The next public meeting of Freuchie Flood Action Group is a presentation from Arthur Philp from the Association of British Insurers (ABI), during which we shall hear about the insurance industries perspective of flooding and how this may affect all residents of Freuchie and other flood affected communities.

Once again, we’re delighted to have secured such a high profile expert speaker to come along to present to flood survivors and other residents of Freuchie and beyond. 

Thanks go again to the Lomond Hills Hotel for providing the venue.

Date & Time
5th February 2009 at 7:00 for 7:15pm

Venue
Lomond Hills Hotel – Freuchie

Abstract
During this presentation, Arthur will explain the Statement of Principles for flood insurance, with the main aim at the meeting to cover – "What property owners need to do to help protect their property from future flooding and to help their insurer provide them with the best possible terms for future insurance."

After a short presentation Arthur will offer an opportunity to touch upon the presentation content and other flood and insurance matters of interest within a question and answer session. Arthur doesn’t pretend to have all the answers, but he is genuinely interested in hearing the problems from the audience’s perspective. This is an important area where the insurance industry recognises the need to understand problems better and ensure all concerned work towards providing better solutions.

The developments in the new Scottish Flooding Bill should be touched upon during the talk and Q&A session.

Speaker Biography
After graduating from Aberdeen University, in mathematics, Arthur Philp has spent virtually all of his career in insurance – initially within IT developing insurance administration systems, then in project management and for the last 20 years, in Underwriting Household Insurance.

Although employed by Norwich Union, he is currently on part-time secondment to the insurance industry trade body, the Association of British Insurers (ABI). This follows a seven month full time secondment as a member of a joint working group with Government on the review of the Statement of Principles for flood insurance. Current work involves completing negotiations on the Statement of Principles for flood insurance with the devolved Governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as continuing work on provision of flood risk data to insurers from the Environment Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Northern Ireland Rivers Agency.

Within Norwich Union he is the Underwriting Development Manager for Household insurance, working within a department responsible for Underwriting Strategy. Arthur has been involved in considering the problems of insuring property against flood both within Norwich Union and with ABI since the early nineties when insurers had initial concerns about the increasing risk of coastal flooding in the South East of England due to climate change and, of course, significant river flooding in Perth (1993) and Glasgow (1994).

Arthur is a Chartered Insurer and has been working in the insurance industry for the past 35 years. He also represents the ABI in Scotland as a member of the Government’s Flooding Bill Advisory Group.

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