Join us in Adelaide for our 2025 Unimutual Annual Conference and learn about the importance of collaboration and leadership during challenging times, with a focus on sustainability.

Please join us for this webinar for Unimutual Members on Thursday 11 April 2024 to be presented by Shannon Mony and Robert Minc, from Meridian Lawyers.

Shannon and Robert will share insights on the critical aspects to consider when an incident occurs and the elements that need to be circumnavigated to resolve a claim to reach a favourable outcome.

Email the Member Services Team to receive the registration link.

The webinar will be recorded if you are unable to attend the session.

A Special General Meeting was held immediately following our Annual General Meeting for changes to the Unimutual Constitution.

Details of the resolutions that were presented and adopted, including the proposed new Constitution can be found on the link. You will need to login to the “Members Only” dashboard to access the information.

The 2024 Unimutual Annual Conference was held from Wednesday 13 March to Friday 15 March 2024 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart, Tasmania. This year’s theme: ‘Staying ahead of the curve together’, to prepare our Members and stakeholders for the next phase of innovation and progress in our industry.

The presentations were recorded and will be able to watch on the website shortly.

Online Unimutual Introduction Workshops where held in August. These workshops are designed to assist those that are new to Unimutual to understand the fundamentals of Unimutual, how it operates, and the services and Protections provided.

Two separate workshops were held – those who are very new to Unimutual Workshop 1 is undertaken prior to Workshop 2.

Please contact us if you are interested in attending future workshops.

The AGM Notice was emailed to your Member Nominated Representative.

2022 Renewal & Market Update presentation, where we provided further information on:

 introduction and highlights from the “1 July Market Update” – with Geoff Henderson, CEO
 current general market update with guest speaker from Guy Carpenter
 Renewal Update on each of the Protections, covering any Protection and wording changes, cost indications if available, by Tobias Pfau and Salinda Saat,
 Q&A

A recording is available for you to view on the website.

Join this discussion group with Jamie Thomson (Unimutual Claims Manager) where he will delve into specific claims and lessons learnt. Jamie will be joined by Simon Iliffe (Unimutual Risk Manager) who will be talking about root cause analysis process and application. Invitation with the meeting link will be emailed shortly, or contact us at service@unimutual.com.au to be included on the mailing list.

At this virtual meeting for members and their brokers, Terry Ibbotson (Acting CEO) and the Unimutual team provided details of current projects underway. Watch the recording here

In this webinar AXAXL and Crawford & Co will focus on their Incident Response process, the steps involved in developing your incident response plans, and how they help you respond and recover so you can keep moving forward if you suffer an incident.

An Email invitation to register has been sent, so please contact Kerry French to receive an invitation on service@unimutual.com.au

The AGM Notice was emailed to your Member Nominated Representative.

The AGM will be followed by a special resolution meeting to discuss proposed changes to the Constitution.

This year’s theme ‘Disruption – Creator of Opportunities’, is very fitting as we all overcome new challenges related to the pandemic.

Due to the current Covid-19 case numbers, and in the interests of everyone’s safety, we changed the format of this year’s Annual Conference to a virtual event.

All presentations have been recorded and will be available to watch by demand.

At this virtual meeting for members and their brokers, Terry Ibbotson (Acting CEO) and the Unimutual team provided an update of the progress of each of the Roadmap projects, with the opportunity to ask questions.

You can read our progress updates, the Q&A from the previous presentation, or watch the recording here

Commercial agreements are pivotal to the smooth operation of a business, but in engaging a commercial contract it is essential to avoid unnecessary risk and keep your organisation’s interests in play. In this webinar, we will explore navigating contracts as a non-lawyer, including the fundamentals of contract law and how you can identify problematic clauses to mitigate risk.

To present the ins and outs of contract law, we are delighted to be joined by Simone Whetton and Toby Blyth, partners at Colin Biggers & Paisley who have expertise in corporate and commercial law, and insurance and financial services law, respectively. Simone and Toby will draw upon their experience forming contracts, as well as managing fallout from contractual disputes, to give you the inside view on what you need to know when reviewing a contract.

The Online Member Forums are intended to generate healthy engagement and open discussion between Members without any external influences.

We have emailed all Member the invitation with link to join this meeting, or please email service@unimutual.com.au if not received and you wish to join.

Follow the link to review Simon Iliffe’s presentation for this discussion group along with other resources for “Protecting your research in Controlled Environments”. You will need to login to the Members Only section. Contact service@unimutual.com.au for login details.

This webinar was delivered by AXA XL, with guest presenters from S-RM and Headsure.

Security Scorecard evaluates an organisation’s cyber security using data-driven metrics and produces a report with easy-to-read ratings across a number of information security dimensions including DNS health, IP reputation, web application security, network security, leaked information, hacker chatter, endpoint security and patching cadence.
The Report also benchmarks an organisation against its peers in the same industry and provides a list of ranked actionable issues for the organisation to address if they want to improve their cyber security.
Join us for this webinar to learn more about Security Scorecard and how this software application evaluates an organisation’s IT security by accessing publicly available information and comparing findings against data-driven objective metrics.

The AGM Notice was emailed to your Member Nominated Representative.

The Online Member Forums are intended to generate healthy engagement and open discussion between Members without any external influences.

If you have not received invitations to previous Member Forums, please email service@unimutual.com.au to ensure you receive the link for the next forum.

This presentation and Q&A with Terry Ibbotson (Acting Unimutual CEO) shared our roadmap for evolving Unimutual to better meet the needs of members and to fully restore confidence in our service of the higher education and research sector.

You can watch the recording or read about our progress updates here

This webinar was delivered by AXA XL, with guest presenters from Clyde & Co.

Ransomware continues to pose a significant risk to Australian businesses, with more than two thirds of Australian companies targeted by ransomware in 2020 according to a recent survey.

2021 promises no letup, as cyber criminals continue to exploit system vulnerabilities and derive lucrative income sources from ransom payments.

As cybercriminals continue to exploit vulnerabilities and disrupt operations, there is a need to proactively manage the risk, with cyber insurance playing a key role.

Hear from leading cyber experts Max Broodryk (AXA XL), John Moran (Clyde & Co) and Richard Berkahn (Clyde & Co) as they share their insights

The Online Member Forums are intended to generate healthy engagement and open discussion between Members without any external influences.

If you have not received invitations to previous Member Forums, please email service@unimutual.com.au to ensure you receive the link for the next forum.

Instead of our annual conference in 2020, for the month of September we held a concentrated one hour session on the most crucial topics relevant to you, plus an optional half hour for further questions and discussion. IF YOU MISSED THE WEBINARS you can now watch the recordings and download the presentations here.

This webinar was delivered by Chubb Insurance Australia.

The group was run by Simon Iliffe, Unimutual Risk Manager, and discussed all things on controlled environments.
Watch this space for future discussion group meetings.

This Webinar was presented by Simon Iliffe (Unimutual Risk Manager) and Peter Watts (Unimutual Underwriting Manager).

You can watch the webinar and download the presentation here. Topics covered include:
1. Changes to cover for Research – What has changed and Why
2. From “Temperature Controlled Environment” to “Controlled Environment”
3. The five must haves for mitigation
4. Why inventories are so important
5. Valuing Controlled Environment Contents
6. Understanding where your mitigation gaps are

Invitations will be emailed shortly, or please contact us at service@unimutual.com.au

The Online Member Forums are intended to generate healthy engagement and open discussion between Members without any external influences.

Email service@unimutual.com.au for a link to join the meeting.

This Management Liability webinar was delivered by Chubb Insurance Australia Limited. Our panellist from Chubb is Darren Cook, Management Liability Product Manager.

This webinar is delivered to you by AXA XL and Clyde & Co.