The VIth AIDA Europe Conference, entitled “Flood of Change: Insurance in Times of Change – Technology, Climate, Regulation” took place, in collaboration with the Austrian AIDA Chapter, on 3 and 4 November 2016, in Vienna, Austria.
The Programme for the Conference included the topical highlights:
- Changing Landscape for Business and Lawyers in the light of New Technologies
- Regulatory Change, in particular, Over-Regulation
- Insurance in times of Climate Change
- Fraud – the Law and what the Insurance Market faces
- Insurance and Litigation Funding
The conference also included AIDA Working Party meetings (Thursday, 3 November, 2016) on:
- Credit and Surety, Consumer Protection and Dispute Resolution and Distribution of Insurance Products - Joint Meeting: Bancassurance from the Perspective of Consumer Protection, Distribution of Insurance Products and Consumer Credit
- Marine Insurance: Cyber Risks and Marine Insurance
- Motor Insurance: The Interests of Consumers and Third Party Victims
- Reinsurance: A is for Aggregation... Update on the Legal Issues Arising out of the Christchurch and Chilean Earthquakes and Californian and Australian Wildfires/Bushfires
- Climate Change: Current legal, insurance and environmental challenges in adapting to Climate Change
Further working sessions included:
- In-House Counsel: Smart Contract Management
- ARIAS (AIDA Insurance and Reinsurance Arbitration Service) meeting dealing with:
- Introduction to ARIAS Europe
- in Arbitration? The National Approaches
