Bianca Parussolo has garnered an impressive number of accolades since she joined the insurance industry five years ago. Last month, she won Young Insurance Professional of the Year at ANZIIF’s Australian Insurance Industry Awards in Sydney. In 2021, Parussolo was a finalist in the same category and her team won the inaugural ANZIIF Making a Difference Award for Most Valuable Team. The year before that, she won Victorian Regional Student of the Year and ANZIIF Student of the Year, in both the Diploma of General Insurance and Certificate IV in General Insurance. 

Parussolo’s passion and commitment to the industry underpins her success in a complex and often emotive area of insurance. As claims team leader at Professional Risk Underwriting (ProRisk), she manages a portfolio of professional indemnity, medical malpractice and general liability claims. She also oversees claims for ProRisk’s other product lines through mentoring and supervising the organisation’s claims examiners.

Leaving law for insurance

Parussolo left a promising career as a solicitor to join ProRisk as a senior claims examiner in 2017. She did so because she felt she could make a greater impact. 

‘I loved the law and I worked very hard to get my degree and get a place at a law firm. It was a big decision for me to change industries,’ she says. 

During the four years she worked in private practice at DLA Piper, she provided advice to insurance companies, but the final decision on strategy lay with her clients. 

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