Leeds Coverage Symposium 2025
We are excited to announce the return of the Leeds Coverage Symposium! Join us on 5th June at Aspire Leeds.
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 and a welcome lunch at 1pm, followed by talks on key legal cases, shaping the insurance disputes landscape. The final session will end at 5pm, leading into our wine tasting event at 5:30pm.
Equip yourself with the knowledge and expertise to better support your clients.
Location - Aspire Leeds
2025 Programme
1:00 PM
Registration & Lunch
2:00 PM
Welcome, and Talks: Part 1
How to avoid going up in smoke: a Property Damage and 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 2015, and some specific business interruption issues. The session will also include some tips for brokers navigating these types of claims.
SPEAKERS
Alex Rosenfield, Partner
Jessica Chappell, Senior Associate
Composite Insurance - What it is, and why does it matter?
This talk will discuss just what exactly is composite insurance, and how it affects issues such as non-disclosure, fraudulent claims, subrogation and s.13 claims for late payment.
SPEAKER
Jonathan Corman, Partner
Last Orders! Could this be the last Covid BI round-up?
As the tsunami of cases that was the Covid BI litigation finally looks to be running its course and with limitation on the horizon, we look at some of the recent decisions, discuss what is still going through the courts, and consider what loose ends remain to be tied up.
This will include the Court of Appeal decisions in:
- London International Exhibition Centre v Allianz
- International Entertainment v Allianz
- Bath Racecourse Company Ltd & Ors v Liberty Mutual
- UnipolSai Assicurazioni SPA v Covea
Plus the ongoing litigation in The Fulham Shore Limited v QIC
And where this leaves us with regard to causation, composite policies, occurrences, furlough and evidencing cases of Covid-19 ‘At the Premises’.
SPEAKER
Anthony McGeough, Senior Associate
3:30 PM
Break
3:45 PM
Talks: Part 2
How not to get sued: salutary tales from the Covid BI litigation
“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
The Sky’s the Limit: the implications of Sky & Mace v Riverstone [2024]
Chris will discuss the recent Court of Appeal decision in Sky UK Ltd & Mace Ltd v Riverstone and its commercial consequences. The Court’s decision covers a number of issues relevant to CAR brokers, but also from a general insurance perspective, including:
- The recoverability of development/deterioration damage after the period of insurance.
- Investigation/mitigation costs.
- What constitutes “damage”.
SPEAKER
Chris Ives, Partner
Excluded or Not Excluded – That is the Question
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 and cladding & fire safety exclusions, and will consider the issues that can arise in relation to claims for liquidated damages and the offset of fees.
SPEAKER
Daniel Robin, Deputy Managing Partner
5:00 PM
End of talks, and closing remarks
5:30 PM
Wine Tasting
Join us at our Leeds office (less than a 10-minute walk from Aspire Leeds) for a delightful evening at our fine wine tasting. Explore the subtle nuances and complex flavours of specially curated wines, complemented by a delicious selection of cheeses and charcuterie.
Speakers
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Leeds Coverage Symposium
Venue: Aspire Leeds
Date: 5 June 2025