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Friday 16th October 2015

The Old Library, Lloyd's, 1 Lime Street, London EC3M 7HA at 14:00

Insurable interest is the most recent topic of attention of the Law Commission team responsible for the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 and the Insurance Act 2015. This "double-header" lecture will consider the case for and against abolition of the doctrine of insurable interest, with a particular focus on interests in life assurance. As a topic, insurable interest continues to be discussed and (occasionally) litigated as new forms of insurance product (and new examples of the perverse incentives insurance can create) arise. Comparable jurisdictions (e.g. Australia) have largely abolished the requirement of an insurable interest without alarm. Insurable interest may have a significant role to play in establishing the boundary between insurance and other risk-related contracts such as gambling and credit default swaps.

On Friday 17th July 2015 BILA is pleased to welcome insurance antitrust specialist Bill Batchelor, Baker & McKenzie, Brussels, who will bring us up to date on current issues in competition law and the insurance industry.

On 20th July 2015 in the presentation rooms on the 11th floor of the Lloyd's building, BILA will host an evening presentation on the important topic of insurance subrogation.

Appointment of Professor Robert Merkin as Queen's Council Honoris Causa

The Great Hall & Bench Rooms, Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3TL - Wednesday 20^th May 2015 – 5:30pm

On the 20th May 2015 at Lincoln’s Inn BILA is holding one of its extremely popular mock trials. This year we will explore the legal and practical issues that could arise out of the new regime being brought in by the Insurance Act 2015.

Tabitta van Nouhuys and Natalie Vloemans will deliver a lecture on Dutch Insurance Law & Practice on Friday 8th May 2015

Michael Kingston, Partner, Marine Trade & Energy Group, DWF will deliver a lecture concerning the Polar Code on Friday 10th April 2015:

Neil Moody QC of 2 Temple Gardens, will deliver a lecture on Friday 13th March 2015 concerning Contractors' All Risk Insurance: Everything You Need To Know But Were Afraid To Ask:

Torben Bondrop of Plesner, Copenhagen, will deliver a lecture concerning the Danish tobacco litigation on 20 February 2014:

• Product liability for smoking-related damage outside the EU directive
• Public knowledge of health risks associated with smoking
• The concept of dependence, addiction or habituation
• The question of causality
• The state of the art defence (“system damage" in Scandinavia) within product liability
• Declarations of tar and nicotine - are they misleading?
• The EU Directive on product liability and claims for damages caused by cigarette smoking
• Is there room for a next case in Scandinavia on alcohol-related health damage?

The 12 December will be "Insurance Cover for Liability for Abuse2 presented by Colin Edelman QC of Devereux Chambers.

•  Scope of “abuse”

• Categories of insured exposed to liability
• Types of responsive policy
• Ambit of “insured”

Professor Rob Merkin, University Of Exeter; Special Counsel, DLA Phillips Fox will present BILA's Annual Update on Insurance Law

Over 100 law students attended BILA’s Future Insurance Professional Group annual networking event which took place on Thursday 6th November 2014.

Chris Parry (Aon Benfield), Luca Albertini (Leadenhall Capital), Charlotte Acton (RMS), and Marco Silva (SCOR) will present “Insurance Linked Securities” on 17 October at The Old Library, Lloyd's

Christian Felderer (SCOR, Zurich) and Lars Gerspacher (gbf attorneys-at-law, Zurich), Chairman and committee member, AIDA Swiss Chapter present “Key Differences between Swiss and English Insurance Law” on 19th September at Lloyd's

On 18th July 2014 "Insurance aggregation issues" will be presented by Dave Newmann and Stuart Hill of Hogan Lovells International LLP.  The Lunchtime Lecture will be held at 1pm in The Old Library, Lloyd's, Lime Street, London, EC3M 7DQ, courtecy of Lloyd's of London.