Cross-Disciplinary Impacts on Insurance Law

Prof. Margarida Lima Rego is full professor and dean of NOVA School of Law, NOVA University, Lisbon, where she has lectured regularly since 2005. She is the holder of the Jean Monnet Module in EU Insurance Law: Challenges in the SDG Era. Margarida’s main areas of research and practice are civil and commercial law, with a special focus on insurance law. She has been a member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities since December 2021. Margarida is an active researcher at CEDIS, the School’s R&D Unit, where she founded and coordinates the NOVA Knowledge Centre for Data-Driven Law. Current positions include: President of AIDA Portugal; member of the Executive Committee and Scientific Committee of AIDA Europe; of the Scientific Committee of CILA; and of the Presidential Council of AIDA World.Prof. Simon Grima is the the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, and the Head of the Departmentof Insurance and Risk Management. Simon is also a Professor at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics and a visiting Professor at UNICATT Milan. Moreover, he is the chairman of the Scientific Education Committee of the Public Risk Management Organization (PRIMO) and the Federation of European Risk Managers (FERMA) and has been awarded outstanding reviewer for Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance in the 2017 and 2022 Emerald Literati Awards.

• Part I – Insurance and ESG Impact.- The Insurance Sector’s Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals: a Story Worth Telling?.- Insurance is Accelerating Economic and Social Change in the United States: a Legal and Sociological Perspective.- The role of insurance in dealing with disasters: the case of agricultural insurance.- Measurement of the Level of Government Intervention in the Compulsory Health Insurance System: Cross-country Comparative Analysis.- Part II – Financial Innovation in Insurance Regulation.- Historical, Definitional, and Implementional Issues of Financial Services Regulation in a Small Jurisdiction.- Public/ Private Risk Financing Innovation: the Case of Government Self- Insurance Risk Pools in the United States.- Comparison of Efficiency Levels of Turkish Insurance Companies with VZA Malmquist Total Factor Efficiency Analysis.- Unpacking the Impact of Capital Structure on Financial Performance in the Insurance Industry: Evidence from Kosovo's Market.- Part III –The Impact of New Technologies and Other Recent Developments in Insurance Law and Regulation.- The Principle of Proportionality in Solvency II.- Automatic Vehicles and Legal/Insurance Risks. A New British “Quasi-Legislative” Point of Observation and Glimpses of Liability in Tort in Italy.- A Study of the Effectiveness of the General Data Protection Regulation for Risk Mitigation in the Insurance Industry: a Maltese Perspective.- The Digitalization of the Insurance Industry and the Growth of Life Insurance in India.- Exploring the Suitability of the Protected Cell Company Structure for Shipping Business: a Call for Further Discussion and Research.- Goods and Services Tax Implications on the Insurance Sector: Assessment of Awareness and Knowledge.- The Effectiveness of Recent Policyholder-friendly Laws at Addressing Complaints in India.