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THE GROWING CHALLENGE OF MEETING CUSTOMER NEEDS: QUO VADIS, INSURANCE MARKET?
Conference Centre of ETHNIKI ASFALISTIKI (Ethniki Insurance Company SA) 103-105, Syngrou Avenue 11745 ATHENS (the support of Ethniki Ins Co is very gratefully acknowledged)
Is the insurance market ready quickly and effectively to meet the needs of its customers, ranging from
consumers to multinationals and beyond?
More than just financial protection is now expected. Also, the promotion of wellbeing, of helping
customers satisfy a myriad of regulatory, legal, environmental, social and governance requirements,
and at the same time meet the challenge to withstand financial and geopolitical upheaval in a world
of increasing climatic change, disruption and technological innovation. Where are insurers succeeding
and where are the greatest threats or opportunities? What place is there for, and what is the impact
of, customer “choice”?
Engage in two days of informed and stimulating discussion, keynote presentations and interactive sessions with specialist panels and working party meetings, populated by legal and insurance practitioners, regulators, academics and commentators from across Europe and beyond. At the same time, take the opportunity to meet and spend time with your peers in the easily accessed and delightful bustling city of Athens, with its many attractions and places of interest.
For the Conference Organising Committee
Alkistis Christofilou and Tim Hardy Prof.
Co-Chairs, ΑIDA EUROPE
Dr Efi Tziva
Chair, Hellenic Insurance Law Association, AIDA Europe Greek AIDA Chapter
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AIDA Europe Scientific Committee
Effective 6 February 2017, the AIDA Europe Academic/Student Sub-Committee and the AIDA Europe Scientific Council merged to become the AIDA Europe Scientific Committee.
The key features of AIDA Europe Scientific Committee's Mission are to:
assist with the identification of the topics for the AIDA Europe Conferences;
manage the books of the AIDA Europe Research Series for Insurance Law and Regulation;
issue the AIDA Europe’s Calls for Papers;
help develop young academic talents and manage the AIDA Europe Young Authors Awards; and
provide the content for, and support the management of, any other academic work.
AIDAEUROPE RESEARCH SERIES ON INSURANCE LAW & REGULATION
The AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation is the first book series of its kind and area of specialization.
It comprises volumes on topics researched and written with an international, comparative or European perspective.
https://www.springer.com/series/16331.
Click on the above book cover icons for details about the nine books presently published in the series:
Transparency
in Insurance Contract Law
InsurTech: A Legal and Regulatory
View*
Insurance Distribution Directive: A Legal
Analysis**
Transparency in Insurance Regulation and Supervisory
Law
The Governance of Insurance Undertakings
Insurance and
Human Rights
Covid-19 and Insurance
Cross-Disciplinary
Impacts on Insurance Law
Managing Environmental Risks through
Insurance
*open access to three chapters of the book on InsurTech is currently kindly funded by BIPAR | The European Federation of Insurance Intermediaries.
**This is the first book to be made fully open access courtesy of AIDA Europe sponsors. Please click on the image of the book to gain access.
Additionally, the AIDA Europe Scientific Committee is making further calls for papers unrelated to the AIDA Conferences/Young Authors Awards. Further books in the pipeline for publication in this series are: "Beyond insurance – the wider angle viewpoint" and "The Challenge of Sustainability for Insurance".
In June 2017 the AIDA Europe Scientific Committee issued the first of their Calls for Papers. For details of past calls and those issued prior to 2017 by the AIDA Europe Academic/Student Sub Committee - see side panel.
Latest Calls for Papers:
July 2023: "Legal and Regulatory Challenges of Emerging Insurance Product Distribution Models" - Academic papers are invited focussing on emerging insurance distribution models, especially those supported by new technologies with the purpose of highlighting to what extent the related distribution models are disruptive and beneficial to customers and the challenges to customers' best interests.
For suggested eligible areas, full information and submission details see the official announcement.
January 2022: "The Challenge of Sustainability for Insurance" - Academic papers are invited from a national, transnational, international or comparative perspective, on any one of a very wide range of impacts of sustainability on insurance, reinsurance, legal, investment and business aspects of the insurance contract and regulatory matters.
For suggested eligible areas, full information and submission details see the officialannouncement.
AIDAYOUNG AUTHORS AWARDS
The AIDA Scientific Committee has continued the practice, started in 2009 by the AIDA Europe Academic/Student Sub Committee, of making Young Authors Awards.
The winners of the most recent Young Authors Awards for their responses to the March 2020 Call for Papers linked to the 9th AIDA Europe Conference – on the topic of “The governance of insurance undertakings between corporate law and insurance regulation”
Angelo Borselli - “Insurance in M&A Transactions”
Jeremmy Okonjo - “The algorithmic future of insurance supervision in the EU: A reality check” (for his paper co-written with Andromachi Georgosouli)
Their papers will be published with the support of publishers, Springer in due course.
For a full list of previous winners of these Awards since 2009 – see side panel at https://aidainsurance.org/regional-groupings/aida-europe/governance-structure/aida-europe-scientific-committee
10th AIDA EUROPE CONFERENCE VARIOUS POSTSCRIPT
Speakers

Mr Simon Dejung
Chief Underwriting Officer, Global Cyber & Technology @ Axis Reinsurance, Zurich, Switzerland

Mr Francisco S. Espejo Gil
Assistant Director @ Research and International Relations, Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros (CCS), Madrid, Spain
Agenda
Thursday 30 May 2024

Alkistis Christofilou

Carlos Alberto Estebenet


Ioannis Rokas

EFI TZIVA
Issues:
• Regulating online distribution of insurance products in Europe
o New and expected regulation
o Examples of tech-related products
▪ Impact on cross border distribution between EU and non-EU countries
o Embedded insurance as a buying experience: legal implications under new rules
o Robo-advice

Robert Gauci

Marcin Kawiński


Yannis Samothrakis

Pierpaolo Marano
Issues:
• Challenges facing the cyber insurance market
• Experience of the European Cybercrime Task Force
• Issues facing the insurance of digital assets (such as cryptocurrency and digital tokens)
• Panel discussion – how can the cyber challenges be overcome?

Georgios Papaprodromou

Franziska Arnold-Dwyer

Simon Dejung


Jörg Schauff


Peter Wedge
Issues:
• Alternative models: the example of cover of pandemics
• Assessing the two systems: overlaps, complementary covers, gaps?
• AI and Health
• Health Care and Health Insurance: prevention vs indemnification – the interplay
• European Heath Data Space and its impact on health insurance

Christina Andrikopoulou


George Papagiannakis

EFI TZIVA
Theme: Recent developments in cyber insurance and in D&O insurance


Carolin Schilling-Schulz

ANASTASIOS TAMAMIDIS
Topics: Political Risks Insurance/recent developments in reinsurance in English law including 'arbitration and jurisdiction clauses in aviation claims made after Russia- Ukraine war'/ 'reinsurance claims in relation to Covid-19 BI losses').


Michelle George


Adrian Mecz
Theme: How to regulate group policies?
Issues:
• Group insurance as a distribution model (conflicts of interest, obligations to insured, commercial and legal position of policyholder)
• Testing the impact of the CJEU decision
• Discussing with audience a draft questionnaire on the regulation of group insurance as a distribution model, with the aim to produce proposals for the IDD review

Carlo Francesco Galantini

Can Luo


Valentina Ogliari

Pierpaolo Marano

Yannis Samothrakis
Topics: Smart vehicles and ICT, emerging distribution models, devices to reduce the risk of accidents, recent case rulings

Konstantinos Christodoulou

Massimo Francesco Dotto


María Luisa Muñoz Paredes

Kyriaki Noussia

ANDREA SIGNORINO

Simona Viciani


ANDREA SIGNORINO
A central location close to Syntagma Square, the vibrant heart of Athens, with stunning views of the Acropolis monument and surrounding area.
During the Reception the opportunity will be taken to celebrate the work of young authors and all responding to AIDA Europe Calls for Papers.
Friday 31 May 2024
Issues:
• Joint public-private sector risk distribution: alternative models
• Illustrations/shortcomings in resources and enforcement
• Paradoxes in bearing and sharing of knowledge, responsibility, and control
• Role, history, and future of protection gap entities/PPPs:
o Country/perils experiences contrasted and considered
o Market/customer expectations reconciled
• Role of parametric insurance solutions

Konstantinos Chalkias

Francisco S. Espejo Gil

Erwin Smit

Vasileios Volonakis

Stijn Franken
Issues:
• Realities of applying Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) in practice – in context of consumer, SMEs, as well as large-scale corporate/institutional policyholders
• Impact of ESG and better risk management via net zero-aligned insurance products
• Role of insurers and capacity for changed practices in precontract negotiations, pricing, terms and claims and legal framework required to take effect
• Wider implications with onset of new risks, channels, products and technologies


Franziska Arnold-Dwyer

Harald Ullman

Ioannis Vasilatos
Theme:
• Review of current liability and litigation landscape across different jurisdictions for corporates and other private and public entities
• Impact of compliance with ESG disclosures, emissions targets and litigation funding and differing representative action and alternative dispute resolution regimes.

Franziska Arnold-Dwyer



Chris Rodd

Jonathan Scragg


Chris Rodd
Topics: Impact and solution of digitalization and new technologies for personal insurance; Social sustainability and personal insurance issues.


Jérôme KULLMANN

Lydia Velliscig
Theme: Marine insurance risks – recent developments

Johnny Kuan-Chun Chang




Richard Sarll
Theme: The essential elements of an insurance contract and the boundaries of it
Issues:
• What distinguishes an insurance contract from consumer guarantee contracts, P2P, sharing economy, etc.?
• What are the implications of the CJEU judgements on group insurance contracts from a contractual perspective and the application of EU Regulation Rome I on conflicts of laws?


Artemis-Pasiphae Karagiorgaki
