Nic is one of the most  significant personalities and a cornerstone of the Nordic market having been  part of the team that elevated the market from a highly fractured group of  small local insurers to the market’s present position as the marine world’s  leader.

The Nordic Plan and  the Four Pillars that underpins what Nic refers to as the “coopetition”  between the Nordic marine market players were central to this success.

Nic was a member of  the Nordic Plan drafting committee (shipowners and classification  complemented insurers participants) and had the lead on Chapter 16 the loss  of hire section. He refers to the Plan as the Holy Book of Norway or the  Nordic Koran or sometimes simply The Royal Nordic Plan.

Raised in Zimbabwe, he  left the beauty of Southern Africa in 1960 at the age of 18, to study law in  London. Ten years later with a Master of Maritime Law degree under his belt  and experience as a deck hand on a Norwegian vessel sailing to West Africa,  he took up a teaching position at the Norwegian Business College in Bergen.  Two years later, he became assistant professor of law at the University of  Bergen, a position he held for 13 years.  During his time at the  university, he wrote a comparison of English and Norwegian marine insurance  law and worked as an advisor to UNCTAD on marine insurance.

During the 1980 and  90’ies he was Head of Legal and Claims for Vesta (now the H&M Division of  Gard) working with Tom Midttun, from 1998 we worked in a similar capacity for  AON’s Marine Practise Group, and rejoined Gard in 2002.

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