Date / time
27/01/2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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 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.
Date 27 January 2027
Time 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm