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On The Scene (February 01, 2010)


January 31, 2010   by


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Donald N. Hull has been promoted to vice president, Ontario region, at McLarens Canada. In his 36-year career, Hull has been director and the senior executive for an international claims company, both in Canada and internationally. He has also previously been vice president of a major Canadian property management concern, and has managed claims services branches in London, Kitchener, Hamilton and Toronto. A past president of the Canadian Independent Adjusters’ Association, Hull holds the coveted Chartered Loss Adjuster designation. Reporting to Dennis Schembri, executive vice-president, Eastern Canada, Hull will be responsible for assisting claims managers, examiners and risk managers in reducing claims losses and optimizing customer satisfaction.

Granite Global Solutions made a donation of $20,000 to the Canadian Red Cross for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

The partner companies McLarens Canada, Sibley & Associates, Rochon Engineering, King-Reed Investigation Services and Henderson Structured Settlements all contributed.

“We operate in the claims management arena and are therefore extremely familiar with hardship caused by small incidents or major disasters,” Murray Wallace, president and CEO of Granite Global Solutions, said. “But this disaster is so large and affects so many people; we have to do what we can to help.”

Dave Prociuk is the recipient of the Jack Byers Award. Prociuk, with Allied Claims Adjusters Ltd. in Regina, received the award at the Insurance Brokers’ Association of Saskatch-ewan (IBAS)’s convention in October.

The Jack Byers Award is presented annually by the IBAS board of governors to an individual who has made a noteworthy contribution to the Sask-atchewan insurance industry.

Prociuk has devoted more than 35 years to serving and enhancing the insurance industry as a claims adjuster. •

Dennis N. Schembri CIP, CFEI, has been promoted to executive vice president, Eastern Canada. In his 29-year career, Schembri has worked as a branch manager with a major independent adjusting firm and later founded and operated Vanler Insurance Adjusters Ltd, an Ontario-based independent adjusting firm with approx 50 employees and offices in Mississauga, Hamilton, Markham, London, Sudbury and Ottawa. He joined McLarens Canada when Vanler was acquired by McLarens in September 2007. Reporting to Mike Holden, president, Schembri will be responsible for assisting the Ontario and Eastern Canada vice presidents in enhancing customer satisfaction and growing their regions.

A.S.A.P. Secured Inc. has launched a mobile command centre for easy deployment to large loss sites across Ontario. The centre will allow adjusters and other insurance industry professionals to offer immediate assistance and support to their customers in the midst of a crisis or disaster. The 17-foot mobile command centre is equipped with an Internetready computer, printer, copier and scanner.

It will allow on-site preparation, reporting and spontaneous meetings between adjustors and engineers in the event of large-scale losses.

The command centre itself serves as a significant visual deterrent to potential criminal activity, A.S.A. P adds.

Cunningham Lindsey has launched Cunningham Lindsey Research Services (CLRS).

CLRS provides intelligence gathering, special investigations and surveillance services to assist in the adjudication of insurance claims.

“From researching background information and verifying details, to gathering video surveillance and conducting interviews, the services provided by this in-house unit are done so with an objective perspective of each file,” a Cunningham Lindsey release says.

Martin Maylor will serve as director of the unit. He brings more than 20 years experience investigating claims for both life and health and property and casualty industries in Canada, the United States and across Europe.

Woman in Insurance Cancer Crusade (WICC) platinum sponsor Cunningham Lindsey has launched an innovative fundraising event that’s soon to turn personal losses into WICC’s gains.

Employees Martin Moran, Albert Poon, John Seyler, Kenny Huang and Mike Laberge have accepted a challenge to lose weight over the next six months. Each will try to lose the largest percentage of body weight by Jun. 30. The contestant who loses the least percentage of weight must treat the other ‘biggest losers,’ and their spouses, to a lavish sushi dinner.

In the spirit of healthy competition, the contestants are accepting $5 pledges, which will be donated to WICC, from supporters who, in exchange for their donation, can enter a pledge form on which they submit their best guess as to the percentage of body weight a participant will lose. The top five entries that come closest to guessing the actual results will win one of five bottles of wine donated by Cunningham Lindsey.

So far, Cunningham Lindsey employees have raised more than $500. The “biggest losers” will continue to accept pledges through to the end of June and welcome other members of the insurance industry to join in. If you are interested in weighing in your guess and $5 donation, contact Martin at 905-896-8181 or mmoran@cl-na.com

Stephen Scullion, director of professional development at Crawford & Company (Canada) Inc. has been awarded the Fellow of the Canadian Independent Adjusters’ Association (FCIAA). The FCIAA designation is awarded to members of the Canadian Independent Adjusters’ Association (CIAA) who possess outstanding qualifications and at least 15 years of practical experience in the adjustment of loss. Scullion not only possesses those qualifications, but through his efforts outside the adjustment of loss has also made a real and recognized contribution to the insurance industry. Those contributions include numerous years as an Insurance Institute of Canada instructor and marker, as well as writing articles and presenting seminars to various segments of our industry.

For completing the CIAA survey, three lucky winners received an iPod.

Patti Kernaghan, president of the CIAA, presents an iPod to Leona Ashcroft of Ashcroft Insurance Adjusters in Nelson, B.C.

Miles Barber past president of the CIAA, presents Heather Hannah of Manitoba Public Insurance, with an iPod. The prize will be placed into an employee prize draw collection — as is practice with all employee-won prizes at MPI. The company will then sell tickets to win the items in the collection with all the money raised going to local charities.

Richard Van Horne, CIAA Nova Scotia region first vice president, presents an iPod to Jane Richardson of Crawford Adjusters (Canada) Inc. in Dartmouth, N.S.


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