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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, originally known as Lowther Oswald, traded for many years as Lowthers, after the abrupt departure of Oswald. The company continued trading successfully for several years, but Ian has had no involvement with it since 1985.   The company, originally incorporated on 17th December 1981, was eventually dissolved via voluntary strike-off on 11th May 2010. 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 left Lowther Oswald, as it was then known, and 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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