
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

Virtual
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
