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MICHEL THOMAS

Chief Operations Officer

Born in 1959, he holds a Master of Laws (UK) and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (FCII), (UK) as well as an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a Chartered Insurer (UK) and a member of the British Insurance Law Association (BILA).

He joined the Company in 1980 and worked as underwriter in various technical departments until 1988. He headed the Claims department before he was promoted as Senior Manager of the Group Research and Development department in 2001.

He is currently the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of SWAN General Ltd responsible for the Short-Term Operations of the Company.

His principal areas of specialisation are insurance and reinsurance contract law including policy drafting. He has extensive experience and skill in the handling of complex claims including liability, specialty and medical negligence/malpractice claims. He has worked with international law firms and barristers on a variety of high value casualty and engineering claims as well as on reinsurance conflict of laws and coverage issues. He has also been specialising in arbitration law and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures.

As regards the modernisation of our insurance legislation, he has played an important role in the recognition of claims made clauses under Mauritian law and has collaborated closely with the State Law Office and the Regulator in bringing crucial amendments to the Road Traffic Act and other subsidiary legislation. He has also collaborated with the Law Reform Committee (LRC) regarding the review of our insurance contract law provisions in the Civil Code.

He is a board member of Swan General Ltd since January 2008 and also of C-Care (Mauritius) Limited (formally known as Medical and Surgical Centre Limited) since 2009.

Directorship in Other Companies:
  • Company Position
  • C-Care (Mauritius) Limited

    Director

  • Swan Reinsurance PCC

    Director

  • Swan Special Risks Company Limited

    Director