Insurance Law and Regulation

Convenor: Professor Gary Meggitt

Professor Gary Meggitt has written extensively on civil litigation, lawyers’ professional conduct and insurance-related subjects. He is a contributing author to A Guide to Civil Procedure in Hong Kong (Sixth Edition, LexisNexis, 2017); author of Wilkinson’s Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong (LexisNexis, 2019); author of Mediation and ADR Confidentiality in Hong Kong (Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2019) and Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong volume on Limitation of Actions (LexisNexis, 2015); and the general editor of Civil Justice Reform – What has it achieved? (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010).

The AIIFL has been assisting the Faculty of Law to promote the Insurance Law LLM course to local practitioners and finance professionals since 2008-09. The Insurance Law course is one of the subjects in the LLM in Corporate and Financial Law Programme covering the most important aspects of insurance law, with particular emphasis on the international practice of insurance law. 

Professor Meggitt serves on both the Hong Kong Law Society’s Insurance Law Committee and the Hong Kong Insurance Authority’s Future Task Force. He has written on the insurance implications of the Covid 19 pandemic and wrote a chapter on insurance and pandemics for the The Global Insurance Market and Change: Emerging Technologies, Risks and Legal Challenges (Routledge, Lloyds Insurance Law Library). He has also written a chapter on marine insurance fraud for the Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law (Edward Elgar). Professor Meggitt has also been conducting research on the subject of Insurtech, with the aim to publish a monograph entitled Insurtech and Insurance Law.

Past Events

Future Challenges for Professionals and their Insurers (2 October 2024)
AI in Insurance: A New Regulatory Focus (28 April 2023)
The Covid 19 Pandemic and Business Interruption Insurance (BII) (28 February 2023)