Claims Club member: Neil Curling

Neil Curling began his career in the world of civil engineering after reading Quantity Surveying for his degree at Reading University. He provided surveying and financial claims services on constructions such as nuclear reactor foundations and core construction, and associated railway construction.

Moving away from the civils world Curling,began providing surveying services to commercial and domestic property development before spending time in a professional office to achieve qualification as a chartered surveyor.

Once qualified Curling moved into insurance claims investigation and resolution, learning from the basics of domestic claims, becoming qualified as a chartered loss adjuster handling domestic and commercial construction with a keen interest and aptitude for business interruption claims.

However, Curling found that his true enthusiasm and speciality was in subsidence where he achieved national responsibility within McLarens and later within Halifax/Lloyds.

Curing co-authored the RICS guide to subsidence and insurance, and has been chairman of the Subsidence Forum. He is currently chairman of the Subsidence Special Interest Group within the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters.

Neil has represented the insurance industry at meetings with DEFRA and the FOS.

Following a recent business change to outsourcing subsidence claims Curling has now returned to his broader interests in general claims investigation and handling, with particular interest in those challenging situations of floods, escapes of water and mysterious damp patches, asbestos, party wall concerns, septic tanks etc.