Belfast Coverage Symposium 2025
We are excited to announce this year’s Belfast Coverage Symposium! Join us on 4th December at the Grand Central Hotel.
Designed for brokers, the Coverage Symposium provides valuable insights into coverage and claims challenges – helping you navigate and avoid common pitfalls.
This year’s event kicks off with registration at 1:30pm, followed by expert-led talks on key legal cases shaping the insurance disputes landscape. The final session will end at 5:30pm, followed by networking drinks.
Location - Grand Central Hotel Belfast
2025 Programme
1:30 PM
Coffee & Registration
2:00 PM
Welcome, and Talks: Part 1
AI Revolution: implications for knowledge workers, regulated professionals, and policyholders
As the arrival of Generative Artificial Intelligence promises to bring huge changes to the world of work, David Pryce will discuss its potential impact on three related but distinct areas: the impact of Gen-AI on the day to day activities of knowledge workers; the ethical implications of the (mis)use of Gen-AI for regulated professionals, such as lawyers and insurance brokers; and the insurance implications for policyholders using Gen-AI.
SPEAKER
David Pryce, Senior Partner
Property damage & BI case study
A case study of a claim under a property damage policy, involving breaches of both the duty of fair presentation and a condition precedent. We will also consider a claim for late payment under s13A of the Insurance Act, and some specific business interruption issues, and offer some tips for brokers navigating these types of claims.
SPEAKERS
Alex Rosenfield, Partner
Jessica Chappell, Senior Associate
When Policies Collide - Untangling “Other Insurance” Clauses
This session will cover the different types of “Other Insurance” clauses in the context of double insurance and how such clauses interact with one another, including the recent decision in Watford Community Housing Trust v Arthur J Gallagher [2025] – a striking case of not just double but triple insurance.
SPEAKER
Abigail Smith, Associate
3:30 PM
Break
4:00 PM
Talks: Part 2
Covid BI – the big picture
“Unprecedented” was the phrase that most reverberated throughout the courtrooms during the Covid BI litigation in relation to the pandemic and its impact.
But its unprecedented effect goes beyond the nation’s health and wellbeing, and the economic effect on businesses; it has also had an impact on the legal landscape, and on English insurance law in particular, far wider than its subject matter.
With many policyholders finding that their business interruption policy did not respond to cover their pandemic losses, it is perhaps surprising that more brokers did not find themselves in the firing line.
Next time round they might not be so lucky. In this session, we look at what has changed and the steps brokers need to take to future-proof their policies and themselves!
SPEAKER
Joanna Grant, Managing Partner
Recent decisions on the Insurance Act 2015
This session will examine recent decisions on the Insurance Act 2015 and their implications for coverage and indeminity, with particular foucs on circumstances in which cover may be avoided.
Andrew Singer KC practices almost exclusively in the field of construction and associated professional negligence actions, appears regularly in the Technology & Construction Court and as Counsel in construction-related arbitrations as well as appointments as arbitrator. Andrew has also acted in matters relating to insurance coverage and related issues.
SPEAKER
Andrew Singer KC, Barrister, Kings Chambers
Common construction exclusions
They say one should judge the quality of an insurance policy by what it excludes. This talk will touch on the principles of interpreting policy exclusions, before covering some common professional indemnity exclusions, including contractual liability exclusions, cladding & fire safety exclusions, and liquidated damages exclusions.
SPEAKER
Daniel Robin, Deputy Managing Partner
5:30 PM
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Belfast Coverage Symposium
Venue: Grand Central Hotel Belfast
Date: 4 December 2025