts, retail, ports and terminals and petrochemicals.

Matt Griffin, Head of FAS Global, said:  “It’s a pleasure to welcome Maina to FAS Global.  His skills and wide industry sector experience will provide valuable support to our Major and Complex Loss team both in Scotland and across the rest of the UK.”

Cunningham Lindsey has promoted two new experts and recruited a motor claims specialist for its Complex Loss & Motor Investigation teams in the UK.

Stephen Feeney joins the Leeds team as a complex loss specialist.  Stephen has been with the business for over nine years, previously working as a casualty adjuster.  Prior to that he was a commercial property and liability adjuster with Buckley Scott and senior liability claims handler with AXA before that.

Simon Wheeler joins the team in Bristol as a complex loss specialist.  Simon has similarly been with the business for some nine years and prior to this new appointment, was a liability adjuster.  He will primarily provide support on losses around the M5 and M4 corridors, as well as Devon, Cornwall, South Wales and Birmingham.

Noel Blaney joins the company as Motor Investigations Team Leader.  Noel has 24 years motor insurance experience, having worked for DirectLine previously as a team leader, working on both personal lines and commercial motor claims across the UK.

Simon Hiscock, Client Director for Cunningham Lindsey, said:  “We put a huge amount of effort into succession planning and our two internal promotions are a testament to the wealth of talent we’re developing within the business – we certainly didn’t need to look very far to find the best skills for both of these roles.  We’re also pleased to welcome Noel Blaney to the team – he has an excellent track record in motor claims investigations and his experience is a real asset to our motor team.”

Cunningham Lindsey are responding to the passage of Hurricane Matthew in the Bahamas and are readying ourselves for it making landfall in the US.

In the Bahamas, Andrew Wilson, previously our Bahamian country manager, has a team of 5 adjusting and surveying staff already in Nassau.

We are in a centrally located location in Nassau and will be in a position to respond immediately following the passing of the storm in the event that access is limited or delayed as far as incoming flights are concerned.

Further staff are readied for deployment early next week.

In the US, Cullen Sophy, Cunningham Lindsey’s Head of MCL in the US, is coordinating our CAT team preparedness for the arrival of Matthew in Florida. We also have drone deployment capability which we are readying for use if required as well.

In a move that reflects the growth in demand for global, forensic analysis, Cunningham Lindsey has launched FAS Global – offering a worldwide, seamless service that delivers better outcomes for insurers and policyholders.

Mark Thompson, head of FAS Global said:
“Business today is more inter-connected and global than ever before. The result is increasingly complex loss scenarios that may not have been envisaged when policy wordings were written or placed – often in parts of the world and circumstances that are very challenging. To unravel the story and to get under the skin of the financial aspects of a complex loss requires global reach, specialised forensic accounting skills and expertise in economic loss analysis and quantification.

“FAS Global is able to do just that, with a global footprint and offices in the United States, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, Middle East, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. The combination of Cunningham Lindsey’s Major and Complex Loss business and FAS Global creates the best of both worlds, so that our clients know they will be able to access the right expertise, in the right place, at the right time.”

Matthew Griffin, Head of FAS Global UK said:
“In the UK, our office has grown threefold in the past 18 months, demonstrating the increased demand for forensic auditing techniques and the services we provide. Most importantly our services offer a good return on investment for our clients, helping them to control the cost of complex claims and, at the same time getting businesses back on their feet faster.”

FAS Global’s clients include: insurers; lawyers; and public entities; and the range of services offered includes: analysis of financial aspects of insurance claims (business interruption and stock losses), expert witness work; business valuations; dispute resolution and fraud investigation.

Forensic Advisory Services’  Director, Litigation and Dispute Services, Daniel Djanogly will moderate a Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London Branch) seminar hosted by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) on 7 June. Anyone interested in attending should register using the details below.

Arbitration, mediation and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) offer parties, amongst other things, privacy, control over the proceedings, procedural flexibility and choice of dispute resolver. The promise in principle is a quicker and cheaper route to binding resolution compared to formal court based litigation proceedings. However ADR in practice must contend with the choices made by the parties in terms of, for example, how they have contractually provided for the application of ADR in their business relationships, the procedural rules to be adopted, and their attitude and behaviour before, during and after the procedure. As a result ADR too suffers complaints particularly in terms of cost, time consumption, unpredictability and uncertainty. From their unique perspectives and based on their extensive experience serving the dispute resolution needs of the insurance industry, our distinguished panel of speakers will address “What do Insurers need out of ADR?” Audience participation in the discussion will be welcome and time will be provided for this. The seminar should be of interest to: insurers, brokers, legal advisers, in-house counsel, experts and other professionals involved in arbitration and ADR generally.

 Jonathan Wood is Head of International Arbitration at RPC based in London and Singapore. He is a Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has (too) many years’ experience of insurance and reinsurance arbitration both representing parties and as arbitrator, in relation to credit and political risk (acting for HMG’s Export Credits Guarantee Department for over 25 years), marine, energy, property and casualty, Bermuda Form, fine art and specie insurance.

 Colin Edelman QC of Devereux Chambers, specialises in high value complex commercial disputes with an emphasis on insurance, reinsurance, professional indemnity and energy. He has been involved in high profile litigation and arbitration affecting the London and international insurance markets, including disputes arising out of most major natural disasters and financial collapses of the last decade. He was authorised to sit as Deputy High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench Division) and as Deputy High Court Judge in the Commercial Court in 2008 and 2012 respectively. Colin was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund Ltd as of 1 April 2013, having been a Director since 2007 and a Deputy Chairman since 2009. Colin was voted ‘Insurance Silk of the Year’ at the Chambers Bar Awards in 2007, 2010 and 2015 which also voted him ‘Professional Negligence Silk of the Year’ in 2014.

 Phillippa Rowe Senior Partner, Phillippa Ross & Co, Reinsurance Consultancy & Reviews, a firm providing professional services to the non-marine insurance and reinsurance market. Phillippa is a Chartered Insurance Practitioner, FCII, accredited mediator, member of the INREM panel of mediators, member of the ARIAS (UK) arbitration and mediation Panels and Fellow of The Academy of Experts. Phillippa has extensive experience of London market and world-wide reinsurance principles and practice, gathered over fourteen years as a leading market participant in the role of Claims Manager for the Kiln syndicate at Lloyds, and twenty five years as an independent reinsurance consultant. Current professional activities include sitting as a mediator and arbitrator and acting as an expert witness, as well as provision of technical consultancy, audit and inspection services on reinsurance, binding authority and insurance matters. Phillippa is Past Chairman of The Academy of Experts.

 Daniel Djanogly is Director, Litigation and Dispute Services, at Forensic Advisory Services (London) which is a global forensic accounting practice and a division of Cunningham Lindsey, one of the largest loss adjusting and claims management companies in the world. He is a forensic accountant, expert witness, expert determiner and Chartered Arbitrator. He specialises in the resolution of accounting, financial and valuation issues in complex business-related disputes, commercial insurance claims, fraud and financial crime matters. He is a Committee Member of the CIArb London Branch.

Following the seminar, which will conclude at around 8 pm, RPC will generously host a reception for the speakers and all attendees. There is no charge to attend this seminar but, in view of capacity limitations, attendees MUST register in advance with Elinor Pritchard at [email protected] . The event will carry 1.5 CPD points.