More about Lowther
Having been head-hunted
for the task, in 1981 Ian Lowther, in
partnership with others, founded Lowthers of Ipswich, a Loss Adjusting firm.
That enterprise continues to this day but Ian has had no involvement with it
since 1985. At the height of Ian's time with Lowthers there were five
offices--in the City of London, Chelmsford, Southend, Ipswich and Norwich.
But Ian was restless with the constraints of
the corporate managerial team and yearned for the life of an independent
professional expert and sole proprietor. In 1985 he founded Lowther Associates
of Norwich, specialising in construction and insurance claim investigations.
Brocklehursts purchased this company in 1987
and after a five-year period trading as Brocklehurst Lowther, with Ian as
consultant practitioner, Ian's contract as a consultant came to an end. The
organisation then became subsumed in Crawfords--a worldwide company of insurance
claim investigators.
Then from 1992 Ian practised as an Insurance
and Construction arbitrator, gaining a particular interest in travel disputes.
Ian Lowther has served in several professional
and private voluntary posts. He has been a vice-president of the Insurance
Institute of Norwich; Treasurer and is a Past Chairman of the East Anglia Branch of the
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Ian was a Member of Council and various Council
Committees of that Institute. For some years Ian was Convenor of the Personal
Insurance Arbitration Service of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In
late 1999 Ian decided to retire from all arbitral work, having adjudicated 473
arbitrations and countless mediations in his professional career.
Quasi-professionally Ian Lowther is a Citizen and Arbitrator of London. He is also a Liveryman and was a Member of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators for eight years. While in that post Ian served on the Finance and Charities Committees.
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