BEGLINGER, Shirley

Education

BA, ACII Chartered Insurance Practitioner

Positions Held

• Advisory Board Member, Crescendo Advisors
• Independent Underwriting Peer Reviewer to Chaucer Syndicate 1084
• Non-Executive Chairman, National Pharmacy Association Insurance (NPAI) Ltd
• Senior Vice President, Marsh UK Ltd
• Managing Director, Aon UK Ltd
• Managing Director & Class Underwriter for Financial Institutions, Swiss Re (London & Zurich)

Present Position

• Director, Shires Partnership Limited
• Independent Underwriting Peer Reviewer to Dual Corporate Risks
• Multiple Arbitrator and Expert Witness Appointments

Recent cases include:-

• An arbitration concerning PI claims arising out of pensions advice
• A reinsurance dispute concerning the recoverability under a Catastrophe XL of Covid-19 non-damage BI claims
• A facultative reinsurance dispute concerning the right of a reinsurer to direct the disposition of claims
• A consultation seeking to ascertain whether a longstanding insurance arrangement was a finite insurance or a traditional risk transfer
• A Business Interruption dispute where Insurers allege pre-contractual material non-disclosure
• A VAT dispute relating to the ongoing handling of PPI claims
• An arbitration dealing with a broker’s duty of disclosure at policy renewal under the Insurance Act 2015
• An arbitration concerning claim apportionment between a specific British professional indemnity policy and a wider German design/build policy

Professional Associations

• Associate of The Chartered Insurance Institute
• Chartered Insurance Practitioner
• Past Fellow for Insurance, Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation
• Panel Member of ARIAS (UK)

Experience

Extensive knowledge from both an underwriting and a broking perspective of non-marine insurance (including delegated authorities) and reinsurance business, including Property and Business interruption and liability classes and business emanating from the UK, USA, and internationally. Have held senior Executive and Non-Executive Director positions. Have acted as an expert witness in 74 cases venued in England, USA, Guernsey, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Dubai and South Africa. Also appointed as an arbitrator in 5 cases empanelled in England. Can speak to both past and current market custom and practice in the UK, USA, and Continental Europe, due to prior and ongoing industry involvements.

• 10 years as primary lead underwriter on D&O, Crime and PI insurance for banks
• 6 years as a primary lead underwriter on Commercial Property and Business Interruption
• 10 years as reinsurance specialist underwriter on property and casualty treaties (proportional and non-proportional) and facultative risks
• 7 years in banking – trading, asset management and private banking.

Foreign Languages

Fluent German, French and Hebrew. Advanced Spanish and passable Italian.