Third party events

Launch event: What is life worth? Fairer compensation for personal injury and death

Date: 10 April 2025
Time: 09.15 to 16.30 BST
Location: University of York, York, UK

The Centre for Actuarial Compensation and Valuation of Life is a newly established research centre at the University of York. Its inaugural workshop will focus on the recently updated Personal Injury Discount Rate (PIDR) and periodical payment orders (PPOs). 

The workshop will: 

• provide an insight into state-of-the-art practice with respect to the calculation and administration of compensation in the UK
• focus on the debate that surrounds the setting of the key PIDR and the issues that prevent more widespread use of PPOs to provide better outcomes for claimants

Speakers

The speakers include:

• Fiona Dunsire (Government Actuary, Government Actuary’s Department)
• Julian Chamberlayne (Stewarts, Chair of FOCIS)
• William Latimer-Sayer (Cloisters, Chair of the OWP)
• Victoria Wass (Professor Emerita, Cardiff University)
• David Roberts (Partner, DAC Beachcroft LLP)
• Justin Thomas (Acorn Group, Chair of the IFoA’s PPO Working Party)

(A few more speakers will be confirmed in due course.) 

The workshop comes after a CPD event that provides an accessible introduction to the actuarial calculations for compensation in personal injury and fatal accident cases. 

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Insurance Data Science Conference

19-20 June 2025
Location: Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London.

The conference brings together academics and practitioners in areas including data science, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and InsurTech, as applied in the insurance industry.

Keynotes will be given by:

• James David Long (CTO, Palomar)
• Magdalena Ramada (Senior Director, WTW)
• Johanna Ziegel (Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich)

Booking

Please secure your ticket by registering here: https://insurancedatascience.org/#registration

Scientific committee

Academics: Katrien Antonio, Arthur Charpentier, Montserrat Guillen, Munir Hiabu, Ioannis Kyriakou, Mathias Millberg Lindholm, Filip Lindskog, Mike Ludkovski, Despoina Makariou, Pietro Millossovich, Silvana Pesenti, Salvatore Scognamiglio, Andreas Tsanakas, Stefan Weber, Bernard Wong, Mario Wüthrich, Rui Zhu

Industry: Luca Baldassarre, Can Baysal, Mick Cooney, Claudio Giorgio Giancaterino, Markus Gesmann, Marcela Granados Lavoie, Davide De March, Dylan Liew, Grainne McGuire, Wui Hua (John) Ng, Ronald Richman, Jürg Schelldorfer, Markus Senn, Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato