Insurance Law Monthly

The correctness of the UK’s implementation of the EC’s Motor Insurance Directives has again come before the English courts, this time in Moore v Secretary of State for Transport [2007] EWHC 879 (QB). This was another action for damages..

In December 2006 the UK Treasury opened a consultation on the operation of the rules relating to the determination of the law applicable to insurance contracts. This was in response to an initiative from the EU, launched in December 2005, aimed at..

566935 BC Ltd (trading as West Coast Resorts) v Allianz Insurance Co of Canada [2006] BCCA 469, a decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in October 2006, confirms that, at least in Anglo-Canadian law, a peril of the sea is a fortuitous..

There is little point in pursuing a substantial claim against a defendant unless he has significant resources or he possesses liability insurance. The short question for Irwin J in Harcourt v FEF Griffin [2007] EWHC 1500 (QB) was whether the court..

Facultative reinsurance contracts containing the full reinsurance clause – as original and follow settlements – have long been assumed to have been written on a back to back basis, so that the liability of the reinsurers matches that of..