The insurance provided by the Earthquake Commission (EQC) to homeowners is a crucial factor in the Canterbury recovery process. The existence of EQC has meant nearly all homes were insured and the financial benefit to which owners of damaged homes are entitled under the Earthquake Commission Act...
The exponential rise of companies using the ‘cloud’ to facilitate their IT capability and data availability raises questions around how much due diligence has been carried out before trusting data to the myriad of third parties offering the service. The Megaupload situation where individuals and...
Cybercrime is fourth on the list of risks contained in the Global Risks Report 2011 and can no longer be ignored. Karen Stephens, Director of Kestrel Group, says smart cyber criminals are always one step ahead of monitoring and anti-virus software companies in their endeavours to breach cyber...
There’s lots happening at Kestrel Group not least of all the introduction of some new training and assessment services for our clients as well as the development of a crisis management ‘app’ for mobile devices. Training We regularly get asked by our clients where they can go to access training for...
One of the many new insights provided by the Canterbury earthquakes has been into the workings of the insurance industry. Natural disasters cause claims to cluster, as opposed to each claim being an independent random event, so insurance companies have to have special arrangements in place to deal...
Dave Brunsdon, of Kestrel Group, has been awarded Life Membership of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering for his “energetic, strong and inspirational leadership” in the earthquake engineering field. The award, conferred on Dave at the Society’s annual conference in Christchurch in...