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1. Chief Executive: A O Libke, GPO Box 1705, Brisbane, Qld 4001 Australia Telephone: 61-7 3229 6663 Fax: 61-7 3221 7267
Registered Office: 2nd
Floor, 190 Edward Street, Brisbane, Qld 4000 Australia
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First History of Australasia’s Most Obscure Profession
What Killed the Tiger: The Extraordinary History of Australasian Loss Adjusters
What Killed the Tiger is a fascinating glimpse into Australasian history: the Ash Wednesday fires,
Christchurch earthquakes, Rene Rivkin’s mysterious Alpine Press fire, 2004 Indian Ocean
Tsunami, set disasters on a famous New Zealand films … Each time calamity strikes, in the
aftermath, a tiny profession slips in, before the police, fire fighters and ambulances have gone.
These specialists, from the parallel world of insurance, act in the nether land between insurer and
insured, adjudicating by a time-honoured professional code.
“if it's as good as the first few chapters you've got a winner on your hands. You've
managed to breathe new life and insight into what so often seems to the outsider
to be a club for detail freaks. Love it!” – Terry McMullan, Publisher, Insurance
NEWS
Brisbane, Australia – Author Elizabeth Marx introduces you to some of the huge personalities in
Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region who tell their stories publically for the first time
in this unvarnished history of Australasian loss adjusters on behalf of the Australasian Institute of
Chartered Loss Adjusters (AICLA).
What Killed the Tiger will be launched in Adelaide on 19th October. The book delves into the
history of Australasian loss adjusters from Colonial times through the Christchurch earthquakes,
giving a behind-the-curtain look at a media-shy profession involved in every major disaster in the
region. What did loss adjusters see after the Black Saturday fires? What conditions did loss
adjusters live in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy? How did loss adjusters explain the vast distances
of Western Australia to American insurance functionaries? How did loss adjusters cope doing their
job amongst the thousands of dead in the 2004 tsunami?
Loss adjusters appear at times of disasters and when people are at their lowest having suffered a
personal loss. They are there to fulfil the insurance promise.

2. Chief Executive: A O Libke, GPO Box 1705, Brisbane, Qld 4001 Australia Telephone: 61-7 3229 6663 Fax: 61-7 3221 7267
Registered Office: 2nd
Floor, 190 Edward Street, Brisbane, Qld 4000 Australia
Website: www.aicla.org Email: adminoffice@aicla.org
All loss adjusters have a yarn or two: the fraud they uncovered, the gun that was held on them,
time spent outback watching homesteads burn down. These recollections, taken together,
illustrate what makes an Australasian loss adjuster unique in the world.
How did Australian loss adjusters break with British tradition, flourish in remote and difficult terrain
and develop the world’s first accredited education program? Thanks to a handful of early industry
pioneers, who tell their story here, AICLA blossomed from a tiny professional group to an
international force with members in 22 countries.
“We commissioned the book to capture the history of a generation that accomplished so much but
will soon fade away,” says Tony Libke, Chief Executive of AICLA in Brisbane.
What Killed the Tiger will officially launch in Adelaide on 19th
October this year to coincide with
the 20th
anniversary of the establishment of the Australasian Institute of Chartered Loss Adjusters.
Elizabeth Marx was born in Chicago, raised in Texas, and immigrated to Brisbane in 1996. She is
a graduate of the University of Queensland with degrees in Politics and Media Studies. She is a
second-generation journalist from a family of writers and has free-lanced extensively for print
media both in the USA and Queensland. She lives in Brisbane with her two sons.
Review copies or excerpts are available by contacting AICLA.
For more information please contact:
Tony Libke
Chief Executive
Australasian Institute of Chartered Loss Adjusters
T 61+7+3229-6663
E adminoffice@aicla.org