It’s with a really heavy coronary heart that I write to advise that my colleague and nice pal Murray Rowley misplaced his battle with most cancers yesterday at circa 10:30am on Monday.
Murray is survived by his spouse Pam, his devoted sister Lyndal and 4 youngsters together with loss adjuster Mark Rowley who a lot of you’ll know.
Murray was 86 years previous and was the senior companion in MBS Pumfreys Loss Adjusters which I joined as a younger man in January 1982.
I actually met Murray for the primary time again in 1974 once I was a claims officer and had a report of his in respect of a serious loss arising from the Australia Day 1974 Brisbane Floods. Regardless of being tremendous busy, he invited me over to his workplace and went via the reserve step-by-step with me in order that I totally understood the assorted features of the declare.
Inside a 12 months of becoming a member of MBS Pumfreys Murray invited me to hitch in him regulate a declare following a serious hearth on the division retailer Walton’s Mackay retailer in 1983. It was the primary of many claims we labored on along with him entrusting me extra, underneath his supervision, on every declare. It was an important studying expertise for me which continued ever since.
I nonetheless have the stories on that fireplace in my archive, and I learn the primary report once more this morning.
Murray inspired me and totally supported my transfer to PNG for the corporate and was a mentor particularly on the huge Bougainville Copper Declare in 1998.
Murray was the youngest ever Chartered Accountant to qualify in Australia on the age of 19. He put lots into his occupation together with taking up the function as Australian Division President of the UK primarily based Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters.
His specialty was enterprise interruption and dealt with most of the world’s main mining losses for corporations comparable to BHP and Anglo Amercian, Rio Tinto and others.
His two passions have been flying and at one stage he owned two plane, and he piloted me on many events out to homestead, industrial or mining losses in Queensland. I at all times felt tremendous secure with him flying as he was a stickler for danger administration.
He gained two main flying races. One in his class from London to Brisbane to honour the feat of aviation pioneer Sir Charles Kingford Smith and one round Queensland. From reminiscence these have been each within the 1980’s
Whether or not as a loss adjuster or claims preparer he at all times acted pretty following the precept of appearing with utmost good religion which was within the code for the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters.
Once I was considering beginning LMI he was very supportive of the transfer and it was he who got here up with the title, Loss Administration Worldwide. I used to be delighted when he agreed to hitch LMI Group over 15 years in the past the place he has been an important asset to the group and me personally.
He will likely be sadly missed by so many individuals, me, very a lot included.
I’m so happy I obtained to go and say goodbye to him just a few quick weeks in the past and he rang me final Friday to as soon as once more say goodbye. To the very finish he was brave and in optimistic spirits.
Together with his passing and that of his long-standing companion at MBS, Paul O’Sullivan two months in the past, it does really feel like the tip of an period.
Murray’s funeral will likely be held on the Southport Uniting Church, Nook of Quick and Scarborough Streets, Southport at 11.00am Tuesday Could 6, 2025.
Relaxation in Peace my pal.
