Professional Services - Standard · PDF fileOffering exceptional professional expertise Charles Taylor is a people business. We bring together teams of professional insurance experts

Professional Servicesfor global insurance markets

Providing professional services to clients in the global insurance market

Insurance is essential for successful international commerce. It provides

the financial security businesses need to trade goods, make capital

investments, protect their workforces and shield their assets.

At Charles Taylor, we provide professional services to make the business of insurance work efficiently. Whether you are

an insurer, a broker or an insurance client we provide a complete range of professional services to meet your needs.

We manage mutual insurance companies, adjust large and complex insurance claims and provide a complete range of

outsourced insurance services worldwide.

c. 1,000 staff

48 offices

24 countriesAs a company with around 1,000 staff engaged in all aspects of insurance management we can draw on a wide and deep pool of skills, knowledge and technical expertise.

Delivering a complete professional serviceOur range of technical skills and insurance knowledge means we can manage and resolve virtually any insurance-related matter, wherever it occurs in the world. We operate through three professional services businesses:

• Management Services: provides end-to-end management of insurance companies.

• Adjusting Services: focuses on adjusting larger and more complex commercial losses.

• Insurance Support Services: provides stand-alone professional and technical services.

We regularly combine skills across our businesses to deliver innovative solutions to insurers, their clients and advisers and businesses worldwide.

Committed to service excellenceCharles Taylor does not offer off-the-shelf solutions. We deliver high quality, individually tailored services to all our clients, backed by our core values:

• Excellence: We recruit, train and develop highly skilled, technically excellent, professional staff.

• Partnership: We have a partnership ethos and work closely with our clients to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes.

• Quality: We have a genuine pride in delivering high quality work. We live by our reputation in professional services and it is this focus which underpins all we do.

• Support: We work within a supportive, collegiate culture to deliver the best possible outcome to our clients.

Professional services for global insurance marketsCharles Taylor plc


Management ServicesProvides end-to-end management of mutual insurance companies.

The Management Services business delivers a complete outsourced management service covering every aspect of mutual insurance companies’ operations. These include the management of underwriting and claims, the provision of regulatory and accounting services, as well as corporate governance and company secretarial services.

We manage three mutual insurance companies:

• The Standard Club, which provides liability insurance to around 9% of world shipping.

• Signal Mutual, the largest provider of Longshore workers’ compensation insurance to the US maritime industry.

• SCALA, which provides workers’ compensation to the majority of Canada’s ship owners.

Our knowledge and expertise in insurance company management means we are ideally placed to establish new mutual insurance companies and identify opportunities for new insurance collectives.

Our Management Services business operates from offices in the UK, Americas and Asia.

To find out more about our Management Services, please contact:

Alistair Groom, Head of Management Services, UK and International

Joe Roach, Head of Management Services, Americas

We are an experienced manager of mutuals and have a proven track record of successfully delivering excellent service to our mutual management and insurance industry clients.

Case Study

Costa ConcordiaWhen the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, Charles Taylor’s claims team responded immediately. The vessel was entered in the Standard Club, managed by Charles Taylor, which insures the owners’ third party liabilities. Our claims team acted swiftly to work with the shipowner and local partners to put measures in place to protect the fragile environment, compensate passengers, and appoint salvage experts to remove the wreck.

“The Standard Club and its reinsurers are meeting the liability insurance costs of this very complex casualty,” said Alistair Groom, Head of Management Services, UK and International. “As the managers of the Standard Club our role is to minimise further losses and quickly and efficiently settle legitimate claims, while acting in the best interests of the club’s member and working with great sensitivity in a situation where people sadly lost their lives. This is a complex claim, including organising the biggest wreck removal operation ever undertaken.”



Adjusting ServicesFocuses on adjusting larger and more complex commercial losses.

The Adjusting Services business provides loss adjusting services across four main sectors: aviation, energy, marine and property and casualty, which includes average adjusting for ship owners. We focus primarily on larger and more complex commercial losses arising from major insured incidents and claims.

We offer insurers, reinsurers, owners, operators and their professional advisers a comprehensive claims adjusting service. We work in close partnership with all parties to a claim to resolve complex matters in a constructive, professional and technically accurate manner.

• Loss adjustment: Adjusting claims on behalf of insurers and reinsurers.

• Average adjusting: Adjusting marine insurance claims with the ability to handle larger general average losses.

• Claims management: Providing a comprehensive management service following major multi-layer and multi-insurer losses.

• Damage surveys: Delivering professional analysis of losses by technical experts.

• Dispute resolution: Resolving complex claim disputes through our qualified mediators and arbitrators.

• Litigation and legal support: Providing technical guidance and expert testimony in legal disputes.

Our Adjusting Services business operates from offices in Europe, Middle East, Americas and Asia.

To find out more about our Adjusting Services, please contact:

Arthur Clarke, Chief Executive Officer, Charles Taylor Adjusting

We use the latest technology and innovative tools to provide the highest quality response to major claims and deliver a service unlike any other adjuster.

Case Study

Canadian Oil Sands ClaimAn explosion at an oil sands extraction plant in Northern Alberta, Canada caused widespread property damage and resulted in a seven-and-a-half month plant shut-down. This generated one of the largest claims in recent memory with a total impact to insurers in excess of US$1bn.

Charles Taylor was appointed to deal with the combined property damage and business interruption claim by London market reinsurers. We created an in-house team of adjusters, engineers, accountants and support staff

based in our London, Calgary and Geneva offices supported by external experts. We employed innovative technology to co-ordinate the efforts of the team and to communicate the results with a large market of interested reinsurers.

Our innovations were well received by the market, leading to us winning the Claims Team of the Year award at the London Markets Awards and the Cuthbert Heath major loss award at the Insider Honours in 2012: “Your performance remains stellar. Communications, innovation, web repository and reserve range calculator are leading differentiators,” said a leading market participant.



Insurance Support Services Delivers stand-alone professional and technical services.

The Insurance Support Services business offers professional services which enable our clients to select the specific stand-alone services they require, including: outsourced insurance support services, insurance company run-off services, investment management, captive management and specialty risk management.

Our outsourced Insurance Support Services include:

• Managed claims service: for both live insurance business and closed insurance books in run-off.

• Coverholder services: including binder management and audit.

• Financial reporting service: for Lloyd’s syndicates, managing agents and corporate members.

• Managing general agency services: all the operational and administrative functions to run an MGA.

• Run-off servicing: for offshore life and non-life insurance companies.

• Investment management: offering expertise in asset allocation bonds and equity asset management.

• Alternative risk services: including captive management and niche insurance covers.

Our Insurance Support Services business operates from offices in the UK, Europe and Americas.

To find out more about our Insurance Support Services, please contact:

Stephen Card, Chief Executive Officer, Charles Taylor Insurance Services

Clients come to us because we are able to help them operate and manage their businesses more effectively as well as reducing their costs.

Case Study

Lloyd’s Static ClaimsCharles Taylor has implemented an effective programme to reduce the number of static claims in Lloyd’s, helping the market to build upon its reputation for fast and fair claims handling.

Static claims are those which have been notified to insurers but no update has been received over a 12 month period. Existing systems intended to address static claims were not effective and the number

of static claims, below £100,000 Lloyd’s market share, had grown to over 47,000.

We were appointed by the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) to address the problem. We innovated by establishing a dedicated team of specialists and created new systems to effectively handle, track and update static claims. The programme commenced in mid-2011 and by late 2012 we had successfully reduced the number of outstanding claims by volume 56% and value 60%.


Offering exceptional professional expertise

Charles Taylor is a people business. We bring together teams of professional insurance experts to resolve the most complex of insurance issues worldwide. We differentiate ourselves through the quality of our people and the breadth of our expertise. Many of our staff hold professional qualifications. Our senior people offer superior technical knowledge gained through many years of practical experience.

AccountantsActuariesAeronautical EngineersAverage AdjustersAviation SurveyorsBarristersBrokersCaptive ManagersChartered SurveyorsChemical EngineersClaims ManagersClaims Brokers

Control of Well EngineersElectrical EngineersExpert WitnessesInvestment ManagersForensic AccountantsGeotechnical EngineersLawyersLoss AdjustersMarine EngineersMarine SurveyorsMaster MarinersMechanical Engineers

MediatorsModellersNaval ArchitectsPetrochemical EngineersPre-Risk SurveyorsRisk ManagersShipbrokersSolicitorsStructural EngineersUnderwriters


We have offices strategically located around the world to be near where our clients are based and to provide services where they are required. Today we have around 1,000 staff in 48 offices, spread across countries in the UK, Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and Middle East.

Positioned to respond

Europe and Middle EastBelgiumFranceGreeceIsle of ManItalyQatarRepublic of IrelandSwitzerlandUnited Arab EmiratesUnited Kingdom

Asia PacificAustraliaChinaIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaRepublic of KoreaSingaporeTaiwan

AmericasBermudaCanadaColombiaMexicoUnited States of America

For further information about Charles Taylor and our professional services for clients in the global insurance market, please see our website: www.ctplc.com or call us on: +44 20 3320 8888

David MarockGroup Chief Executive Officer, Charles Taylor [email protected] +44 20 3320 8988

Management ServicesAlistair Groom Head of Management Services, UK and International [email protected] +44 20 3320 8899

Joe Roach Head of Management Services, Americas [email protected] +1-972-865-8042

Adjusting ServicesArthur Clarke Chief Executive Officer, Charles Taylor Adjusting [email protected] +44 20 7398 5300

Insurance Support ServicesStephen Card Chief Executive Officer, Charles Taylor Insurance Services [email protected] +44 20 7767 2943

Investment ManagementDoug JonesChief Executive Officer, Charles Taylor Investment [email protected] +44 20 3320 2321

Life Insurance ServicingJeffrey MoreChief Executive Officer, Life Insurance [email protected] +44 1624 683602

Captive ManagementAndy McCombChief Executive Officer, Captive [email protected] +1 441 278 7700

Specialty RisksMartin FoneChief Executive Officer, Charles Taylor [email protected] +44 20 7767 2918

Charles Taylor is a public company quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Our listed status helps to provide assurances of rigorous corporate governance and internal control arrangements. To find out more about investing in our shares, please visit our investor pages at: www.ctplc.com/investors or the London Stock Exchange (Charles Taylor plc, code: CTR) at: www.londonstockexchange.com

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Professional Services - Standard · PDF fileOffering exceptional professional expertise Charles Taylor is a people business. We bring together teams of professional insurance experts