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Advanced Reinsurance Contracts and Disputes Masterclass Training Course

An intensive one-day programme that focusses on the latest legal developments, advanced drafting skills and disputes best practice, as well as up-to-the-minute issues that will ensure watertight reinsurance contracts.

12 February 2025
+ 26 June 2025, 1 October 2025 »
from £499

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Course overview

Reinsurance industry practices have changed in recent years, placing more and more emphasis and importance on reinsurance contract wordings. Attending this event will bring you right up to date with latest developments so you can have confidence in your contracts.

It is apparent now more than ever that a contract is only an advantage if it exactly reflects what the underwriter intended and the insured expected. If companies want to avoid lengthy and expensive disputes, they must develop clear and thorough reinsurance agreements and avoid frequent and small nuances that can land reinsurance companies in trouble.

Attending this event will bring you right up to date with the Insurance Act 2015 and the Enterprise Act 2016, and their impact on your policy wordings.

Other key topics that will be covered include:

Issues, options and effective drafting of follow wordings
Drafting wide or narrow clauses for settlements
Dealing with commutations
Notice, information and cliams control clauses
Common mistakes to avoid during drafting
Property and casualty clauses
Aggregation
Dispute resolution and the the implications of wordings

This seminar focuses on the advanced, up-to-the-minute issues and gives you the opportunity to ask your questions to the expert trainers.

This training course is part of our Insurance & Reinsurance Contracts Training Courses collection which covers up to the minute issues and the latest legal developments.

Benefits of attending

By attending this comprehensive course you will:

Get up-to-date with the latest developments in applicable law
Understand the impact of the Insurance Act 2015 and the Enterprise Act 2016 on your policy wordings
Hear about the role of notice, information and claims control/cooperation clauses
Grasp and learn to avoid the common mistakes in drafting watertight reinsurance clauses
Master the latest developments in property and casualty clauses
Gain knowledge of the regulatory considerations when launching a new product
Understand the implications of recent judgments involving follow clauses
Learn how to be prepared for reinsurance disputes and how to deal with them when they arise

Who should attend?

This course is applicable for anyone who is involved in the drafting or implementation of reinsurance wordings or who deal with reinsurance disputes, including:

Wordings technicians
Reinsurance technicians
Claims managers and underwriters
Wordings specialists
In-house lawyers
Lawyers in private practice

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Simon Cooper
DWF

Simon is a consultant in the Global Speciality & Financial Risks team at DWF Law LLP. He has more than 35 years’ experience of advising clients in the London and international insurance and reinsurance markets and has extensive experience of acting in large scale disputes in England and Internationally. Simon also has comprehensive experience of mediation and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Simon is a member of the IUA Clauses Subcommittee and past secretary of the International Bar Association's insurance committee. He edited the second edition of ‘Reinsurance Practice & the Law’ and writes and lectures frequently on legal issues. He is the current Lloyd's Members Ombudsman

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Sherry Goodman-Smith
DAC Beechcroft

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Duncan Strachan
DAC Beachcroft

Duncan Strachan is a Partner at DAC Beachcroft LLP. He specialises in complex and international (re)insurance matters across multiple lines of business. His current caseload advising on major energy losses in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia; monitoring US securities class action suits against non-US entities; and advising on exposure to climate change litigation. Duncan’s focus is on international disputes and policy coverage analysis, with particular expertise in Latin America and the Caribbean, due to his familiarity with the legal and political landscape across the region. Duncan is also fluent in Spanish and regularly presents to insurers and reinsurers across the world.

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Phillippa Rowe
Phillippa Ross & Co

Phillippa Rowe, senior partner of independent reinsurance consultants Phillippa Ross & Co., has over 30 years experience of insurance and reinsurance claims in Lloyd’s and the London market and internationally. She began her reinsurance career with 15 years with the Kiln group at Lloyd’s. She currently acts as arbitrator, mediator, expert witness and technical consultant in a wide range of claims, wordings and market practice matters and writes, lectures and provides training courses on similar subjects.

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Sherry Goodman-Smith
DAC Beechcroft

Sherry Goodman-Smith is a specialist in complex insurance and reinsurance policy coverage disputes. She joined DAC Beachcroft's Global Insurance practice as a partner, based in London, in 2021.

Sherry spent the previous eight years at Simmons & Simmons, most recently as Of Counsel. There she advised London market insurers and reinsurers on large-scale coverage issues, with a particular focus on product liability and recall, international casualty and complex property claims. She has also advised on coverage issues arising from more niche insurance policy wordings, including kidnap and ransom, intellectual property liability, and fine art claims.

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NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:

30% off the 2nd delegate*
40% off the 3rd delegate*
50% off the 4th delegate*

Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates

12 February 2025

Live online

09:15-17:15 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:15-18:15 Paris (UTC+01)
04:15-12:15 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 14502

GBP 499 599
EUR 719 859
USD 823 979

Until 08 Jan

1 day live online training
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26 June 2025

Live online

09:15-17:15 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:15-18:15 Paris (UTC+02)
04:15-12:15 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14743

GBP 499 599
EUR 719 859
USD 823 979

Until 22 May

1 day live online training
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1 October 2025

Live online

09:15-17:15 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:15-18:15 Paris (UTC+02)
04:15-12:15 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14962

GBP 499 599
EUR 719 859
USD 823 979

Until 27 Aug

1 day live online training
Browser-based, no download usually required
See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
Download documentation and certification of completion
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for 7 days, no obligation

* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.