AIDA - Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances

The IV AIDA Europe Conference was held in London on 13/14 September 2012 at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel. Working Party meetings took place on Thursday,13 September and the full plenary conference on Friday14 September.

Attached is a copy of the delegate pack which contains the programme and most of the papers presented. Those powerpoints/papers not included in the delegate pack are attached below:

Daniel Beard QC

Professor Paolo Montalenti

With regard to presentations at the working party meetings, these will be added to the particular working party section of the website by mid-October.

Sponsorship for the AIDA Europe London Conference was provided by:

http://www.thefederation.org/

http://www.scor.com/

http://www.art.allianz.com/

http://www.edwardswildman.com/

http://www.prager-dreifuss.com/en/home/

http://www.ebullo.com.ar/

http://www.plesner.com/

http://www.gbf-legal.ch/

http://www.heuking.de/

http://www.levitansharon.co.il/

http://www.nortonrose.com/

http://www.bnpparibascardif.com/

Charitable Trust

http://www.bila.org.uk/

http://www.cms-cmck.com/

http://www.rokas.com/

http://www.freshfields.com/

http://www.incelaw.com/

http://www.swissre.com/

http://www.dlapiper.com/

http://www.nctm.it/

The AIDA Europe Academic/Students Sub-Committee invited participation at the AIDA Europe Conference in London.

Following assessment, the following papers were presented:

Marine: AIDA Europe Student Prize Winner Susie Marsden, Swansea University, Wales - "Putting a Premium on Reform: The Impact of the Rotterdam Rules on Shippers and Insurers of Cargo" - sponsored by University Hamburg University of Insurance.

Reinsurance: AIDA Europe Student Prize Winner Ralph Fearnhead, Addleshaw Goddard LLP, London - "Follow the Fortunes Clauses in Reinsurance Law - Practical Problems in Ensuring their Effectiveness" - sponsored by BNP Paribas Cardif .

State Supervision: AIDA Europe Student Prize Winner Angelo Borselli, Università Bocconi, Milan "Keeping watch on giants: the supervision of insurance groups and of insurance undertakings within financial conglomerates in European law" - sponsored by the British Insurance Law Association Charitable Trust

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AIDA Europe Conference - Amsterdam, 26/27 May 2011

The III AIDA Europe Conference was held in Amsterdam on 26/27 May 2011 at the NH Barbizon Palace Hotel. Working Party meetings took place on the Thursday, 26 May and the full plenary conference on Friday 27 May. There were 236 delegates.

Attached is a copy of the delegate pack which contains the programme and papers presented. With regard to presentations at the working party meetings, these can be found under the particular working party section of the website.

The AIDA Europe Academic/Students Sub-Committee invited participation at the AIDA Europe Conference in Amsterdam.

Following the assessment of the submitted abstracts, the following papers were presented:

a) "Establishment of EIOPA - Risks and challenges for state insurance supervision in the EU" (presented by Ms Bozena Hagen at the session of the WP State Supervision), and

b) "Pre-contractual information duties in insurance contract law - European
Regulation, Comparison of Laws and Challenges for Croatia" (presented by Ms Ana Keglevic at the session of the WP Consumer Protection)

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The AIDA World Congress took place in Paris 17 - 20 May 2010. The AIDA Europe Session was on Thursday 20 May 14.30h - 17.00h

Programme:

Insurable Interest: Gambling?

Chairman: Jerome Kullmann - Vice-Chairman, AIDA Europe

Panel

Herman Cousy - Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium

Robert Merkin - Professor, University of Southampton, UK

Ioannis Rokas - Professor, University of Athens, Greece

Financial Crisis: Insurance and Reinsurance Legal Developments

Chairman: Colin Croly - Chairman, AIDA Europe

Panel

Jorge Angell - Partner, LC Rodrigo Abogados, Spain -

Torben Bondrop - Partner, Plesner, Denmark

Robert Merkin - Professor, University of Southampton, UK

Richard Traub - Partner, Traub, Lieberman, Straus & Shrewsberry LLP, USA

Papers for discussion are set out below:

Paper 1 - Jorge Angell

Paper 2 - Richard Traub

Paper 3 - Richard Traub

Powerpoint - Richard Traub

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AIDA Europe Conference - Zurich, 23 October 2009

AIDA Europe in conjunction with the AIDA Swiss Coordinating Committee held the II AIDA Europe conference in Zurich on 23 October 2009. Again, the conference was a sell out with 200 delegates attending from all over Europe and beyond. The delegates were a mixture of in-house counsel, claims personnel, underwriters, accountants, adjusters, private practice lawyers, academics and others.

To see a list of our sponsors click here

The delegate list is attached here. To view the delegate pack including programme for this conference click here