Strategic Alliances

Through its relationships with internationally recognised organisations including VRS Adjusters, Charles Taylor, CESAM, and AIMU, ULA connects clients in Lebanon and the Middle East with some of the most respected names in the global insurance and maritime sectors.

These affiliations strengthen ULA's ability to deliver internationally recognised standards of surveying, loss adjusting, average adjustment, claims management, recoveries, and technical consultancy services, while ensuring access to expertise across all major marine insurance markets, including London, Continental Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. They reflect ULA's commitment to combining local knowledge with global capabilities in support of insurers, reinsurers, brokers, shipowners, traders, and cargo interests worldwide.

Global Reach Through Strategic Alliances

International Networks & Professional Associations

VRS Adjusters is a leading international loss adjusting and claims management network, bringing together independent adjusting firms and specialists across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Through its global presence and local expertise, VRS provides seamless cross-border claims handling and technical support for property, marine, engineering, energy, liability, and other specialty risks.

Within the international claims market, VRS is recognised for its extensive network reach and ability to deliver consistent standards of service across multiple jurisdictions. Its worldwide footprint enables insurers, brokers, and reinsurers to access local expertise while maintaining coordinated oversight of complex international losses.

Founded in 1884, Charles Taylor is one of the most established and respected service providers in the global insurance market. With offices and operations spanning major insurance hubs worldwide, the company delivers loss adjusting, claims management, insurance management, technical consulting, and risk solutions to insurers, brokers, reinsurers, and policyholders.

Charles Taylor occupies a prominent position within both the London insurance market and the international marine and non-marine sectors, combining more than a century of experience with a truly global operational capability. Its reputation for technical excellence and industry leadership has made it one of the most recognised names in insurance services worldwide.

ULA collaborates with Charles Taylor throughout the Middle East, extending its claims handling, adjusting, and technical service capabilities while providing clients with direct access to world-class international expertise.

CESAM (Centre d'Études Supérieures d'Assurances Maritimes) is one of the most respected professional networks of marine surveyors, average adjusters, and maritime experts worldwide. The organisation maintains a network of specialists across key maritime and trading centres, providing surveys, technical assessments, loss evaluations, and support for marine and cargo claims.

CESAM is widely regarded as a reference institution within the French marine insurance market and enjoys strong recognition throughout Europe and the wider international maritime community. Its network is frequently relied upon by insurers, shipowners, carriers, P&I interests, and cargo stakeholders for independent technical expertise and professional marine insurance services.

ULA is the recommended CESAM Average Agent for Lebanon, providing surveys, average adjustments, recoveries, and a comprehensive range of marine insurance-related services on behalf of CESAM and its international network.

Established in 1898, the American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU) is the leading trade association representing the United States ocean marine insurance sector and has been a central pillar of the American marine insurance market for more than a century. AIMU is recognised as the primary industry body for education, advocacy, technical guidance, and professional development within the U.S. marine insurance community.

AIMU occupies a position in the United States comparable to that of IUMI on the international stage, bringing together many of the country's leading marine insurers and reinsurers while fostering technical excellence across cargo, hull, liability, logistics, and offshore sectors. Its educational programmes, technical committees, publications, and industry initiatives are widely regarded as benchmark resources for marine insurance professionals.

ULA is the recommended AIMU Average Agent for Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, facilitating the exchange of technical expertise, market intelligence, and industry best practices to support clients throughout Lebanon and the wider region.

Legal, Recovery & Maritime Claims Support

ULA maintains strategic relationships with leading international maritime and insurance law practices across the world's principal shipping and insurance center, including London, Continental Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America.
Through these professional alliances, ULA is able to coordinate legal support, subrogation and recovery actions, policy coverage matters, cargo liability claims, contractual disputes, marine casualties, salvage matters, and complex cross-border insurance recoveries. This network provides clients with access to highly specialised maritime legal expertise while ensuring that technical investigations, loss adjustment, survey work, evidence gathering, and recovery efforts are managed efficiently and consistently across multiple jurisdictions.
By combining its local presence and technical expertise with a global network of legal professionals, ULA offers a seamless approach to claims handling and recovery management, supporting insurers, reinsurers, brokers, shipowners, carriers, traders, and cargo interests throughout every stage of the claims process.
This international capability further strengthens ULA's position as a trusted partner for marine, transport, property, engineering, and liability claims, enabling clients to benefit from coordinated technical, legal, and recovery solutions anywhere in the world.