Forthcoming Conferences
 
 

Insurance Insider

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9-10 December 2008


Buyers who are wondering how the market will tend in 2009 will hear speakers who will address subjects which directly influence the course rates will take.

Many of the specialist topics are of particular current interest and should prove to be of real benefit not only to buyers, but also to both insurers and brokers with direct personal experience of the subjects concerned.

The speakers are all passionate about their specialist subjects and are not afraid to let their views be known or to be confrontational if necessary.


Click here to download booking form.
Book before 31 October and receive a discount.


PROGRAMME

Day 1

P&I : threats and opportunities - is consolidation inevitable?

Paul Koronka, CEO Regis Mutual Management

P&I issues in 2009

• The last five years in the P&I market: a gathering storm? • Underwriting results and investment returns: the best of friends or the worst of enemies? • Enduring elements of P&I performance: plus ηa change, plus c'est la mκme chose? • The future of mutuality: stable progress or paradigm shift?
Joe Hughes, Chairman & CEO Shipowners Claims Bureau, Inc.
Managers for the American P&I Club, New York

The future of mutuality
• How relevant is mutuality to today's society? • Does mutuality have a place to play in a diversified financial services market? • Mutuals: growing globally
Shaun Tarbuck, Chief Executive, International Cooperative & Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF)

Preserving capital for mutuals in the post-credit crunch world
• Alternative capital structures • Managing the transition to Solvency II
Michael Butler, Partner, Moore Stephens

How brokers have changed the face of P&I
Jerry Westmore, Price Forbes

The lemmings are alive and well – aka the red ink bath
William Kinnear, Executive Director, Willis & Simon Stonehouse, Chairman Joint Hull Committee

Have the customer's needs changed?
• Limits to capacity (and are they about to become very much more severe?)
• Have we been over-insured and would a severe constraint on capacity be a good thing for us all? • Is there a bottom to the bottomless pit of US tort litigation?
Andrew Craig Bennett , General Manager, COSCO (UK)

Underwriting red ink and falling investment returns – What’s to be done?
Roger Ingles, Elysian Insurance Services

Day 2

How will we handle claims on a 13,000 TEU container ship?
What actions need to be taken by the various parties to the adventure to deal with the salvage, pollution damage and repairs to the vessel and how will the consequent claims be dealt with and by whom?
John Ahern, Rogers Wilkin Ahern Ltd

Modern marine casualties in the glare of publicity
Michael Grey, Lloyd's List

Maritime piracy – a pirate’s perspective
• What is the true threat of maritime piracy? • Is it out of control? • How can you reduce the threat?
Liam Morrissey & Simon Jones, BGN Risk

Salvage – what happens next?
John Noble, Noble Marine Services

Making money in a Takaful way
• The building blocks of Islamic finance • What is special about Takaful? • How to structure a Takaful Company • What investments are allowed?
Ben Macfarlane, BJ Macfarlane & Co

Marine insurance – the lessons of Bolero
Ake Nilson, Marinade

Modern claims & risk management information

Ilka McHugh, Aon

Straight through processing – the future of global insurance
• Technology for global electronic trading: Acord standards and Swift) • Will the London market suffer? • Should London embrace electronic trading?
Roger Foord, Roger Foord & Associates

Mistakes can be costly
Zareena Hussain, Full Circle MAT

Litigation anyone?
Tim McGovern, Snyder McGovern, Chicago

Marine insurance law reform: all smoke and mirrors? - An Australian perspective
Derek Luxford, Partner, Transport, Trade & Energy, Hicksons, Sydney

 

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