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A legal overview of the impact of this rule on the bancassurance sector
Insurance and Reinsurance Year in Review 2025
In this Year in Review, we provide an overview of the key developments in 2025 that are relevant to the insurance sector...
Ibero-American Insurance Update – Q4 2025
Pérez-Llorca takes top honours at inaugural Legal 500 Iberia Awards
When Insurance Becomes Law: Benefits and Risks
Joaquín Ruiz Echauri and Jacinto Ávalos share their views in Expansión on the societal role, advantages and structural challenges of making automobile liability insurance mandatory by law...
Qui plectit?
The powers of home and host Member States’ insurance supervisory authorities to deal with breaches of the law under Insurance Law...
Ibero-American Insurance Update – Q3 2025
ADR Criteria
Insurance Legal Update – Q2 2025
Principales novedades normativas y jurisprudenciales en el sector asegurador 2024
On a large scale
Traditionally, power blackouts have had traceable and identifiable causes. The most recent incident we can look at, apart from yesterday’s widespread blackout in Spain, is the major blackout in Catalonia in May 2007 caused by a fire at the Maragall e...
Insurance Legal Update – Q1 2025
Insurance Legal Update – Q4 2024
Insurance and Reinsurance Year in Review 2024
In this Year in Review, we offer an overview of the new developments that have taken place in 2024 and that are relevant to the insurance sector, as well as our predictions for the coming year...
The impact of artificial intelligence on the insurance sector analysed at the...
Insurance Legal Update – Q3 2024
Insurance Legal Update – Q2 2024
The CNMV’s new Technical Guide on Audit Committees at Public-Interest Entities
We analyse the main new features introduced by the Guide...
Principales novedades normativas y jurisprudenciales en el sector asegurador 2023
Insurance Legal Update – Q1 2024
The Directive on liability for defective products
The purpose of this Legal Briefing is to explain the main elements and scope of the new Directive with a comparative annex of the two Directives included...
Insurance and Reinsurance Year in Review 2023
We offer an overview of the new developments that have taken place in 2023 and that are relevant to the insurance sector, as well as our predictions for the coming year...
Occupational pension plans and funds
We address the regulatory development of the Law regulating the promotion of occupational pension plans (the "LRPE")...
Legal Studies on Sustainability, Climate Change and ESG Criteria in Spain and the EU
Insurance and Reinsurance Year in Review 2022
Discover the predictions for 2023 and the most significant insurance and reinsurance rulings of 2022...
CEOE and Pérez-Llorca discuss employee pension plans
The improper policyholder and the Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 29 September 2022
In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the position of the improper policyholder in relation to the recent decision of the CJEU in its judgment of 29 September 2022...
Regulation of the outsourcing of services and processes for insurance and reinsurance undertakings
The AEPD approves the Code of Conduct Regulating the Processing of Personal Data in the Common Information Systems of the Insurance Sector
In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the “Code of Conduct Regulating the Processing of Personal Data in the Common Information Systems of the Insurance Sector”...
Law on employee pension plans
In this Legal Briefing we analyse the regulation promoting occupational pension plans...
Commentary on the Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 20 June 2022, Case C 700/20
Main regulatory and case law developments in the insurance sector 2021
The improper policyholder
This Legal Briefing analyse the concept of the improper policyholder...
The impact of Insurtech on the insurance sector analysed at the Pérez-Llorca/IE Chair
The event was organised in collaboration with the Association of Young Insurance Professionals and with the participation of Cobee, IMeureka and Gocleer...
Pérez-Llorca/IE Chair: Insurtech – Legal challenges and success stories
On 21 April at 6:30 p.m. we will hold a new Pérez-Llorca/IE Chair session in the auditorium of Pérez-Llorca’s offices at Paseo de la Castellana 50...
It doesn’t all end with Article 3 of the Insurance Contract Act
On 28 February, the Murcia Court of Appeal (First Section) handed down Judgment no. 78/2022...
Draft Law on Employee Pensions Plans
In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the main novelties of the Draft Law on Employment Pension Plans...
Insurance and Reinsurance Year in Review 2021
Discover the predictions for 2022 and the most significant insurance and reinsurance rulings of 2021...
European commission views on conflicts of interest in IBIPS distribution and insurance distribution regulation obligations for the employees of the distributor
This Legal Briefing analyses the European Commission’s responses to two consultations on the interpretation of the Insurance Distribution Directive...
Bold
The LCS does not require us to highlight in bold, only that we highlight, but this typographic technique is a common go-to...
Three legislative challenges for claims handling in the future
In this Briefing, we analyse three prospective pieces of legislation that would significantly change the claims handling process by insurers...
The Constitutional Court has declared certain provisions of Royal Decree 463/2020, which declared a state of alarm for the management of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, to be unconstitutional
This Briefing analyses the unconstitutionality of the challenged provisions and the consequences of this...
Engagement policy and investment strategy of life insurance and reinsurance companies regarding listed companies following the publication of RD 288/2021
In this Legal Briefing we analyse the amendments introduced by this reform to the engagement policy and investment by insurance and reinsurance companies...
The Pérez-Llorca/IE Chair analyses the role of insurers with regard to cyber risks
The Pérez-Llorca/IE Chair on Commercial Law analysed common concerns about the rise of cybercrime arising from digitalisation and the role of cyber-risk insurance...
Pérez-Llorca/IE Chair: Insurance against cyber risks
On Wednesday 24 March at 16:30, Pérez-Llorca and IE Law School will hold a new session of their joint Chair on Commercial Law...
On insurance coverage in the interruption of business
In this article we comment on some aspects of the ruling handed down on 3 February by the 1st Section of the Girona Court of Appeal...
Estoppel in claims handling
This Legal Briefing analyses the issues relating to estoppel that may arise for insurance companies during the claims handling process...
The concept of claim under civil liability insurance: conceptual and interpretative doubts
This new Legal Briefing analyses the concept of "claim" (reclamación), a key element of any civil liability insurance contract...
The transfer of insurance renewal rights
In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the main practical issues raised by the lack of regulation surrounding the transfer of renewal rights, as well as the suitability of a stance by the national regulator that establishes clear rules and guarantees for...
Inadvertent freedom to provide services operations
We have analysed the practical and legal implications of inadvertently falling under the scope of the freedom to provide services...
The melody of uncertainty
Of all the threats approaching over the insurance horizon in this complex back-to-school season, in September 2020, the most worrying is a landscape marked increasingly by ultra-low interest rates...
On-demand insurance in Spain
In this Legal Briefing, we analyse on-demand insurance, a concept which has appeared as one of the possible urgent responses to this new scenario...
Pérez-Llorca brings in Joaquín Ruiz Echauri as partner to set up and lead the...
