BILA YP is delighted to host a mock arbitration with members of Essex Court Chambers concerning whether excess of loss insurance which covers “any one catastrophe” would apply to claims resulting from a global pandemic. Please do join us to see how this internationally ‘hot’ topic would be debated in an arbitral setting.
Tickets are £10.00 per person (invoices will be sent out upon receipt of your booking) and will only be refundable if notification is received in writing one week prior to the event.
Booking for the event is now closed, if you require assistance, please email office@bila.org.uk
5:30pm – 6:30pm on Wednesday, 7 August 2024 (arrive at 5pm)
S-RM Offices at 15 St Botolph Street, London EC3A 7DT
Virtual Lecture
Please join BILA YP and Young AIDA France for a virtual discussion on ESG regulatory outlook for general insurers: an overview of the position in the UK and France, with a focus on climate & sustainability and diversity, equity & inclusion as areas of significant regulatory attention.
Following this lecture, there will be time for you to ask your own questions in a Q&A session:
Virtual Lecture
Steven McEwan is a Senior Counsel and Jonathan Russell and Edward Steward are each partners in the Corporate Insurance team at Hogan Lovells. They each have broad experience advising clients across the insurance sector, both life and non-life, in a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters, including M&A, Part VIIs, (re)insurance arrangements and the application of Solvency II.
Virtual Seminar
BILA YOUNG PROFESSIONALS
Zoe Burge acted for AXIS in its defence of Discovery Land’s claim against it brought pursuant to the Third Party Rights Against Insurers Act 2010. Somewhat unhappily for insurers, it is now the leading case on the interpretation of the dishonesty exclusion and aggregation wording in a solicitors PII policy.
Virtual Lecture
Glenn Newberry is a partner in Eversheds Sutherland and head of the firm’s Litigation Funding and Costs teams. He has extensive experience of advising claimants and defendants on the options available, many of which are jurisdiction-specific, to fund, de-risk, and off-book litigation risk and
Please note this is an in-person event.
Gideon Shirazi is a barrister and arbitrator at 4 Pump Court specialising in all aspects of commercial law including
insurance/reinsurance disputes. Gideon has acted in a large number of arbitrations seated across the world and applications and challenges under
Virtual Lecture
This talk is about the English court’s jurisdiction with regard to claims against insurers where there is an international element either because one or both of the parties is outside the jurisdiction, or the event giving rise to the claim occurred outside the jurisdiction or a combination of all one or more of those factors.
In person event – cost £15.00 per person
We are delighted to invite you to BILA Young Professionals wine tasting and networking event. This is a ticketed event with limited spaces, so ensure you book your place(s) now if this is something that interests you.
Kindly hosted and sponsored by Fenchurch Law.
Virtual Webinar
The London subscription insurance market is characterised by the participation of a number of separate underwriters in a single risk. Those underwriters either take a greater or lesser role in the placing of the risk, the investigation of losses and the management of claims. There are Leading Underwriters and Following Underwriters.