Emily Hart from Crawford and Company in Adelaide has won the latest annual Syd McDonald Young Adjuster Award and the Charles Buchanan Prize for loss adjusters.

Ms Hart's awards for 2008 were announced at the CC09 Claims Convention in Sydney last week.

The Syd McDonald award is for the Australasian Institute of Chartered Loss Adjusters (AICLA) member aged 35 or under who achieves the highest mark in a subject in the AICLA's Diploma of Financial Services (Loss Adjusting) course.

The Buchanan Prize is awarded to a student who submits an exam paper and an assignment or assignments of outstanding quality in one module from the same diploma course.

The course is delivered by the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance.