Webinar: Bodily Injury Claims Inflation Trends 2026 in Europe and Australia

About the International Bodily Injury Index

The LMA’s International Bodily Injury Index, launched in 2024, tracks personal injury compensation award costs across a wide range of international jurisdictions and bodily injury types.

Developed in collaboration with DAC Beachcroft, the Index provides valuable insight into inflation and deflation trends affecting bodily injury claims.

What to expect

This webinar will bring together legal and data specialists from across Europe and Australia to explore the latest findings from the Index and discuss the key trends emerging in their respective markets.

Speakers will examine the levels of claims inflation and deflation identified within the Index, providing context on the legal, regulatory and economic factors influencing compensation awards in different jurisdictions.

Further reading

Ahead of the webinar, attendees may wish to read the LMA overview, Understanding International Bodily Injury Award Trends, which provides interpretation and context for the findings emerging from the International Bodily Injury Index. Detailed figures, jurisdiction-level data and scenario-specific analysis are available to subscribing managing agents.

Speakers

Members will hear regional insights from:

• Duncan Strachan, Partner, DAC Beachcroft (London)
• David Flint, Principal, Gilchrist Connell (Brisbane)
• Alison Cassidy, Partner, DAC Beachcroft (Belfast)
• Elaine Kennedy, Associate, DAC Beachcroft (Belfast)
• John Sheehy, Partner, DAC Beachcroft (Dublin)
• Guido Foglia, Partner, DAC Beachcroft (Rome)
• Melissa Fenton, Principal, Gilchrist Connell (Sydney)

Key learning objectives

Members will gain insight into:

• bodily injury claims inflation and deflation trends across Europe and Australia
• the legal, economic and regulatory factors influencing compensation awards
• emerging developments within individual jurisdictions.

Additional session

A separate webinar covering Canada and Latin America will take place at 16.00 on the same day, providing a broader view of global bodily injury claims inflation trends.

Audience

This webinar is open to practitioners involved in international casualty and liability business who are interested in tracking comparative personal injury compensation trends, claims costs and bodily injury claims inflation across jurisdictions.

We look forward to welcoming you.