ABL North America Maritime Breakfast Briefing
Join us for ABL’s first North America Maritime Breakfast Briefing of 2026, exploring the following topic:
From Survey Deck to Underwriting Desk: What Recent Industry Trends and Cases Tell Us About Emerging Risk
ABL’s North America Maritime Managing Director, Sean Murphy, will present our April briefing on ‘Survey Deck to Underwriting Desk: What Recent Industry Trends and Cases Tell Us About Emerging Risk’.
In this presentation, we will take a broader look back at the forces influencing the regional marine insurance landscape, from geopolitical flashpoints and changes in global trade behavior to U.S. regulatory and legislative developments such as the SHIPS for America Act.
The goal is to connect what we’re seeing on the survey deck with the bigger strategic decisions insurers and operators are making around coverage, capacity, and risk allocation as we move into 2026–2027.
We’ll also be sharing an inside look at the recent marine insurance claims trends we’ve been seeing firsthand, from machinery breakdowns and allisions to cargo-handling failures and offshore operational challenges.
We’ll highlight emerging technical patterns from real casework and discuss how these incident trends are beginning to shape underwriting posture across North America and further afield as well.
The technical presentation will be followed by a Q&A and finalised with a summary of last month’s high-cost marine casualties. Marine casualties are for the in person attendees only.
When: Tuesday 28th April, 9:30 AM EST
Where:
- In-person: 3rd Floor Event Space, 100 Wall Street, New York. Arrivals from 9:30 AM for coffee, breakfast and networking.
- Virtual: Zoom Webinar from 10:00 AM
Learning objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain how key geopolitical developments, trade shifts, and U.S. regulatory changes are influencing the regional marine insurance environment.
- Analyse how survey‑level technical findings can inform higher‑level underwriting decisions around coverage, capacity, and risk allocation for 2026–2027.
- Identify emerging technical patterns in recent marine insurance claims, including machinery breakdowns, allisions, cargo‑handling failures, and offshore operational challenges.
- Assess how these evolving incident and claims trends are shaping underwriting posture and risk appetite across North America and related markets.
Meet our speakers:
Muhammad Khan
Marine Engineer, ABL
Case Reports Presenter
ABL offers extensive experience in all shipping and maritime-related matters including marine casualties, salvage and wreck removal, hull and machinery, P&I claims, fixed object damage, pollution, personal injury, and ports and harbours, marine accident investigation amongst other areas. Our reputation covers work in ports & harbours, small craft, global shipping, defence and yachts.