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Peter MacDonald Eggers KC stepped down as BILA Chair near the end of last year after a two-year term.  We thank Peter for his deep commitment to the Association and…

Click here for the BILA journal Special Issue “Dissent in Insurance Law”.  Women scholars voice dissent on discrimination in insurance, cyber, causation, proportionality under Solvency II, artificial intelligence, EU compulsory…

We are delighted with our conference “US coverage disputes: what the London market needs to know” held in the Lloyd’s Old Library on 3rd November.  Many thanks for a very…

The BILA book prize was announced ahead of BILA’s Annual Insurance Law Update and AGM held on 20 October 2022. The prize-winning book is “Space Insurance and the Law” by…

BILA’s AIDA Representative, Tim Hardy (R), attended the 9th AIDA Europe conference (“Getting Fit for an Unsettled Future”) in Zurich from 5th to 7th October along with fellow BILA committee…

Dr Miriam Goldby, BILA’s Honorary Journal Editor was pleased to award the winner of the 2021 BILA Journal Article Prize at this year’s  BILA virtual event on 13 October 2021…

WEBINAR - UofG Law BILA DISSENT IN INSURANCE LAW 6TH JULY 2021, 9.30 - 16.20 BST This is a joint event hosted by the University of Glasgow With a keynote…

BILA is delighted to congratulate BILA President, Sir Julian Flaux upon his appointment on 3 February 2021 as the Chancellor of the High Court. The Chancellor of the High Court…

Following the British Insurance Law Association’s AGM held virtually on 22 October 2020, Alison Green, Chair of the BILA Charitable Trust, announced the award of the 2020 BILA Book Prize…

Tom has experience of acting in matters involving material non-disclosure, inducement, incorporation of terms, waiver and notification under the terms of a professional indemnity policy. He acts for both Claimants…

The talk will introduce the new insurance provisions of the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 and discuss areas of uncertainty. It will then look briefly beyond the Act to consider other areas that need reform.

The presentation will consider the major issues which have arisen under the 1930 Act and still arise under the 2010 Act, in light of recent decisions, including Cultural Foundation v Beazley (2018).

In this lecture, Alison Padfield QC will explain and discuss non-party costs orders against insurers.

War Risks Cover – The Drugs Don’t Work

Tuesday 24th July 2018 - 13:00 - 14:00

In this BILA lecture, Philppa Hopkins QC and David Walsh of Essex Court Chambers will examine the recent Supreme Court decision in Navigators Insurance Company Limited & ors v Atlasnavios – Navegação LDA (The “B Atlantic”) [2018] UKSC 26

Philippa Hopkins QC and David Walsh of Essex Court Chambers will examine the recent Supreme Court decision in Navigators Insurance Company Limited & ors v Atlasnavios – Navegação LDA (The “B Atlantic”) [2018] UKSC 26, in which the Court held that war risks underwriters were not liable for the total loss of the “B Atlantic”, which had been confiscated by the Venezuelan authorities after cocaine was found attached to her hull. They will consider the Supreme Court’s treatment of the malicious act peril and the infringement of customs regulations exclusion, and they will reflect on the implications of the case for the market.

2nd July 2018

“Too Big to Fail?”

The collapse of the construction and outsourcing giant Carillion hit the headlines earlier this year. This, coupled with other regular news stories of data breaches and misuse of personal information on a seemingly industrial scale, raise the spectre of systemic issues that have the potential severely to disrupt commercial life. In an era of ever greater inter-connectivity, can financial institutions, companies or infrastructure ever be “Too Big to Fail”? And when things do go wrong, what is the role of insurance?

Join BILA on 2 July for a discussion of the insurance, legal and regulatory issues involved when the “Too Big to Fail”, do fail. 

Direct Rights of Action/Anti-Suit Injunctions

Friday 15th June 2018, 13:00 - 14:00

In this BILA lecture, David Lewis QC and Oliver Caplin will discuss the direct rights of action/anti-suit injunctions

David and Oliver will explore legal issues surrounding third party claims advanced against insurers under direct action statutes, covering both English and European jurisprudence. Amongst other things, they will draw on their experiences of acting for the direct action statute claimant in the Court of Appeal in The Yusuf Cepnioglu [2016] 3 All ER 697, addressing the consequences of that decision for insurers and direct action claimants seeking or resisting anti-suit injunctive relief, and the impact that case has had, and might have had for this area of law had it been heard (as it almost was late last year) by the Supreme Court.