Date / time
16/10/2024
1:00 pm - 2:10 pm

In-Person Lecture to be held at Lloyd’s Old Library, 1 Lime St, London, EC3M 7HA

Please ensure you bring photographic ID or Lloyd’s Pass

Booking for this event is now closed.

Professor Kenneth Abraham (University of Virginia) will analyze the ways in which insurance and insurance law act as a gatekeeper to certain activities (e.g., driving, homeowning, handling of hazardous chemicals) and how the devices insurance uses to combat moral hazard (e.g., risk-based pricing, partial insurance, coverage exclusions) do and do not function effectively.

Kenneth S. Abraham is the Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is one of the leading insurance and tort law scholars in the United States. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a life member of the American Law Institute. He was the senior adviser to the American Law Institute’s “Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance.” Abraham was the recipient of the American Bar Association’s Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award, given for “outstanding contributions to tort and insurance law,” and was the first law professor to be elected an honorary fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel. Abraham is the author of six books and more than ninety law review articles on insurance and tort law. He has been a consulting counsel and an expert witness in dozens of major insurance coverage cases. His casebook on insurance law, now in its seventh edition, has been used as the principal text in courses on insurance law in over one hundred U.S. law schools.

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