Webinar: The Hazards associated with Lithium Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries were first mass-produced in the early 1990s, and they are performing a key role in the move away from reliance upon fossil fuels. However, using lithium to store energy presents a new set of risks to property underwriters.

This session is designed to draw the underwriter’s and broker’s attention to these risks and why rating and wording alterations may be needed to counter this growing problem

Learning Objectives

• Understand what lithium is and why it poses such a growing risk for property underwriters
• Be aware of the uses of lithium batteries
• Know how underwriters can counter the risks presented by lithium batteries

Speaker

David Hole ACII

David is an experienced insurance professional with a career spanning over 40 years; he has enjoyed wide exposure in the London Insurance Market and elsewhere resulting from his industry-specific training activity. 

David is a part-time complaint manager for a Lloyd’s coverholder, as well as a subject matter expert for the Chartered Insurance Institute, authoring and updating modules for the CII computer-based training programme, Broker Assess. His experience includes Head of Claims at Plum Underwriting Ltd, where he was responsible for managing the relationship between insurers and claims third party administrators, handling larger claims received via technical referral processes.

David has been delivering technical insurance training for over 20 years, to a variety of different industry customers in the UK and abroad and provides examination support for clients undertaking CII studies to achieve industry recognised designations. He provides training on many general insurance classes up to at least intermediate level to include motor trade insurance, cyber, marine cargo, commercial property, business interruption, liabilities, construction, engineering, and trade credit. He also delivers more generic underwriting and claims training.