Throwback Thursday: Cila conference cancelled; OJ denied

21 March 1996: Adjuster’s conference nosedives

The plug was pulled on the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters conference due to a lack of interest.

Cila arranged a two-day event on how insurers should “react to a major disaster impacting London” and sent out 3000 letters encouraging insurers, brokers and underwriters to come along but failed to attract enough delegates.

Tony Clack, then Cila’s director told Post: “A lot of people said it was a conference that was the right theme but perhaps the timing was wrong. I think people just had other commitments.”

Insurer denies OJ Simpson claim

CNA denied a claim by OJ Simpson for defence costs in several wrongful-death civil lawsuits.

The former American football star was acquitted at trial in 1995 of the killing of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, but the families of the victims filed civil lawsuits alleging wrongful death.

Simpson died on 10 April 2024, aged 76, from prostate cancer.