AIDA EUROPE

AIDA Europe was established in Rome in 2007.  Its aim is to bring together the National Associations in Europe, as a regional grouping, to further the aims of AIDA on a regional basis and to generate enthusiasm and industry involvement in the work of AIDA.

The inaugural conference of AIDA Europe was held in Hamburg in May 2008 attended by 200 delegates.    A further half-day conference, the second AIDA Europe conference was held in Budapest in November 2008 at the same time as the Hungarian AIDA Chapter Colloquium.   The third full-day conference of AIDA Europe has taken place in Zurich at the end of October 2009 again attended by 200 delegates.  There were also AIDA Working Party meetings of the following working parties:

Forthcoming Events

AIDA World Congress, Paris 17 - 20 May 2010 - AIDA Europe Session, Thursday 20 May 14.30h - 17.00h

Please contact the AIDA Europe Secretariat by email to aidaeurope@btinternet.com if you need additional information.

AIDA Europe Committee 

Colin Croly                               Chairman (UK Chapter)
Jerome Kullmann                    Vice Chairman (French Chapter)

Torben Bondrop                      (Danish Chapter)
Giuseppina Capaldo                (Italian Chapter)
Otto Csurgo                             (Hungarian Chapter)
Slobodan Jovanovic                 (Serbian Chapter)
Robert Koch                             (German Chapter)
Jose Maria Munoz Paredas     (Spanish Chapter)
Ioannis Rokas                          (Greek Chapter)
Peggy Sharon                          (Israeli Chapter)

Herman Cousy                         Treasurer (Belgian Chapter)

AIDA Europe Academic/Students Sub-Committee

This committee under the co-chairmanship of Professor Robert Koch (member of the AIDA Europe Committee) and Kyriaki Noussia had as its first project put in motion an invitation to students to participate in a competition for the writing of papers for acceptance for presentation at working party meetings at the AIDA Europe Conference in Zurich in 2009.  Two students, Ozlem Gurses and Stella Sakellaridou, were selected to make such a presentation and to attend, expenses paid, the AIDA Europe Conference in Zurich.  The report of the Sub-Committee is attached here.

Congratulations to these prize winners.  

AIDA Europe Inaugural Conference-Hamburg, 23 May 2008

AIDA Europe held its inaugural conference in Hamburg on 23 May 2008 in association with the Insurance Committee of the International Bar Association.  The conference was a complete sell-out with 200 delegates attending from all over Europe and beyond.  The delegates were a mixture of private practice lawyers, in-house counsel, claims personnel, accountants, adjusters and other industry players.  A pre-conference drinks reception hosted by Plesner Svane Gronborg was held on the eve of the conference and was well attended by delegates.

The conference began with two key note speeches.  Wilhelm Zeller, Chairman of the Executive Board of Hannover Re, began by talking about the challenges facing the (re)insurance industry in Europe today (for a copy of the presentation see below).  He identified over-regulation especially in the US and the UK, natural catastrophes, climate change and under reserving in respect of long-tail liabilities as being amongst the biggest challenges facing the industry.

Dennis Mahoney, Chairman of Aon Global, gave the second key note address on the topic of how the US and Bermuda view Europe.

Several lawyers and industry figures participated on panel discussions which took place throughout the conference on topics including: present and future risks-the lastest developments and next big claims; class actions-will Europe have to face a US-style litigation culture in the future?; and cross border multi-jurisdictional disputes and how to manage them.

Professor Helmut Heiss, University of Zurich, and Professor Diana Cerini, University of MIlan, spoke on the work of the Innsbruck Group on Principles of European Insurance Contract Law.  Professor Robert Merkin and Johanna Hjalmarsson of the University of Southampton, also gave a presentation on the European Intermediaries Directive.  (See the delegate pack below for copies of these presentations)

For those who wanted to see more of Hamburg after the conference, a sight-seeing boat cruise was arranged and hosted by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty on Saturday morning in glorious sunshine.

To view a copy of the delegate pack for this conference, please click here

Slides taken from the Conference

Challenges facing the (Re)Insurance industry

The view from across the pond-how the US and Bermuda view Europe

AIDA Europe Conference - Zurich, 23 October 2009

AIDA Europe in conjunction with the AIDA Swiss Coordinating Committee held a further 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

To view the delegate pack including programme for this conference click here

AIDA Europe By-Laws

To view the AIDA Europe By-Laws please click here

AIDA Europe General Assembly Minutes

To view the minutes of the AIDA Europe General Assembly, as held on 22 May 2008, please click here