President's blog

This will be my last blog - our AGM takes place tomorrow. What should I say in this blog? Our Annual Report and the AGM are the appropriate ways in which to make everybody who has helped me in my Presidential term. So perhaps it would be best to look to the future.

I have been asked what I intend to do when I cease being President. Whilst I have kept up my day job, it is still a fair question. The answer is that I want to continue doing one of the best jobs I can imagine doing - handling claims. It is a wonderfully stimulating and diverse job and I would recommend it to anyone. If job satisfaction was the sole criterion the search for the next generation of loss adjusters would be simple.

Why the title? The second major bout of flooding occurred just over a week ago. As a result the work loads for Loss Adjusters are greater than they have ever been. Over that same weekend my employers were engaged on a multi million pound fire claim. Working with a team of colleagues this claim has been added to our bulging portfolio and, along with various flood claims I know what I will be going, at least for the rest of this year, and I hope for the foreseeable future.

It has been a privilege to be President of the CILA and I wish my successor Malcolm Edwards every success and look forward to reading his blogs.