“I never heard of the profession while at university,” said Robinson. “I found it by accident on the Internet. What they were looking for seemed to match a lot of the skills I had been developing. I had studied law at university but realised I was not really interested so much in a career purely in that direction.”
Even within insurance, average adjusting — resolving claims for property damage to ships and cargo, claims for loss of earnings and general average, where the costs arising from a casualty are apportioned between shipowners, cargo and other interests involved in a common maritime adventure — had, for many years, to struggle to achieve the full recognition of value that was its due....
