Saltwater Insurance Consultants

General Counsel. Company Secretary. CFO. Often the executive with management and reporting responsibility for a corporation’s insurance program. Often with no more experience with insurance than getting a quote or two for their home or car. And often with a little niggle in their day to day life that they don’t quite have a handle on the insurance program, what the broker is up to (or indeed, who they are)… sound familiar? Perhaps we should chat…

Its a conversation we understand. We enjoy taking care of that niggle. We like getting insurance programs up and running that are relevant, rigorous and right for the risk appetite of our clients. And we thoroughly enjoy encouraging, cajoling and working with brokers to get the best out of their services, their market relationships and their considerable experience, on behalf of our client.

We aren’t brokers – though we know their business from our having been “inside the tent” - and we aren’t remunerated by insurers. We simply act for corporations to effectively design, manage and purchase the transfer of risk via insurance. And we understand it can be an enormous spend – Chris Stannage has taken that deep breath when the bill hits 8 figures … so we like to get it right, and to explore self insurance strategies that might drive that spend a lot more effectively.

In the property & construction sector, we regularly work alongside some of the finest law firms in the country, complementing their work with our unique combination of industry knowledge, experience and technical skills. We happily argue why a financier doesn’t want to be a named insured on a contractor’s professional indemnity policy, but should be on the contract works and public liability policies. We enjoy that level of detail – indeed, we can talk all day about construction insurance (and often do, at industry forums and conferences). And we’ve climbed all over towers, stadiums and hospitals under construction in Australia, New Zealand, Dubai and the UK alongside some of the leading construction underwriters and technical risk advisors, so our advice to clients is couched in relevant industry terms.

So if you’d like to sort out your broker, sleep well at night knowing your insurance program will respond when you think it should, and learn more about insuring your corporation in your industry than you really thought possible, give Chris Stannage a call.