LMA - Political Violence & Terrorism Group

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Political Violence & Terrorism Claims Group

The LMA Political Violence & Terrorism Claims Group focuses on claims issues arising from political violence and terrorism risks. It provides a forum for market discussion and best practices and assists the LMA Claims Committee and wider market in strengthening claims handling.

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Courtney Blinco

Senior Executive, Claims

Committee secretary

Martin MacDonald

Chair

Stephanie Gunson

Deputy Co-Chair

Julie Groves

Deputy Co-Chair

Key issues covered

The Political Violence & Terrorism Claims Group provides a platform for market-wide collaboration on claims issues in this sector, including terrorism, sabotage, strikes, riots and civil commotion, insurrection, war and other politically motivated violence. It works to support other LMA committees and the London market when affected by these risks. The group also delivers a dedicated forum to elevate claims expertise across the Lloyd’s market.

Geopolitical

The group continues to monitor geopolitical situations across multiple jurisdictions including the Ukrainian conflict with Russia, various South American and African conflicts and the ongoing Israeli/Haas conflict.

Learning and development

The group will again welcome the market to a Loss Adjuster panel discussion where representatives from various loss adjusting firms will join members of the group to discuss current hot topics across the sector.

Committee insights

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Upcoming events

For events hosted online, joining instructions will be emailed to all registered attendees closer to the date of the event no later than 24 hours prior to commencement.

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