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This session will provide a timely update on reinsurance cases, examining emerging themes and key decisions shaping the market.

The lecture will be delivered by Adam Strong and Rupert Warren, both highly regarded practitioners in insurance and reinsurance disputes. Adam brings extensive experience across complex insurance and reinsurance arbitrations, international arbitration, and appellate litigation, and is consistently recognised by Legal 500 for his technical ability and strategic insight. Rupert is well known for his work on high-profile insurance and reinsurance claims, including brokers’ negligence and non-disclosure, and is praised for his strong technical knowledge, judgement and market understanding.

This promises to be a valuable and practical update for anyone working in insurance, reinsurance, or related disputes.

SPEAKERS

ADAM STRONG

Adam specialises in dispute resolution in the insurance and reinsurance sector. Adam also has significant experience of commercial and investor/state international arbitration. He has acted in arbitrations under a number of the common institutional rules including ICSID, ICC, ARIAS, UNCITRAL and LCIA. Adam has higher rights of audience and his court experience includes a number of cases that have progressed to the Court of Appeal. He also has experience of asset preservation and freezing orders.

Adam’s insurance experience encompasses a number of classes of business including financial institutions, professional indemnity, product liability, warranty and indemnity, cyber, and commercial general liability. His reinsurance experience is equally extensive and, in particular, includes advising clients on disputes involving some of the more unusual hybrid reinsurance/capital markets products.

In addition to his contentious work Adam regularly advises his clients on the drafting of new product offerings, reinsurance treaty wordings and binding authority agreements. Adam’s international arbitration experience includes acting for investors in claims against sovereign states and defending sovereign states against investor claims. His commercial arbitration experience is wide ranging and has encompassed disputes in Europe, Africa, USA, Bermuda, the Middle East and SE Asia.

RUPERT WARREN

Rupert specialises in insurance, reinsurance and professional indemnity claims. He frequently acts for insurers, reinsurers, policyholders and insured professionals in claims arising from a wide range of classes of business, including professional indemnity, management liability, financial institutions property / business interruption, energy, product liability and construction. His cases often have an international element. He has been involved in some of the leading cases on, for example, brokers’ negligence and non-disclosure in reinsurance.

Rupert has spent time on secondment in the claims teams of two Lloyd’s syndicate, through which he has developed a thorough understanding of the insurance market. He is a member of the Insurance and Reinsurance Legacy Association (“IRLA”) and the British Insurance Law Association (“BILA”). He regularly presents to clients on topical market issues.

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Date 27 January 2027

Time 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

British Insurance Law Association Young Professionals (BILA YP) are excited to announce our winter quiz.
Awake your brain from its hibernation and come test your knowledge against fellow London Insurance Market peers.

When: 22 January 2026

Where: Marsh, Tower Place East, Tower Place, London EC3R 5BU

Time: Doors Open at 17:30, Quiz starts at 18:00

Quiz finish time 20:00, followed by networking until 21:00

Cost: £10 per person or £50 for a table of 6

Important notes

Please ensure you bring ID with you – driving licence, passport, Work ID with company logo and full name.

Refunds will not be issued after 5.00 pm on 19 January, however tickets are transferable providing you inform office@bila.org.uk prior to 10.00 am on 22 January 2026.

Event Sponsor:

Marsh the world’s top insurance broker and risk advisor. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow on LinkedInand X

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We look forward to welcoming everyone who has registered!

IN-PERSON EVENT – REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS NOW CLOSED

James Davey, who has just finished his successful term as BILA’s President, is well known to BILA members and audiences for his informative, thought-provoking and entertaining lectures.  He will be delivering this year’s BILA Annual Update, a study and assessment of key developments in insurance law during the past twelve months.

Speaker 

Professor James Davey, University of Bristol Law School

(President of BILA – November 2023 to November 2025)

In-person event

Date: 5 November

Time: 1:00 PM

Location: Lloyd’s Old Library

We are pleased to invite you to an in-person lecture at Lloyd’s Old Library on Wednesday, 5 November at 1:00 PM.  Jeremiah Welch and Will Bennett of Saxe Doernberger & Vita P.C. will explore the recent Archer Western v. ACE American Insurance Co. decision and its implications for LEG3 coverage interpretation under U.S. law. They will analyse how the court’s reasoning, influenced by SCB, redefines “physical damage,” clarifies ambiguity surrounding “improvement” in LEG3 provisions, and contrasts U.S. and U.K. treatment of manufacturing and contamination claims. The session will offer essential takeaways for insurers, brokers, and construction professionals engaging with cross-jurisdictional coverage disputes.

Speakers:

Jeremiah Welch

Managing Partner, SDV West Coast

Jeremiah represents many of the ENR Top 20 construction contractors, advising on and litigating insurance claims arising from heavy civil, industrial, and commercial construction projects. His work involves complex coverage issues across builder’s risk, liability, pollution, and default insurance. Jeremiah has played key roles in major construction disaster litigations, including the Florida University bridge collapse, the Louisiana Hard Rock Hotel collapse, and the San Francisco Millennium Tower case. He is also a trusted advisor to leading insurance brokerages and a frequent national speaker.

Will Bennett

Partner, SDV

Will maintains a nationwide litigation practice focusing on complex insurance recovery actions. Admitted in California, Connecticut, and New York, he frequently leads cases from initial strategy through trial and appeal. His experience spans construction catastrophe, defect, real estate, and pollution liability disputes. Will is widely recognised by national insurance brokerages for his expertise and regularly presents at industry conferences.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a highly informative and thought-provoking session.

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NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE 2025 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE

BRITISH INSURANCE LAW ASSOCIATION

To be held on : Tuesday 4th November 2025 at 1 pm

The meeting will be held on Zoom

For the business to be transacted at the meeting, please see the Agenda

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Members only may attend

NOTE: Copies of the Agenda, the 2024 AGM Minutes and the Annual Report for the year ended 28 February 2025 have been placed within the members’ area of the BILA website. Please contact the Secretariat should you require a hard copy of any of these documents – Email office@bila.org.uk.

Virtual

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Please join Stephen Midwinter KC (Brick Court Chambers), Alexander Oddy and Fiona Treanor (Partners at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP) who acted for AerCap in its recent c. USD 1 billion win against War Risk Insurers in the Russian Aircraft Lessor Policy Claims [2025] EWHC 1430 (Comm).

This talk will cover the background to this market-wide loss before explaining the key findings in Mr Justice Butcher’s judgment and its relevance to the wider insurance market.  Key topics include:

• The construction of contingent policies and war risk perils
• The test for loss in the context of deprivation of possession
• The application of the grip of the peril doctrine and how to analyse concurrent causes of loss

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In-Person Event

Location: Lloyd’s Old Library, One Lime Street, London, EC3M 7HA

Demystifying parts of the Bermuda Form Policy

We won’t be surprised if you find us boring. We will be surprised if some of you don’t. Is your boredom intended or expected?

Please join Gavin Kealey KC (Head of Chambers at 7 King’s Bench Walk) and Mina Matin (Co-Head of Insurance Disputes, US at Norton Rose Fulbright) for a discussion of the following issues:

• The genesis of the Bermuda Form Policy
• Key policy provisions including unraveling the expected / intended provision
• Choice of law Issues including the impetus to silence New York as the governing law of the policy

Location: In-person seminar at Lloyd’s Old Library, One Lime Street, London, EC3M 7HA