Insurance Terminology Teasers

Overview:

This interactive seminar focuses on archaic terminology frequently used in the insurance industry and offers credible plain English alternatives that participants will discover through some fun word games and quizzes. The end result will be the start of a glossary of plain language vocabulary that insurance professionals can use to make their writing clearer and more transparent.

Learning objectives:

At the end of this event, the delegate will be able to identify:

• frequently used archaic terminology
• credible plain language alternatives to archaic terminology
• how to develop a glossary of plain language vocabulary.

About the Speaker:

Jeff Heasman is educated to masters level in international maritime law (including insurance law) and spent many years working as a litigation executive dealing with cases up to the Court of Appeal and he also worked with Crawford and Company as a senior liability adjuster.

Since that time, Jeff has been a lecturer in the law of torts, was Dean of the Faculty of Law at Cavendish University in Zambia and has been a tutor at Swansea University, preparing international students for the study of law in the UK at bachelors and masters level.

Jeff provides training in insurance law and practice to some of the world's most prestigious organisations in various locations across the globe. He also remains close to the international legal profession, acting as a consultant in insurance law to a niche law firm based in Istanbul.

Slides from this event can be downloaded below.