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10 Sep 2016
Speaker: Ar. Ezumi Harzani Ismail
Venue: PAM SARAWAK CHAPTER Lot 7915 Queen’s Court2nd Floor, Jalan Wan Alwi 93350 Kuching Sarawak
Time: 8:30am – 12:30pm

Synopsis

PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY – Crisis of Liability

Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) is now becoming more popular among the practitioners and their clients. An increasing number of developers make it a condition for Architects to take up PII before being engaged for their projects. In our local context, PII is very green and has not gone through the real test. Many are excited to have it, while the rest are still in dilemma, and insurers are happily going on with their business. Some professional bodies require their members to have PII before registering and allowing them to practice. Architects have yet to follow but there are parties who are pressing for PII to be a must. Should we make PII compulsory for Architects?

There are perceptions that PII will expose the professional to litigation. Furthermore, the present laws that placed ‘unlimited liability’ on the professionals worsen the situation. The real test has yet to come. The crisis is about to begin.


Speaker

Ar. Ezumi Harzani Ismail

Ezumi Harzani is the Director of Arkitek MAA Sdn Bhd, board member of Board of Architects Malaysia (LAM) and Deputy President of Malaysian Institute of Architect (PAM). At Arkitek MAA, he involved in various scales of projects with different methods of procurement and varying degrees of liability such as conventional arrangement, direct appointment selection system, open tender design and build, and direct negotiation for public-private partnership under turnkey developers. Good management practice has always been his key principle in ensuring the best services are delivered to the clients and in managing the risk to prevent unnecessary liabilities.

To register, please contact PAM SARAWAK CHAPTER Secretariat at 082-457 182

 

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