Benefits of BCAMI membership

• networking
• meeting industry leaders
• opportunity to serve on committees and the BCAMI Board
• engagements with the Speaker's Bureau
• advance announcement of course calendars
• TOPICS (see communications)
• the ADR News (ADR Institute of Canada Inc.)
• business opportunities, provincially and nationally through ADRIC.
• obtaining competitively priced insurance for arbitrators and mediators (a prerequisite for the Court Mediation Practicum). The Court Mediation Practicum Program is an excellent way to get hands-on mediation experience, call 604-684-1300. The Insurance application can be forwarded directly to Ontario with the appropriate fee. Insurance will not be issued until the member is confirmed to be in good standing; this also applies to renewals.

Keep informed! Meeting, seminar, and course dates change; members are regularly informed and the website is updated.

Referrals

When the Institute is asked to recommend and appoint a mediator or an arbitrator the Institute will, on a rotation basis, select from the BCAMI arbitrator or mediator Referral list, based on experience, expertise and nature of the dispute, a C.Arb or a C.Med., persons granted Member status, or members known to be experienced arbitrators or mediators.

After Training, Then What?

In addition to Referrals, the Institute appoints the arbitrator in ICBC cases where valuators have failed to reach agreement relating to the value of vehicles written off and for other types of ICBC disputes. Members also gain experience arbitrating or mediating for the Better Business Bureau.