Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances
AIDA MAIL              Spring 2006
 

1. Introduction

2. News from the Presidential Council

3. News from the Working Parties

4. News from the National Chapters

5. Legal Developments

6. AIDA Prize for Scientific Investigation

7. AIDA website

8. How to contribute to future issues of AIDA Mail

3. News from the Working Parties

Working Party Meetings

The following Working Party meetings took place during the CILA Congress at the Hilton Hotel, Guadalajara, Mexico on Thursday 16 March 2006 from 6.30pm to 8.30pm: Reinsurance; Accumulation of Claims and Subrogation; Insurance and Prevention and Insurance of Civil Liability.

To view the minutes of the Reinsurance Working Party in Guadalajara click here.

Reinsurance Working Party Reports

The Reinsurance Working Party's project to produce a series of comparative reportson global reinsurance law continues.

Reports 4, 5 & 6 are still available to buy through the AIDA Secretariat. For details on the Reports, plus price and purchase information, please click on the link below to access the flyer and order form.

Report 4, entitled 'The Meaning of "Event" and Similar Phrases in Reinsurance Contracts' (edited by Michael Mendelowitz of Barlow Lyde & Gilbert) and Report 5, entitled 'Evidence of Custom and Practice in the Interpretation of Reinsurance Contracts' (edited by Katherine B Posner of Condon & Forsyth) were both published at the end of 2004. The sixth report in the series, entitled 'Cut Through, Transfer and Reconstruction Issues' (edited by Michael Gill and Andrew Toland of Phillips Fox), was published in 2005.

Report No.7 (Intermediaries) and No.8 (Limitation) are currently being prepared. If you would like to contribute, you can do so by completing one of the questionnaires - available through the website. Reports 1, 2 and 3, first published in 1999 and 2000 will shortly be revised and updated.

For further information on the Reinsurance Working Party Reports and details of how to obtain other reports, please click here to be taken to the relevant section of the AIDA website.

Click here to access the Reinsurance Working Party Report order form