Property Insurance - building for natural hazards

Future insurance for all of New Zealand’s natural hazards is no longer guaranteed. We must adapt by adopting more resilient practices both in land management and construction.

Broadcast live from the Environmental Law Conference, this session will offer key insights into:

• current insurance market conditions
• earthquake resilience initiatives
• climate risk reduction strategy with a focus on mitigating flood risk through collaborative partnerships with both local and central government.

Learning objectives

By attending this session you will:

• Understand current insurance market conditions.
• Learn about some Insurance Council of New Zealand stakeholder engagement and current initiatives.
• Be able to apply this knowledge in your practice.

Who should attend 

All lawyers.

Presenters

James Baigent
Insurance Council of New Zealand, Wellington

James is the Resilience Leader at ICNZ. He is focussed on how the insurance sector can support natural hazard risk reduction and resilience to maintain the availability of insurance.

John Lucas
Insurance Council of New Zealand, Wellington

John is the ICNZ Insurance Manager who has assisted insurers and local and central government to respond to major disasters. He supports technical working groups and is involved with ICNZ projects including future building design with high seismic resilience and repairability.

 

Resources

A PDF handout is included in the fee and will be emailed to you along with your ticket, one week before the event. 

Held online, you will be emailed a link to join the live stream one week before. For information on what is required to participate in the live web stream, click here. PowerPoint slides will be emailed out after 3pm the day before the event.

Fee

Law Society Members benefit from up to 30% off – please login to receive member pricing

• $99 ex gst ($113.85 incl gst) – Law Society members & associate members
• $141 ex gst ($162.15 incl gst) – Non-members

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Cancellation and Refund Policy

You may cancel your registration eight working days in advance of an event, and you will receive a refund less a 25% administration fee. If you cancel less than eight working days in advance of the event, no refund is payable. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another person. If you wish to do so you must advise CLE New Zealand Law Society in writing of the change. CLE reserves the right to close registrations, and cancel or reschedule an event as necessary. Where an event is cancelled by CLE, a full refund is payable.  View full Law Society event terms