Tackling Property Flood Risk
In this engaging live webinar, leaders from the insurance and flood resilience industry will jointly discuss and demystify the present flood risk challenges facing real estate in the UK. This webinar will outline how new and innovative approaches are now helping to reduce the overall risk profile of properties in flood prone areas, and how insurers and loss adjusters can directly utilise these solutions themselves.
Join us for an interactive session that promises to empower and inform, fostering a collective commitment to building a more resilient future.
Aaron Jones
Aaron is a Director at Ashfield Solutions Group and is also the Flood and Climate Change Lead at D-Risk Group, which is part of CLSQ. His extensive knowledge of the intricacies around flood risk and its impacts upon the UK property lifecycle for owners, insurers and lenders means that he is in prime place to offer value driven risk management advice to a broad range of stakeholders. Aaron has been instrumental in the development and rollout of the D-Risk FloodPro report, designed to aid insurers and loss adjusters to successfully deliver the FlooRe Build Back Better scheme.
Graham Brogden MBE
Graham spent 20 years working in the insurance industry for Aviva. Prior to retiring in 2019, he was the Head of Technical Claims Service at Aviva, responsible for the major loss teams for property and specialty lines. Graham is also a former Chair of the DEFRA Property Flood Resilience Round Table, and is now an ambassador for Resilico, which is an innovative mobile service and data platform, enabling Property Flood Resilience to be mainstreamed in adherence to the industry code of practice.
Ian Gibbs
Ian is a National Technical Manager for Sedgwick UK. His background is in the Insurance sector, initially as an adjuster/surveyor, project managing the claim/repair of domestic and commercial buildings. Then as a manager focusing on repairing building damage from general perils, specifically flood. He has developed a service to the Insurance market, to provide flood resilient advice and repairs. Ian also works with the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), producing and delivering the training materials to Property Flood Resilient stakeholders including surveyors, insurers and engineers within the flood and wider construction industry.
The webinar will aim to better inform persons and organisations who are actively involved in the provision of insurance and loss adjustment for both residential and commercial property across the UK and beyond. Lenders who have a requirement to better forecast real estate based financial risks will also benefit from this webinar.
With numerous storms having already affected thousands of properties nationwide this winter, it is clear that flooding will keep elevating in prominence as one of the key risk sources needing better management in future. The insurance and lending industry have a massive part to play in the overall reduction in risk from this source, and now, a simpler way to effectively deliver this has been developed. This webinar will outline how it is now easier than ever for insurers and lenders to become more empowered in knowing how to better manage their customers risk profiles, as well as their own.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- Understanding how to manage flood risk can be a simple process if approached correctly, using the right tools.
- Through empowering yourself on knowledge around flood risk management, you will also be empowering your end customer.
- That expert flood risk advice doesn’t necessarily need to be complex, long-winded or take forever to obtain.
Got a question to ask the panel? Please let us know in advance by emailing stephanie.hiscock@clsl.co.uk